What are the lessons of the Second World War for China?

The Second World War has taught us the following four main lessons:

I. Positive reconciliation between countries and synergistic development are the way to go.

The use of peaceful attitudes and legal means to settle disputes between countries, and active reconciliation between hostile countries, so that a good dynamic relationship based on friendship, trust and *** same values can be laid down. Looking back at the history of the past 70 years or so, it is precisely reconciliation that has brought about a peaceful and stable international environment, thus enabling many countries to accomplish economic transformations unprecedented in their history.

II. Democracy and the rule of law are the only way to revitalize all countries and nations.

Anyone, the nationals of any country, is inherently both savage and civilized. Civilization is the rules and systems that are agreed upon or developed through legal procedures. Only these rules and systems inculcated later in life can restrain and stop human savagery.

Democracy and the rule of law are by far the best systems and public **** rules of life that mankind has gradually developed. The Germans committed the heinous crime of the Holocaust because they were freed from the constraints of democracy and the rule of law.

Thirdly, any nation should get rid of the deception of nationalist sensationalism. There are only inferior systems in the world, not inferior peoples. All cries of racial and ethnic superiority are deception.

Fourth, the dregs of the traditional culture of each nation should be thoroughly liquidated with high respect for human values and by taking the achievements already made in modern human rights as the standard. Blind affirmation of everything in our national culture is terrible.

Expanded:

The Second World War covered a range of wars, from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, there have been 61 countries and regions, more than 2 billion people were involved in the war, the combat area of 22 million square kilometers. According to incomplete statistics, the war military and civilian **** casualties of more than 90 million people, more than 5 trillion U.S. dollars down the drain, is the largest world war in human history.

The Second World War profoundly changed human history. Its impact has been widespread across all levels of politics, economics, military, diplomacy, culture and science and technology.

With the development of military science and technology as the intermediary, human wisdom and the energy of nature perfectly combined together, was greatly released, the destructive power of the war unprecedented increase, the means of war unprecedented increase, the style of war unprecedented richness, the space of war unprecedented broad. Human war activities from blind to self-conscious, from impetuous to rational, from childish to mature, into a new historical stage.

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