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The concept of "new cold war" has recently appeared in public opinion at home and abroad, corresponding to this. Others put forward the slogan "The United States is our main enemy." It can be said that both this concept and slogan are not conducive to our current great struggle, because they lack the analysis of contradictions, cover up the facts and trends that are undergoing serious divisions in the Western world and the United States, and obscure the real object of our great struggle in the new era, which is Wall Street. international capital. If we repeat the mistakes of the Soviet Union and accept or acquiesce in this concept and slogan, we will unconsciously place China in the unnecessary "Western camp" and the opposite of the entire American nation. This will objectively violate Comrade Mao Zedong's criticism. The mistake of "'driving fish for the abyss and driving sparrows for the bush' drove the 'thousands and thousands' and the 'mighty' to the enemy's side, only to win the enemy's applause", and thus forgotten and then ruined the current benefits. China’s diplomatic advantage of “our friends are all over the world”.
The endgame should end with the master, and the loser can be flipped with a stupid two. Just when the Soviet Union "seemed to be sweeping over everything in its path," it fell into the Cold War drama of Ronald Reagan, a former actor, who "didn't play by the rules." Kissinger said thankfully: "When the international status of the United States seemed to have reached its lowest point, communism began to disintegrate." Then he lamented: "There has never been a world power that has lost without fighting, just like this. Quickly and completely torn apart. "Learning from the past is a guide for future events."
It must be pointed out that the world politics of the new era is not only a continuation of the imperialist era pointed out by Lenin, but also has its own unique characteristics. The "9·11" incident and the "Occupy Wall Street" movement showed that in today's world, the contradiction between the north and the south has intensified; compared with Lenin's era, today's "oppressive nations" have also been severely divided within themselves, and are accelerating from southern countries to the north. The country spreads. To be precise, the main opponent of China's diplomacy in the new era is no longer ordinary national capitalism, but financial-usury imperialism with the characteristics of monopoly capital. Under these new historical conditions, we must use Mao Zedong's "Three Worlds" theory to understand the international situation facing the new era, and use Lenin's theory of imperialism to distinguish the imperialist "United States" as the base camp of monopoly capital from the "United States" as a nation-state. "distinguish them to identify the real enemies facing China's diplomacy in the new era. Only in this way can we avoid losing our way in the complicated and ever-changing international chaos, and even make the mistake of "walking a hundred miles only half a mile"; only in this way can we formulate a scientific Marxist-Leninist guideline diplomatic route
