Is it necessary to combine traditional culture with the road of political development with Chinese characteristics?

Of course it is necessary. At present, the Western countries led by the United States tend to judge and dominate all kinds of international forms by their own values, and the political, economic and military behaviors they adopt are all based on such values, which, to put it plainly, emphasize competition and hegemony. As a rising China that will lead the world in various fields in the future, its thousands of years of complete history is a representative of Eastern wisdom, and what it does naturally needs to be based on the values of our traditional culture as the foundation of its national strategy, which needs to be combined with the essence of the core of our traditional culture (the five moral values, the five constants, the four dimensions, and the eight virtues). Of course, I am not saying that the rise of Eastern countries must be based on Eastern thought, but throughout the world, only China's traditional culture emphasizes the **** win and the way of the king can peacefully solve the world's problems of the 21st century, compared to competition and hegemony is more in line with the people of the world in the new century *** with the interests of the new century. More and more Western scholars have begun to recognize the wisdom of China's traditional culture and its thousands of years of enduring historical experience and achievements, as Arnold Joseph Toynbee, a renowned philosopher of history at the University of Cambridge who lived through the two world wars, said and summarized in his book Looking to the 21st Century:

China's history has continued to be marked by the change of dynasties from one week to the next. However, China has been more successful than the West in solving two major problems. For one thing, China has managed to maintain the unity of millions of people in a peaceful, regular and relatively stable environment for centuries. Furthermore, China has successfully integrated an alien ideology and culture, Buddhism, which has enriched the native Chinese civilization.

In history. China was divided for more than five hundred years (during the five hundred years of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China was divided into many small vassal states), but in 221 B.C., the whole country was politically united. Since then, China has always been politically united and has never been divided for a long time, and culturally, it has never lost its unity.

As early as the second century BC, Emperor Wu of Han understood that to maintain the political unity of China, it was necessary to train a group of professional and excellent government officials to maintain, and the qualification standard of the officials, he chose to be proficient in Confucian philosophy to assess the degree of depth.

Humanity in the twentieth century is very much in the same frame of mind as the Chinese in the third century BC (the Warring States period). We have become prisoners of the ancient habit of political division, and of the race and war between nations that results from it. This habit has been so y rooted in us that we are reluctant to free ourselves from its prison. However, we have now realized that without global political unity, this devastating alienation will lead to the destruction of all life.

Dare we hope that China will fulfill the world's urgent needs? Since the dissolution of the Roman Empire, Western politics has not worked to re-establish unity, but has destructively attempted to prevent it. The West has deliberately disqualified itself from politically unifying the world. China's past achievements and historical experience have qualified it to unify the world; this is what the West is conspicuously lacking. In the strength of this achievement, China, more than any other country, can hope to lead humanity politically into a world of great unity.

The only solution to the social problems of the twenty-first century is the Chinese doctrine of Confucius and Mencius and Mahayana Buddhism.

If there is an afterlife, I would like to be born in China.