Lianhe Zaobao published on October 4th, Guo Liangping, a senior researcher at the East Asia Research Institute of Singapore, Guo Liangping's article The rise can only be a universal country , and propose a key question: Can China become the real world country?
The author believes that China's soft power is inadequate.How can the accumulation of excellent Chinese traditional culture in 5000 years become inherently deficiencies?The author does not give a convincing answer, or want to say that China has not been colonized by Western culture, or is it that China ’s atheistic secular society has caused the unable to form Western universal culture?
Secondly, the author said that the shortcomings of ideology also limited China to become a real world.The author lives overseas, of course, it is not sensitive to Xi Jinping's cultural ideas.In fact, the proposal of the concepts of modern civilization and human destiny community of the Chinese nation, the responsibility of creating a new form of human civilization has already surpassed the philosophy of fighting capitalist in the past, emphasizing that one system is not a system replace another system, but "twoCombination.Not only is China not characteristic or alternative, it advocates the common value of all human beings that tolerate the universal value of the West.
Once again, the article extended Joseph Nai's soft power to undertake the law of "soft power" to save Paul Kennedy's "rise and fall" law of the year, cheering for the US hegemony, and seeing the future prospects of China.Soft power -hard power two -point method itself is not too scientific.It's like when you put salt into the water, where is salt?Where is water?The author's worldview is dual -opposite: the advantages of Chinese culture -dross, hard power -soft power, Chinese -the United States (West), philosophical logic -universal logic, etc. This obviously does not conform to the cultural characteristics of China's symbiosis.
The article is based on the lack of China's reference in the West. It is worth pondering to reflect on the world of modern historical experience in the West, reflecting the general thoughts of overseas Chinese: Although China's hard power is rising, soft power is not as good as others.Although the author uses an "open civilization country" and other positive expressions, it is still full of prejudice against China.For example, it is believed that "four self -confidence" has become a negative asset; claiming that "Chinese culture has advantages and dross, and it is also criticized to criticize the dross when promoting the advantages, otherwise it will quietly occupy people's ideological positions with the expansion of the advantages."There is a warning.
The article is full of Western logic, and the past legends of the West are tailored to China today, inferring the world of tomorrow.The course of investigating the rise of the great power can be clearly discovered that the author's logic is caused by the reasons: the rise can only be the universal power, or the universal banner after the rise of the great country?
Guo Wenqian's consciousness means that although the United States has such problems, China cannot replace the United States.China can only be the rise of philosophical powers and cannot become a universal power like the United States.
This actually represents the views of a considerable number of overseas Chinese, which may also be a reflection of Western views, and even a large resonance in China.What the article really expresses is that since China cannot become a real world country and cannot replace the United States, it is better to cooperate with the United States to help the United States maintain hegemony.The article claims: "Another challenge in China is that once the United States' comparison national strength drops to a certain extent, it will be full of suffocation and become a selfish and greedy ordinary country in behavior -In particular, this is not good for the two countries and the world, and the danger of war will greatly increase.
"Famous and non -heaven, it must be actually."The author's thinking is Western -style, and the concept is naturally Western -style. Among them, it is representative that it does not recognize the essence of the concept of "universal".The concept of "universal" comes from Christianity of theism.In the fifth century, the East Roman Empire's Constantinople shepherd (bishop) was honored as "the head of the world."At that time, the original "universal" was OECumenical, which both had the meaning of "global scope" and the meaning of "all Christianity".The "universal value" of modern significance originated from the Enlightenment. Due to the characteristics of anti -religion in the Enlightenment, although it also accepts the concept of universal, this secular "universal" generally uses the word Universal to show the difference between Christianity and ChristianityEssenceThe spiritual achievement of the bourgeois revolution is marked by the human rights declaration in 1789, which is to replace religious universal values with political universal values.
The modern scientific revolution strengthens the central and superiority of the universal value of human universal human beings in the Western scientific revolution. It is representative that Newtonian is the law of gravity.It was not until nearly 300 years later that Einstein's theory of relativity only set out the boundaries of Newton's law -the so -called universal law of gravity, but it only plays a role in the macro world.
Therefore, universal value is not an objective truth.Now the historical mission of the so -called "universal value" in the West seems to fall on the heads of the Chinese people.Traditionally, the three types of cultural coexistence of Confucianism and Taoism do not have the concept of "universalism", but only the concept of "the world".In the Western -led international public opinion, China is always scolded as "alternative".The world center theory established by Jia Ptolemy).
Looking at the moon at different orientations on the earth, you naturally see the different shapes of the moon, but of course the same moon is seen in different countries.What I think is Yuanyue and others see losses, obviously they are the Ptolemy cosmic views centered on their own.In the same way, I think that they represent universal value, and others are not universal. This is the Western central theory.
If it is not in modernizing the modernization process in modernization, dominating globalization, universal value theory will not be born in the world.In details, there are three major dramas in universal theory:
One is that it is inevitable.Europe leads the world, originated from the industrial revolution.This is quite accidental.Taking it as the inevitable history, belief in the "linear evolutionary theory" of history, and even adhering to the social Darwinism, it will produce the theory of "Li Joseph's Mystery" and "Large Diversion" (Editor's Note: Lee Joseph's Mystery, Needham Thesis, refers to why science and industryThe revolution did not happen in modern China; Diversion, Great DiverGence, referring to pseudo -propositions such as West in the 19th century due to overcoming growth restrictions).
The second is to say the place as the world.Europeans advocating universal value are things after the Enlightenment.The local values of Europe are global and advanced, and they are completely deceiving.
The third is to say the short -term as eternal.Who history 500 years ago?The world's leading world is even shorter than the Zhou Dynasty in China, but universal theories have packed this short -leading packaging into eternal. It seems that this is the case, and it is always the case.
Guo Wen's logic is naturally a fabrication of these three dramas to the future of China.
(the author is a professor at the School of International Relations of Renmin University of China)
