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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1243-W860

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1243-W860

Release Date: Sept. 14, 2019

发布日：2019年9月14日

Topic: Has the Second Cold War Begun? -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：第二次冷战开始了吗？ -- 魏京生

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Has the Second Cold War Begun?

-- Wei Jingsheng

It has been some days since the US think tanks and the media talked about the second Cold War. Recently, it suddenly rises and become the main theme, and the number has increased dramatically. Some people think it is inevitable, and some people think it doesn't look like it. Most people are talking as if the previous Cold War with the Soviet Union was a model. I think some of them are arming for a past battle and they are missing the point.

Some scholars have seen that this cold war is different from the Soviet Union, so it is inferred that this is not a cold war. Didn't they think that a cold war could have different modes? To adopt different strategies under different circumstances and for later generations to receive lessons from their predecessors and adjust strategies and tactics, is this not quite normal?

What is the lesson of the Soviet Union’s failure in the Cold War? In addition to the general dissatisfaction caused by political oppression, economic development was slow and it was difficult to meet the growing material needs of the people. Eventually this led to the people’s uprising and the betrayal within the party, so the Communist Party lost the one-party dictatorship’s authority and institutions.

The second generation of the Communist Party, represented by Deng Xiaoping, after accepting this lesson, adopted a strategy that was economic development takes precedence over other hard principles. In the first stage, developing one’s own economy was the hard principle; in the second stage, the hard principle was to surpass the enemy's economy. This second phase involves destroying the enemy's economy and dividing the enemy's interior.

So Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji made great contributions to the CCP. They used the loopholes of the World Trade Organization, which accelerated the development of the Chinese economy and undermined the economic development of the United States and the West. Promoting the decline of the enemy is an effective way of cold war since ancient times. More than two thousand years ago, the Han Dynasty began to prevent the export of copper and iron, and followed by the later strategies include the tea and horse exchanges in the markets that weakened and divided to disintegrate the nomads at the periphery.

What was Jiang Zemin’s and Zhu Rongji’s strategy? It was to use the basic characteristics of Western capitalists, who would sell anyone in order to make money. They used cheap labor created by low human rights as bait to encourage the capitalists to move their businesses and investments to China. As Deng Xiaoping predicted: let them invest their money here, and they will have to listen to our commands.

So beginning more than 20 years ago, the Communist Party and the world’s capitalist class formed a new alliance. The scholarly boast about the natural love of the capitalist class for democracy has become a modern joke. In the United States, those boosting the Communist Party and helping it to force politicians to side with the CCP’s main force are no longer the Chinese Embassy, but the big American corporate lobbyists and politicians, including the Presidents of the United States.

The weakness of the American democratic system has been well utilized by the Chinese Communist Party (i.e. CCP). The excessive influence of money in politics is the main reason for the failure of democracy in this cold war. Under the CCP's successful strategy, many principled politicians have either concealed their own conscience or lost their qualifications to participate in politics. China’s human rights and democracy situation is no longer cause for concern by the international community and has entered a period of low tide. While the oppressive exploitation of the Communist Party has entered a period of high tide. There has been a gradual erosion of Western democracy, which has caused global democracy to enter a period of retrogression.

The so-called Chinese model, that is, the market economy model under authoritarian political management, has become the envy of many third world countries. It has also become a development model that even many Western scholars admire. Whether freedom and democracy is better or an authoritarian dictatorship is better, has been an issue carefully discussed by unscrupulous scholars, which marks a deterioration of the ideological culture of all mankind.

Scholars have discussed this back and forth, and they forgot what the premise of their discussion was. What is the Cold War? Is only the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union called the Cold War? The definition of Cold War, which is deliberately ignored by unscrupulous scholars, is actually very straightforward. To defeat one’s enemy without warfare, that is called the Cold War. In modern parlance, the concept of Cold War is the opposite of hot war.

The CCP and the politicians bought by the capitalists did not launch wars, nor did they use the so-called means of hot warfare like artillery, warships, etc., and yet they defeated their enemies. This was the cold war. Under the misguidance of unscrupulous scholars, Americans think that the Communist Party is not an enemy. What the Communist Party advertises to their members and the people every day is that American imperialism and democratic freedom are their enemies.

The most frightening thing is not that you have a powerful enemy, but that you don’t know you have an enemy.

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(Written and recorded on Sept. 11, 2019. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on Sept. 12.)

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中文版

Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1243-W860

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1243-W860

Release Date: Sept. 14, 2019

发布日：2019年9月14日

Topic: Has the Second Cold War Begun? -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：第二次冷战开始了吗？ -- 魏京生

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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第二次冷战开始了吗？

-- 魏京生

美国的智库和媒体谈论第二次冷战，已经有些日子了。最近突然上升成为了主调，数量大增。一些人认为不可避免，一些人认为看上去不像。多数人都是以上一次和苏联的冷战作模本在议论，我认为有些刻舟求剑，不得要领。

一些学者看到了这一次冷战和苏联不同，因此推断这不是冷战。他们难道就没想到冷战可以有不同的方式吗？在不同的条件下采取不同的战略，后人接受前人的教训调整战略战术，这不是很正常嘛。

苏联在冷战中失败的教训是什么呢？除了政治压迫导致普遍不满外，就是经济发展迟缓，难以满足人民不断增长的物质需求，最终导致人民的起义和党内的背叛，共产党失去了一党专政的权威和体制。

以邓小平为代表的共产党第二代集团，接受这个教训后的策略就是，经济发展是优先于其它的硬道理。第一阶段，发展自己的经济是硬道理；第二阶段，超过敌人的经济是硬道理。这第二阶段包括破坏敌人的经济，分化敌人的内部。

于是江泽民和朱镕基为中共立下的大功劳，就是用世界贸易组织的漏洞，既加速发展了中国经济，又破坏了美国和西方的经济发展。促使敌人衰落，是自古以来冷战的有效手法。中国两千多年前的汉朝开始，就用铜铁不准出关，和之后的茶马互市等等策略削弱和分化瓦解了周边的游牧民族。

江泽民和朱镕基的策略是什么呢？就是利用西方资本家的基本特点，为了赚钱谁都可以出卖。以低人权优势制造的廉价劳动力为诱饵，促使他们把企业和投资搬到中国来。如邓小平所预言的那样：让他们把钱投到这儿来，他们就得听我们的。

于是从二十多年前开始，共产党和全世界资产阶级结成了新的联盟。学者们吹嘘的资产阶级天生热爱民主，成了个现代大笑话。在美国为共产党游说，帮助共产党逼迫政客们倾向中共的主力，不再是中国大使馆，而是大企业的游说公司和美国政客，包括美国的总统。

美国民主体制的弱点，被中共很好地利用了。金钱在政治中的过分影响，是导致民主在这场冷战中失败的主要原因。在中共的成功策略打击下，很多有良心、有原则的政治家，要么藏起了自己的良心；要么失去了参政议政的资格。中国的人权民主事业不再受到国际社会的关心，进入了被冷落的低潮期。而中国共产党的压迫剥削却进入了高潮期，包括逐渐蚕食西方的民主，造成全球民主也进入了倒退期。

所谓的中国模式，也就是专制政治管理下的市场经济模式，成了许多第三世界国家羡慕的榜样，也成为一大批西方学者推崇的发展模式。是民主自由好还是专制独裁好，居然成为无良学者们细心讨论的一个问题。这标志着全人类思想文化的倒退。

学者们讨论来讨论去，就忘记了他们讨论的前提是什么。什么叫做冷战？难道只有美苏之间的冷战叫做冷战吗？被无良学者们特意忽略的冷战的定义，其实非常简单直白：不用战争手段打败敌人，就叫做冷战。在现代词语体系中，冷战是相对于热战的一个概念。

中共和被资本家们收买的政客，没有发动战争，没有使用大炮军舰等等的所谓热战手段，就战胜了他们的敌人。这就是冷战。美国人在无良学者的误导下，以为共产党不是敌人。而共产党每天向它的党员和人民宣传的却是：美帝国主义和民主自由是他们的敌人。

最可怕的不是你有一个强大的敌人，而是你不知道你有敌人。

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