Let's take a look at the most sought-after sports in the United States, the first being basketball and the second boxing. Boxing is a sport that typically reflects the American style of emphasizing strength, straight forward, heavy punches, preferably KO (knockout win) opponents, everything is clear; while the Chinese, on the contrary, like to blur, to soften the hard, and I'm not looking for a KO you, but I'm going to dissolve all of your movements. The Chinese like to fight Tai Chi, and Tai Chi is indeed a higher art than boxing.

"The Belt and Road initiative reflects this thinking. In the process of the rise of all the great Powers in history, there has been a movement of globalization around their rise. This means that globalization has not been a consistent process from history to the present day, but has had its own globalization. The Roman Empire had its own globalization, and the Qin Empire had its own globalization. Each globalization was driven by each rising empire; each empire had a period of globalization associated with it, which reached a pinnacle during its ascendancy to its heyday. This globalization is at the same time limited by its own power, which is the maximum extent of its capacity and the farthest point that its means of transport can reach, and that is the end of its globalization.

Therefore, both the globalization of ancient Rome and the globalization of the Great Qin Empire can only be regarded today as a regionalization process of imperial expansion. The real globalization in modern history began with the British Empire, and the globalization of the British Empire was the globalization of trade. The United States continued a period of trade globalization after taking on the mantle of the British Empire, and the truly American form of globalization is the globalization of the dollar. This is also the globalization we are experiencing today. But I don't agree that China's "One Belt, One Road" today, which is in line with global economic integration, is tantamount to continuing to be in line with the globalization of the US dollar, and that's not the right way to look at it. As a rising power, the Belt and Road is the initial stage of China's globalization, or China's globalization. As a rising power, you must promote the globalization that surrounds you in the process of your rise.

The "One Belt, One Road" should be regarded as the best great power strategy that China has been able to put forward so far. Because it is a hedge against the eastward shift of American strategy. Some people would question this, hedging should be going in the opposite direction, can you still have a backward hedge? By the way, "One Belt, One Road" is a backward hedge of China's eastward shift of US strategy, I take the back toward you. Aren't you pressing in? I go west, neither to avoid you, nor to fear you, but very skillfully defuse you from the east to me to pressure this kind of pressure.

The "One Belt, One Road" is not a two-front, parallel strategy, but should be prioritized. In view of the fact that maritime power is China's shortcoming so far, "One Belt, One Road" should first choose to complete it from the land, which means that "One Road" should be a secondary direction, while "One Belt" should become the main direction of attack. That is to say, "One Road" should be a secondary direction of attack, while "One Belt" should become the main direction of attack. The fact that "One Belt" has become the main direction of attack means that we must re-conceptualize the role of the land forces. Some people say that the Chinese army is invincible, and this is true within the territory of China. The Chinese army is invincible, and no one can set foot on China's territory to fight a large-scale war, but the question is, does the Chinese army have the ability to go on an expedition?

The United States, in electing China as a rival and suppressing China, has chosen the wrong rival and the wrong direction. Because the real challenge to the United States in the future is not China at all, but the United States itself, and the United States will bury itself. Because it does not realize that a big era is coming, this era will push the financial capitalism it represents to the highest stage, let the United States fall from the peak, because on the one hand, the United States through the virtual economy, has eaten all the dividends of capitalism. On the other hand, the U.S. has pushed the Internet, big data, and cloud computing to the extreme through its proudly world-leading scientific and technological innovations, and these tools will ultimately become the main driving force in burying the financial capitalism that the U.S. represents.

（本文节选自《一带一路的顶层思维》，作者为中国著名军旅作家、军事理论家、评论家、空军少将）