Chapter 61 The challenges faced by cultural security and the thinking methods to deal with them

Cultural strategy is an important part of national grand strategy.Cultural construction is the eternal theme of a country's founding and strengthening.Attaching importance to cultural security not only requires attention in thought, but also requires practical measures and steps in action.The most important thing is how to enhance the cultural security awareness of the whole people and enhance the cultural immunity of the whole society.Since economic globalization, some powerful Western cultures have continued to expand. They are using strategic media deception, strategic cultural penetration, strategic public opinion encirclement, and strategic psychological attacks to launch a "cultural war" for the purpose of aggression, hoping to influence or even partially change other countries. The cultural system weakens its national cohesion.The "culture war" launched by a powerful culture is to gain a greater degree of cultural identity in the other country, so that the people of the country, especially the elite, accept, prefer, and yearn for Western values, ideas, lifestyles, and even society. system.Therefore, for China, which is on the path of peaceful development, the situation of maintaining national cultural security is severe.In order to effectively safeguard national economic interests and national cultural interests in an open world, we must recognize and pay attention to the following points: First, the West uses culture as a strategic weapon, Cultural conquest precedes military conquest, cultural destruction is more important than military destruction, and "invisible wars" are more lethal than visible wars.Second, culture can be used as a relatively independent strategic means, and under certain conditions, it can become an important means to achieve certain strategic goals.Third, the change of a person's value concept means the change of his thought, behavior and value orientation; the change of a country's subject value will definitely affect the change of its social nature and development direction.Therefore, the competition and contest of values ​​has always been an important front in domestic and international struggles.Fourth, war in the information age has expanded from plundering the enemy's land, resources, and wealth in the past to forcing the other party to obey its own system and accept its own values, so as to achieve control over a country, a regime, and control over a nation. The conquest of faith, spirit, will and psychology.Fifth, during the period of economic transformation, a country is particularly prone to value confusion and value deviation due to the diversity and complexity of world culture, especially the cultural infiltration of hostile forces.This may cause moral loss and a weak sense of law and order, which in turn will lead to a series of problems in terms of national cohesion and national spirit, which will have a great impact on the revival and rise of the nation.

Especially in the era of globalization and informationization, the news media has become an important means and strategic weapon in the competition between countries, and it is a "new army" of the country in peacetime.Today, a simple lie is more damaging than ever.In the era of globalization and informationization, the role of the media has been greatly enhanced, and public opinion is increasingly able to influence a country's decision-making process and decision-making results.The media constantly creates public opinion and shapes the image. Correct public opinion can promote peace and cooperation between countries and domestic stability, while incorrect public opinion can also disrupt the entire planet.The West's amplified propaganda of the "China threat theory" is an obvious example.They use the media to repeatedly publicize untrue things, and convey their favorable cognitions to others to create a "truth" that the world believes in.We used to say that power grows out of the barrel of a gun, but now power grows out of the camera.For example, when some western developed countries interfere in the elections of other countries, they use public opinion means to convey some inflammatory and false information to the nationals of the country, attack the current regime with public opinion, and support the opposition leaders to seize power.In the era of peaceful development, the media has become a real battlefield in the cultural field, a war without gunpowder.For example, under the constraints of international law, Western superpowers are often subject to various constraints when exercising force or imposing economic sanctions abroad.However, in terms of public opinion and propaganda, there are no constraints on attacking other countries.Therefore, decision-makers must understand media warfare from a strategic perspective, plan media warfare as an important part of strategic decision-making, and make careful deployment and comprehensive planning of news reports.This is not just a propaganda issue, but an issue that affects the security and stability of the entire society, as well as survival and development, and must be given great attention.

In national competition, culture is an invisible war without gunpowder.Cultural strategy and tactics are a special kind of security strategy, whose purpose is to prevent the impact and change of the culture of power on the values, behaviors and judgment standards of the people of the country.With the increasing trend of economic globalization, the competition in the cultural field will become more intense.We must not take this lightly, and must take strong countermeasures.At the same time, we should also see that in the reality of international politics, the application of cultural power has become an important choice for dealing with international relations.Cultural exchanges and integration have strengthened the interdependence between countries, and it is possible to increase the possibility of seeking common interests. We should promote it, make culture a bond of communication, and avoid alienation as a means of attack.

The world today is in an era of economic globalization, political multi-polarization, social modernization, and cultural pluralism.Although there are factors of confrontation among them, the means and methods of cultural communication are increasingly diversified and secularized, and the collision, communication and exchange of different cultures are becoming more and more frequent.For this reason, if China wants to achieve a cultural rise, it must promote China to the world while absorbing the world's outstanding cultural achievements, otherwise it will lose its inherent advantages and miss any opportunities.

If China wants to achieve great rejuvenation, it cannot do without an open, healthy, and internationalized great-power ambition, great-power spirit, great-power consciousness, and great-power demeanor.Only with great country ambition, great country spirit, great country awareness, and great country demeanor, can we be open-minded, tolerant, calmly face the ideology and culture of all countries and nations in the world today, absorb all kinds of things, and learn from others; With an open mind and a forward-looking mind, we will solve the problems left over from history and the international disputes that are constantly cutting and resolving chaos one by one.Even for noises and noises that interfere with China's development, we must analyze them in detail and treat them differently.

We should think carefully about anything that makes some sense, and listen to remonstrance; if we have doubts or misunderstandings, we should also explain it in a simple way, and explain it in simple terms; Take it to heart.In any case, we must concentrate on construction and development with one heart and one mind.It is an extremely glorious and great cause for China to take the road of peaceful development.Mao Zedong said: "Our cause is just. A just cause cannot be broken by any enemy." What's more, we can also use noise and noise to temper ourselves, sharpen ourselves, and strengthen ourselves.

In the wave of globalization, China needs to strengthen its main culture and national spirit, guard its own cultural boundaries, and purify its own historical and cultural heritage, so as not to lose itself in the integration into the world.In particular, we cannot deny our advanced culture and glorious past. On February 10, 2007, a well-known general scholar published an article in Outlook News Weekly, criticizing some textbooks for weakening revolution and war, and proposed to revitalize the soul of the country and the soul of the army.This fully reflects a general's strong sense of urgency, as well as his special vigilance for national security and deep concern for the future of the nation.History textbooks determine the memory of history for the next generation, as Foucault said: "Memory is one of the important factors in the struggle... Whoever controls people's memory controls the pulse of people's behavior... Therefore, the possession of memory , to control it, to manage it, is a matter of life and death." So we cannot "unilaterally 'disarm' culturally and ideologically".Every son and daughter who strives for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation should have this sense of urgency.We are not very strong today. We need to remember history, follow the example of the martyrs, and meet the difficulties and challenges on our way forward with high-spirited fighting spirit.Patriotic education is a compulsory course in both Eastern and Western countries; the soul of the country, the soul of the army, the soul of the nation, and patriotism are the eternal themes of national education, let alone a nation that has been invaded, divided and ravaged by imperialist powers.Although the world has entered the era of globalization, wars have never stopped.As far as our nation is concerned, we must vigorously strengthen the education of the soul of the country and the soul of the army. This is the soul of a nation that will always stand among the nations of the world.The strong sense of urgency of a country and a nation and the high fighting spirit of its soldiers are in themselves important soft power of the country and the military.Therefore, in the process of realizing China's rise and great rejuvenation, it is crucial to emphasize that the Chinese nation will always maintain a high fighting spirit.