author Lau Ho Fung

A truly brilliant strategy does not see strategy, but rather, the line of the road. Taoist behavior is also, for not to compete, the world and can not compete!

Those who are good at war do not talk about war, but about peace; those who are good at strategy do not talk about strategy, but about the way of peace. Mr. Xi2013In 2009, it was proposed to build the "New Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "New Silk Road Economic Belt".21The concept of the "Century Maritime Silk Road" is intended to build a "community of interests", "community of destiny" and "community of responsibility" based on mutual political trust, mutual economic benefit and mutual cultural success. "The goal and guiding principle of the idea is "harmony", but if we talk about strategy, it is full of self-contradictory rhetoric full of utilitarianism, which will inevitably cause people to misunderstand its inconsistency and think that it is competing with the United States for the leadership of the world. Whether our external expression of the message is appropriate, and the United States of America's provocative attitude towards China can be seen. We must know what Laozi said: the way of the sage is to do but not to fight.

As a cultural power, China's economic belt and road should carry the distinctive imprint of Chinese civilization. For 2,000 years, the Silk Road has been a peaceful path for China to export its civilization and virtues; today, 2,000 years later, it is a historical reproduction of Chinese civilization and virtues. It is accurately positioned to build "Peaceful Eurasia and Africa". This is not a vulgar strategy, but a path of action. This is not only a mutually beneficial economic belt and road, but also a win-win cultural belt and road; it is not only a community of interests and destiny, but also a community of diverse and complementary cultures and values, all of which are aimed at creating a community of world peace and order. All utilitarian communities are inevitably short-lived. Only the deep integration of culture and value cognition on the basis of the reality and material foundation of the economic community can fully realize President Xi's "people-to-people communication". Only through the "people's hearts and minds" can we develop a long-lasting community of destiny, promote the cause of peace in Europe, Asia and Africa, and enhance the well-being of the world. In this way, the king is not the king but the king. Is this not comparable to American hegemony?

The Cultural Roots of Anglo-American Dominance in the World Order

Britain, as an island nation smaller than Japan and slightly larger than Hunan, once dominated the world as the Sunset Empire. On what basis?

The Industrial Revolution in Britain was made possible by the invention of the steam engine, which converted the principle of steam into mechanical energy, involving huge and complex mechanical mold-making capabilities, smelting of raw materials, and other aspects. The key to mold making was the use of mathematical logic, also known as formal logic. Since then, the electrical revolution, the information revolution, all rely on the use of mathematical and formal logic, designing a variety of sophisticated models, combined into machines and equipment, computer arithmetic principles and so on are inseparable from it. Formal logic was so powerful that it became synonymous with science. Even the humanities also use mathematical models to study economic and social phenomena, such as mathematical economics. Unfortunately, people only understand its advantages, but mostly do not understand its shortcomings. Gödel's incompleteness theorem explains that it is characterized by incompleteness. In other words, it is "incomplete". It disproves that dialectical logic is a perfect structure. Formal logic can guide things towards refinement, but the more refined the model is, the more confined it is, and it can only solve local problems under relatively static conditions, so it is locally effective, finds local truths, and cannot solve the problem of holistic and infinite domains. Dialectical logic is the opposite. Therefore, dialectical logic masters formal logic, which is the manifestation of scientific completeness. Dialectical logic has become the new engine leading the world scientific community. It is also the basic science where this Chinese cultural renaissance contributes to the world.

Formal logic is applied in various fields; in the field of artifacts, it is a machine harnessed by human beings; in the field of socio-economics, it has become a monstrous monster of cyclical differentiation and deformity, which the West has not been able to harness to this day. The methodology and logical tools studied in Western economics are mathematical and formal logic, which can only solve problems in the microeconomic field and cannot study macroeconomics. Therefore, Western economics has been to the present day, microeconomics and macroeconomics there is a logical inconsistency. The so-called principle of distribution by merit is precisely the principle that only local benefits and short-term benefits are paramount, while overall and long-term benefits are disregarded; in other words, capitalism only solves the problem of efficiency, not fairness. The mindset and value orientation of giving priority to localized interests have led to a society where wolves and sheep are inundated, where the wolves dominate everything and the sheep are devoured and oppressed. This is the reason for cyclical political party changes, cyclical economic crises, and cyclical aesthetic crises. In terms of social model, it is the monster of capitalism criticized in the eyes of Marx.

Until the United States dominated the world order in World War II, the basic rule of the international order dominated by the United Kingdom was that through foreign geographic expansion and market expansion, the weak and small countries were reduced to colonies, and the big and weak countries were reduced to semi-colonies, and the so-called imperialism was foreign wars, and the root of the problem was in the proliferation of the formal-logical way of thinking, which formed a monstrous monster of monstrous imbalance. Whether it was France under Napoleon or the era of Hitler and Mussolini, it was full of the muscles of the strong and terrorist attacks on the weak.

At the end of World War II, the United States replaced Britain as the world's number one capitalist country. The United States is still at heart an upgraded version of Britain's foreign expansion. The way of thinking and value perception, the loss of introspection has not changed. It has only changed into a world policeman's outfit and used more smoke and mirrors.70United States in the early 1900s due to its overexpansion of foreign wars up to the1991Before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 2007, the United States was only the leader of the capitalist countries, not yet the global leader. The collapse of the USSR has made the United States the world's only superpower.

21The rise of contemporary art in China at the turn of the century was yet another successful strategy of Western artistic colonization of China. It not only consolidated the West's aesthetic interests in time, despite the fact that the West had already deconstructed its own aesthetic traditions and abandoned the subject of spiritual aesthetics. At the same time, it effectively and successfully marginalized the position of local Chinese art. A group of Western cultural elites have been able to successfully enter the system in a way that allows them to make better messes. Even better, they also made a fortune in China with beautiful women and flowers. Although the means and tools of foreign expansion have changed, the basic method remains the same. A wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf, and still wants to eat people.

Unfortunately, after almost thirty years of history, how many of China's mainstream elites have been able to fully understand the West's cultural expansion and trap layout? It can be said that as long as China's cultural renaissance does not really stand in the world, China's innovative academics do not have the ability to break through the bondage of the Western academic paradigm, and do not have the ability and opportunity to influence the neighboring countries and the world, China is still waiting to die in the framework of Western cultural colonization, and the Chinese cultural elites are still in the bondage of the long poisoned imbalance of the mindset and the perception of the value of the numbness or struggling. The tragedy of peaceful evolution and national disintegration will be unavoidable.

Why did Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere fail?

The East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere refers to the political concept of confederation proposed by Japan in World War II, which aimed to establish "a mutually supportive relationship among the three countries of China, Japan and Manchuria in the areas of politics, economy, and culture," and to build a political system that would be based on the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere as a whole, and a "new order of coexistence and co-prosperity" between Japan, East Asia and Southeast Asia as its goal. The aim was to build a political system based on the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" as a whole and a "new order of coexistence and co-prosperity" between Japan, East Asia and Southeast Asia.

The reason for the failure of Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is that it chose the wrong method and path to achieve its goal in the first place. The realization of the Co-Prosperity Sphere by means of war and force was a mistake in method. War is a kind of the most last resort of self-loss of three thousand practices. Will path target selected for the great country of China, the Japanese military department audience with the emperor clamor March can destroy China is the error of quick success.

Japan's construction of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, not to the co-prosperity of cultural output first, but naked force, which is a big mistake. Japan also collected a group of Chinese cultural elites who stayed in Japan, secretly support specializing in singing ugliness to China, only criticism, lack of construction, only black and evil, lack of sublime. Then they invaded the Middle Kingdom, and then to worship Confucius and Mencius cultural guardianship to collect the hearts of the Chinese people. However, in the end, it is just a quick fix, and how can one rule China with such techniques when one lacks the systematic function of cultural creation?

This Japanese tactic is still being used unspokenly in contemporary times. Many media elites, economic elites and political elites can see the shadow of Japanese forces operating behind the scenes. However, an era sinks because there are too few sober people. When the former Soviet Union collapsed, were there not still a large number of high-ranking bureaucrats celebrating their birthdays on idle fishing vacations?

Therefore, a cultural power is incomparable to any military power. Culture is extremely martial. Attacking the heart is the best. Good culture can enter the saints. A bad culture can become a demon. Japan to engage in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, if the late half century, learning from the United States of America's cultural colonization practices, in order to inherit the residual gas of the European Renaissance, from France to grab the location of the world's art centers, but also open to absorb the world's elite immigrants, and then through the establishment of academic norms and standards system, engage in cultural cultivation and export, gradually from the way of thinking and value perception of year after year to seize the other country's soul of the nation's resources and psychological space, naturally, there will always be a day such as a certain Li famous economic economy. Space, naturally, there will always be a day as a famous economist surnamed Li said, "Our popularity is finally up.

Obviously, Japan is after all a small cultural country, and cultural fetishism has been copied from ancient times. Its chrysanthemums and swords are logical paradoxes and value paradoxes, and can not be like the Tai Chi diagram, chrysanthemums like swords, swords like chrysanthemums. Today's China, similar geometry?

Cultural "Belt and Road" and Economic "Belt and Road"

The Cultural Belt and Road is a worldwide cultural renaissance movement initiated in neighboring countries with the revival of Chinese culture with socialist characteristics as the backbone. Its essence is to complete the modernization, globalization and innovative reconstruction of the core wisdom of Chinese culture so that it can become the cultural foundation for the realization of a common world, and a guarantee of the cultural values necessary for the promotion of permanent world peace.

2013surname Nian9moon7In an important speech delivered at the Nazarbayev University of Kazakhstan on March 1, 2012, President Xi Jinping for the first time put forward a good initiative to strengthen policy communication, road connectivity, smooth trade, currency circulation and people-to-people exchanges, and to jointly build a "Silk Road Economic Belt". Subsequently, it once again put forward the beautiful vision of neighboring countries building a "community of interests" and a "community of destiny".

The building of a "community of interests" and "community of destiny" requires a change of mind and heart in the way of thinking and the perception of values, which is different from formal logic, but which is also capable of mastering formal logic.

Eastern and Western cultures differ greatly in their ways of thinking and value perception. Oriental cultural thinking emphasizes the overall dialectical attributes, accepts contradictory relationships, and pursues a comprehensive structure of contradiction and unity. This kind of thinking can form the pattern of grand unification, which explains the historical pattern of political, economic, ethical, social and other aspects of Chinese culture that has not been broken with grand unification; Western cultural thinking focuses on local analytical attributes, excludes contradictory relationships, and pursues the unitary structure of consistency. This kind of thinking is contrary to the pattern of grand unity in the East, and it can form an independent and free pattern, which reveals why Western culture has a broken flow and discrete political, economic, ethical, social and other historical patterns.

Although, Eastern culture also has formal logic and analytical thinking, and Western culture also has dialectical logic tradition, but they are not the mainstream form in their own cultural system. The differences between the two ways of thinking and value perception have gradually evolved into different styles of civilization in the course of history. The clash of civilizations is rooted in the logical way of thinking and value perception. Behind these two different ways of thinking and value perceptions are different methodologies, concepts of truth, and cosmic ontologies.

The crisis of the unsustainable development of mankind is due to the imbalance of the cycle of society and nature triggered by the Western culture's way of thinking and value perception, which only takes into account the local but not the whole, and only takes into account the benefits but not the fairness. Although the West has repeatedly tried to correct its mistakes and constantly synthesize, at the bottom, Western civilization has gone to the bottom. It is in dire need of a Chinese cultural renaissance to regain the light of truth. And through the education of truth to guide them, master them, so that they can get out of the crisis and create world peace.

It is in this sense that China has moved from a country that wasUAs a developing country encircled by the "One Belt, One Road", a world-wide cultural renaissance movement, is urgently needed to break away from the traditional social rules of zero-sum games! It is an indispensable and important complement to China's economic "One Belt, One Road". Only through the dialectical unification of the material and the spiritual can we coordinate and truly go out and realize the Chinese dream of "Peaceful Eurasia and Africa" for the benefit of the world.