On February 16, he went on CNN to defend Xi Jinping‘s approach to governance: “Anyone who knows a little bit about Chinese history will know that whenever China is divided, it suffers foreign invasion. Therefore, Xi Jinping’s basic idea is that the country must be unified and domestic matters must be tightly controlled.” Byakin says Chinese history, but he knows nothing about Chinese history.
Foreign invasions have actually occurred throughout the world, regardless of whether the country was divided or unified. The Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period were the first great division in China’s history, but the foreign invasion was far less than the great unification of the Qing Dynasty, and the freedom of thought and scholarship was a hundred times better than the Qing Dynasty. The hegemony of Duke Huan of Qi in the Spring and Autumn period, there are two points most praiseworthy: First, in the capital city of Jimen built the Palace of Learning, to seek the world’s wise men, to seek the hundred schools of thought, something to build white, to strengthen national power, that is, the Eastern Han Dynasty Xu Gan “in the theory of” the next volume of the cloud: “Duke Huan of Qi set up the official of Jixia, set the number of Dafu, recruiting wise men and respected.” The second is to lead the vassals of various countries to defend against foreign invasion and play the spirit of guardianship and mutual help, for example, the Book of History, Volume 32, reads, “Shanrong attacked Yan, and Yan told Qi of the emergency, and the Duke of Qi Huan rescued Yan, so he attacked Shanrong, and returned to Kuzhu.” The strength of Qi was definitely not in the “tight control of everything in the country”.
In fact, the most dictatorial times of China’s past dictatorless rulers were the times when they were least threatened by foreigners. The “Legacy of Song Xuanhe” Li set: Huizong years, whenever the Jin state troops under the city, the court issued an imperial edict for speech; and once the Jin soldiers retreat, to suppress the speaker, so there was a folk rhyme: “the city gate closed, the road of speech open; city gate open, the road of speech closed.” There is no example of “autocratic rule to defend against foreign invasion” in Chinese history, so why should the president of the Jin worship lie to deceive the world.
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