The strategic focus shifting on the Asia-Pacific region means that the United State has targeted China as its main objective of its global strategy in the current situation, pushing China to the position where it has nowhere to retreat or hide, but only accepts the truth. From the historical experience of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, there must be murder accompanied behind the containment. In Africa, the United States excludes China's economic interests and political influence; in the Middle East, it controls China’s energy throat; and in the neighboring countries of China, it seeks and supports a force to contain China. It even directly ruins the key to the security and the development of China in East Asia. Together with internal penetration, evolution and division of China, what the U.S. did is not simply containment with a purpose of stopping expansion, but a curb with the purpose of manipulation or even choke.
There are only two ways for China to choose: Either withstanding the external pressure, taking an independent place in the multi-centered world pattern in the future; or following the step of the Soviet Union, and experiencing the survival ravages. The sharpness of the struggle is self-evident, but with 5,000 years’ cultural heritage and 63 years’ revolution achievements, China will be able to overcome the challenges.
Read the Chinese version: 中国必须也完全能够顶住压力, source: People's Daily Overseas Edition, author: Ren Weidong
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