Chapter 433 Looking to the future: Who is the next superpower?
Su Su asked: "After the US hegemony retreats from Europe and East Asia, the world pattern will inevitably undergo tremendous changes. China will inevitably be the world's top. So who will be the next rising power, or superpower?"
Wang Qiang said in shock: "I have no objection to the rise of a strong country, where does the superpower come from?"
Su Su smiled and said, "Brother Qiang, this problem must be clearly understood. In 1992, when the Soviet Union fell, the United States did not understand who was the next superpower, so there was a serious strategic misjudgment. In fact, the United States' idea was the same as Brother Qiang, which was the arrival of a world pattern of one and many strong people. China either collapsed when the global communism collectively declined, or rose to become an ordinary power, at most twice as strong as India. When the time was right, cut China and suppress it, but never expected that China would threaten its position, and even overturn its overlord position in just 20 years."
Wang Qiang was happy: "The necessary conditions for a superpower are to have a large land, a large resource, a large population, and a good system!"
Su Su smiled and said, "Yes, four major factors! The United States has made two misjudgments on resources and systems. How much Chinese resources are? Indeed, but the most critical strategic resources, oil, food, and steel, are indeed controlled by others. Is the Chinese system good? The collective failure of communism tells everything."
"I just mentioned the strategic resource dispute, just talk about the system. In 1979, the designer took over China's formal reform and opening up. With China's public ownership system, any resource on this 9.6 million square kilometers of land can be centrally dispatched. With China's state-owned land system, there are no obstacles to the large-scale land acquisition planning. Then the Mao era left behind two relatively complete industrial systems. Then, as I said just now, China's giant state-owned enterprises are all divine beasts that share their health. This super high blood volume makes the international competitiveness of Chinese state-owned enterprises terrifying!"
"So, when the designer took over the seemingly ragged China, he was actually leading the richest consortium in the world. No big family of the Federal Reserve can compare to China. China's victory in the past 30 years is a victory that crushed countless fingers with a fist! In contrast, the US system based on speculative finance as the main body has long been predicted by Marx as stupid and absurd. The war economic model advocated by the Shepherds has not escaped the fate of "military soldiers and wars will perish". This is not an online game to level up."
Wang Qiang felt very refreshed: "This is the style of a superpower. I haven't seen anyone in the world with this style!"
Su Su smiled and said, "The United States has the greatest possibility of returning the king!"
Wang Qiang said in shock: "Didn't it mean that the United States is beyond salvation?"
Su Su smiled and said, "In fact, there have been powerful people who have said that the future of the United States can only be socialism. Now they have begun to control the military and have begun to attack the local tyrants. It is just that they cannot be destroyed or established, and they are only one step away from socialism."
Wang Qiang was simply incredible: "But Jianguo himself is a big capitalist?"
Su Su smiled and said, "You can do socialism with American characteristics. Otherwise, how can you do railways and high schools? Land acquisition alone can make the United States achieve nothing. Why can't the United States build highways and railways for so many years? To put it bluntly, it threatens the interests of aviation tycoons. However, the air transportation capacity can only be used as a logistics service? Can it transport mineral resources in the hinterland of the United States?"
Wang Qiang frowned: "Since the threat of the United States is still so great, can China still win and help him build infrastructure?"
Su Su laughed: "Invincible foreign patients, the country will always die! Isn't the American financial system so exciting that it's just that he is so proud of his invincible? However, Brother Qiang's idea of taking advantage of his illness is the same as the United States in 1992. Although the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States still regarded the number one threat as Russia. This strategic misjudgment is a big problem. However, locking in the number one competitor is indeed a very important thing. The most tangled and uncomfortable thing is the United Kingdom during World War II."
"At that time, Britain was facing the rising Germany on the other side of the strait. Behind Germany was the Soviet Union, the second industrial country in the world, and behind Britain was the United States, the world's number one industrial country! How did Britain play at that time? Historically, various criticisms of the British Prime Minister Chamberlain at that time, saying that his appeasement policy towards Germany led to Germany's growth, all kinds of weakness and incompetence, and that a good hand of good cards was not as good as Li Hongzhang of the late Qing Dynasty!"
Wang Qiang laughed: "Brother thinks it too! Li Hongzhang lost power and humiliated the country and paid money when facing a great power that he could not afford to offend, but he did not throw away his territory. The sun was not set in the UK, but the territory was completely gone."
Su Su smiled and said, "Even if Churchill takes office in advance, it is impossible to play. The reason why Germany's rise is that the international capital behind it is causing trouble, especially the big creditors like France must die and cannot be justified. It can only be said that Britain does not have the fate of being a superpower! His ability to be a global hegemon for hundreds of years is just a precursor to the steam industry revolution, the result of technology leading step by step, and the accidental development of civilization."
Wang Qiang smiled and said, "Brother thinks it is!"
Su Su smiled and said, "So as soon as the war begins, the core political and economic circle of Britain will be blown up, and the result will be a small country without any hinterland or buffer."
"Compared with China, the French-German coalition forces in the Eight-Nation Alliance fought westward to Shanxi? When the Great Wall was blocked, the French-German coalition forces died here and were injured several thousand, ten times higher than the casualties of the decisive battle that landed in Tianjin. How could they destroy the country? Not to mention that the Japanese Itagaki Division, which was known as invincible a few decades later, suffered a great loss here again."
Wang Qiang sighed: "So, Britain's weakness is here, so Germany doesn't accept it, so it's going to mess with him?"
Su Su smiled and said, "Before the Eight-Nation Alliance is finished, the German Labor Division fought across half of the earth. Is it just a great tour of the Great Wall? Germany's goal is to build a large colony. After this battle, German commander Valsey selected some Chinese aged 18 to 60 to conduct a physical fitness test for the recruits. It turned out that the Chinese were not much worse than the Germans, and they were not the so-called sick husbands of East Asia at all."
"So I wrote a letter to the German Emperor William II to respond to the situation. The German Emperor did not believe it, so I sent an investigation team to investigate. The result was that there was an additional conclusion that the Chinese were more hardworking than the Europeans! According to this conclusion, Germany found that the cause of China was only the decay of the ruling class. It was impossible to turn China into a colony with this little force. Then it would be better to stop when it was better. It would be cost-effective to blackmail the corrupt high-level Qing dynasties. After this battle, Germany had already realized that China had the potential of a future superpower."
Wang Qiang heard it for a long time and was a little anxious: "Who is Germany after talking for a long time? Who is the next superpower after the United States?"
Su Su smiled and said, "Yes, after talking about Germany for a long time, who do Brother Qiang thinks it is?"
Wang Qiang was stunned and said in surprise: "Is it Germany?"
Su Su smiled and said, "Looking at the changes in the world, no one has the potential to be a superpower than Germany!"
Wang Qiang was shocked: "I'll just go! How big is he? How big is he? How big is he?"
Chapter completed!