It has been three years since the pandemic, and another three years since the pandemic. Do you ever feel like a world away?

Moreover, America's chosen sons should also be aware that once the empire declines, not to mention the collapse of the world, it will also be the coming of rain and great changes in the world.

Americans used to have delusions of persecution and thought that our country must follow the old path of Thucydides' Trap and embark on the path of great power confrontation. However, in the past two years, they seem to have slowly come to their senses: How dare I drag my illness to maintain the dignity of the world's police, while Lao and China are already playing the role of world judge? !

To be honest, Lao Mei found that he didn’t know how to play this track played by Lao Zhong, and it was not written in the thin history books.

The role of the United States has been very fixed for decades: carrying a gun around the world and beating anyone who disobeys. On the surface, they maintain order, but behind the scenes it's all about business.

However, as a typical capitalist country, in these businesses, the rich are capital and the poor are the country.

As the war raged on, the treasury was emptied, friends dispersed, and the reputation was ruined.

What about China? It's a completely different path.

We bring resources, production capacity, capital, and technology all over the world to seek cooperation. The Belt and Road Initiative supports half of China's foreign trade and has become the largest trading partner of more than 150 countries. If you cooperate sincerely, I will invest and build for you. We can make money together, the local economy will improve, and our market will also grow.

So what should you do if you encounter those thorny spots and bags under your eyes? That's easy to handle. We can't be like the Americans who always punch at each other, which is disgraceful.

To use an inappropriate analogy, when a boss comes to the workshop and encounters an employee with an eye-catching eye, the boss will always smile in front of him. However, when he returns to the office, he still has to find the manager in charge and ask him to remove the eye-catching eye in two or three months.

This method was transferred to the international market and the effect was unexpectedly good:

India jumped at the border, only to be held down and beaten by Pakistan;

A certain friend jumped from side to side and gave us a cross, and in a blink of an eye, the neighboring country came over.

Pakistan has unknowingly become a talker in the Islamic world, and its international status has soared.

Some of the work is done by professional brothers. We do good deeds without leaving any name behind them, as long as we have a good reputation, and the cost is extremely low.

This trick of "using barbarians to control barbarians" has been used by our ancestors for thousands of years, and it is still useful today.

Some people may think that being the world’s policeman is so majestic. But look at the reality:

In the real world, being a police officer is actually very tiring. It is often thankless, hard work, and dangerous. It is inevitable that people will scold you for your hard work.

In the international community, the United States is completely a black police force. It is domineering and tyrannical around the world. The bullied people of all countries want to put a sack on it and beat it severely.

Moreover, after working as a policeman for a long time, the Americans have also discovered that as a policeman, people usually say you are domineering when you win, and laugh at your incompetence when you lose. The United States spends money to send troops, and others do not appreciate it. When the United States withdraws its troops even slightly, it is accused of betraying its allies.

In the 1990s, when the United States was at its peak, the Gulf War was fought like a joke. It was the highlight of the police force. Of course, during the Cold War, troops were sent everywhere with majesty.

But after the Gulf War, the American police became more and more sluggish. Wherever they hit, they were in quagmire, and they were laughed at.

So we can see clearly: this job cannot be done.

What we want to be is a judge: you usually develop on your own, but if things really get into trouble, I will provide justice. "I don't want to fight, but I like to resolve fights." He doesn't get his hands dirty, doesn't waste money, and has a good reputation.

What’s so clever about China’s style of play?

The first is low cost and high efficiency. The United States spent trillions of dollars fighting a war in Iraq, and thousands of soldiers died. In the end, the oilfield exploration rights fell into the hands of others. What about us? Support Pakistan to check and balance India, spend a small amount of money to achieve big things, and the geopolitical landscape will open up immediately.

Secondly, we do not take the blame or cause hatred. The United States comes out to beat people, and global anti-American sentiment is rising. We are strategizing from behind. Countries with good relations think we are fair, and those with ordinary relations do not dare to offend easily. Recently, even Western countries have begun to come to China for judgment. The persona of this "international judge" has taken hold.

In addition, this approach is highly sustainable. The US military deterrence burns money too fast and the national treasury cannot sustain it. Our system of "soft control" relies on economic ties, diplomatic wisdom, and cultural penetration. The more we use it, the more skilled we become. Nowadays, when countries along the Belt and Road Initiative encounter disputes, the first thing they think of is to seek mediation from China, rather than going to the White House to file a complaint.

The United States only reacted now, but it was already too late.

In 2022, the US military withdrew from Afghanistan in embarrassment, and the whole world saw it. It’s not that the United States doesn’t want to be a police officer, it’s just that it really can’t afford it. Military spending is overwhelming the country's finances, there are a lot of domestic conflicts, and it is distracted from dealing with China.

However, we have quietly laid out the situation: in Southeast Asia, Cambodia and Laos have become iron friends, in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Iran can sit down and talk, and even in Europe, the German Chancellor brought half of his cabinet to discuss cooperation.

Why did these countries choose China? Because they discovered that if you mess with the United States, you have to be ready to be cannon fodder at any time, but if you mess with China, you can actually develop the economy.

In the future, more and more people will come to China for "comment", regardless of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Russia-Ukraine dispute, the South China Sea issue... In the future, the first stop for resolving international disputes may not be the United Nations, but Beijing.

What about the United States? It won't be able to be a police officer in the future, so it may have to learn to be a "co-police officer." But the question is: Will the Chinese "judge" be willing to issue it a license?

In the past, small countries were afraid of US sanctions, but now China can provide the same or even better security guarantees. Therefore, many middle-level countries will increasingly "ride the fence" and find a balance between China and the United States.

This international politics is like playing chess. The United States is still struggling with how to capture the pieces, while China has already begun to lay out the finishing touches. Being a police officer is not a thankless job, but being a judge can easily control the situation.

But what aggrieves the United States the most is that this method of play is still the "politics of restraint" that China has renovated from its ancestors. It has been used for thousands of years, and it is still useful in the 21st century.