“Illiteracy” at Harvard | Blog Post

Prior to this, Blinken pointed out that the Taiwan Strait issue was not China’s “internal affairs”, which had already drawn severe criticism from the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Spokesman Mao Ning said, “Blinken needs to take a serious history lesson. Taiwan has been an inalienable part of China’s territory since ancient times. Partly, the one-China principle is a recognized basic norm of international relations.” At the same time, she recalled to the US the three joint communiqués on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the US, “The political commitments made by the US to China are clear in black and white.”

Blinken studied social studies at Harvard University in 1984. After graduation, he transferred to Columbia University Law School and obtained a J.D. Even a little embarrassing for Columbia? However, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who did not receive a degree from Harvard University, may not have the same level of vision and knowledge as Blinken. He was asked about the US technology sanctions against China on the “Financial Times” program, and he responded very rationally: “Well, I don’t think the US will ever be able to successfully prevent China from having powerful chips.” The Biden administration’s technology containment will only force China spends time and a lot of money making its own chips. “Although the United States can make money by selling chips for 5 to 10 years, China’s mass production can also catch up fairly quickly, and the United States’ sanctions against China may not be beneficial.”

In addition to talking about China, Gates also talked about the United States, and even Sino-US relations. “I hope that the United States and China can get along better… The most important relationship in the world is the relationship between the United States and China. I am disappointed and worried about the evolution of the relationship between the two countries in the past few years.” Finally, Gates made an important point , “The influence of the United States in global governance is shrinking compared with the end of World War II. The United States must gradually adapt to the fact that it is no longer the only superpower.”

Harvard University is fortunate to have Gates as an alumnus. However, Blinken is not just a “historical illiterate” in any way. The core is that he is “civilized illiterate”. question.

Xinhuanet reported that Blinken did not understand the history of the article: “At the Paris Peace Conference after the end of the First World War, the then US President Wilson, who sang the high-profile “righteousness over power”, finally betrayed China.” At that time, the United States in the name of justice To establish a new international order, however, this order is that the United States “joins forces with Britain and France to demand that China, a victorious country, meet Japan’s unreasonable demands and transfer the pre-war German privileges in the Shandong Peninsula to Japan.” If so, in the next hundred years, the United States will form the civilization ecology of this century with its super national power and selective justice. However, starting from the Paris Peace Conference, China is determined to carry out national rejuvenation. Finally, in this era, we put forward the Chinese-style A new mileage of modern civilization.

Blinken is ignorant of the progress of civilization dominated by China, and is still tossing about the “Wilsonianism” of a hundred years ago. He calls it “illiterate” rather than “historical illiterate”. This semantics should be more accurate.