The Korean battlefield is filled with smoke. At the same time, China and the United States and other western countries have also launched an invisible war in the economic field. In order to force Chinese people's Volunteer Army to retreat from the Korean battlefield, the United States and other western countries, regardless of international morality, launched crazy economic sanctions and blockades against China in an attempt to strangle the newly established China people's economy in the cradle. In order to resist the economic strangulation of American imperialism and western powers, the people of China, under the leadership of the Production Party, launched a vigorous economic war against strangulation.
1950, when the Korean War broke out, new China was in full swing, new socialist China was rebuilt, and foreign trade also achieved a breakthrough, reaching a high point for decades. After the outbreak of the Korean War, just as China was preparing to go all out to develop its domestic economy and strengthen its exchanges with the world, the United States stepped up its blockade and embargo on China, issued a decree to control the export of strategic materials to Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, and announced the freezing of China government assets, deposits from the People's Bank of China and other properties in the United States. 1952 In May, he manipulated the United Nations General Assembly to adopt a resolution imposing an embargo on China, forcing the participating countries to impose an embargo on China's weapons, ammunition, oil and transportation equipment with strategic value with reference to the US embargo manifest, with more than 1700 varieties. After the implementation of the resolution, the capitalist countries led by the United States imposed a total blockade and embargo on China, and 45 countries joined the embargo.
Familiar formula, familiar smell, Western countries, led by American imperialism, always pretend to be moral guardians of human rights, regardless of harming the legitimate rights and interests of other people, forcibly imposing sanctions and blockades on other countries, and forcing other countries to submit with the stick of economic sanctions. This has a profound historical tradition, and its robber gene has been deeply engraved in the blood of capitalism. Until today, the robber logic of American imperialism has been repeatedly used to bully other weak countries by using its own economic and political advantages.
Before the western capitalist powers carried out economic strangulation, the Central Committee of our country was far-sighted and foresaw that imperialism would threaten our country with economic sanctions and blockades. Adhering to the principle of independence, the Central People's Government has taken a series of effective measures and launched an economic anti-strangulation campaign against imperialist blockades and embargoes. After the Korean War began, China Finance Committee immediately took emergency measures to snap up materials and minimize foreign exchange losses. Most of the $240 million in foreign exchange and materials that may be frozen and detained by the United States were snapped up by the Ministry of Trade and shipped back to China. At the same time, China Finance Committee decided to change the foreign exchange settlement trade mode with capitalist countries, temporarily switch to barter trade, first in and then out, and adopt cash on delivery. Make full use of the historical ties and good credit relations between private importers and exporters and foreign manufacturers, and actively develop import and export business with the support of the state.
Faced with the powerful economic blockade and sanctions from the West, China actively expanded its trade with the Soviet Union and other socialist countries to make up for the shortage of strategic materials caused by the blockade of western capitalist countries; With the support of the Eastern Group countries, China has further expanded its circle of friends, developed mutually beneficial trade with India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Malaysia and other newly independent countries, opened up the demand of these countries, opened the gap between Southeast Asia and South Asia, won some support from these countries, and solved the import demand of some strategic materials and other materials.
At the same time, when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China treats the western capitalist camp, it also adopts the principle of differential treatment according to the reality that the capitalist world is not monolithic, develops trade with Japanese and other capitalist countries, and strives for the import of important materials. And make full use of these two windows, Hong Kong and Macao, to conduct informal or secret trade with Britain, France, Belgium, Canada and other countries (as for Hong Kong and Macao, our country did not take them back when the People's Republic of China was founded, but kept the status quo as a window for exchanges between China and the West, taking into account the difficulties and hardships in the future in advance, and we have to say that we have a superior strategic vision ahead of time). There are not only the reasons why the western capitalist groups have different positions in front of interests, but also the irreplaceable dependence of Hong Kong and Macao on the mainland, forcing Britain, France and Portugal to make concessions.
The China administration adopted the method of "making friends far away and attacking near", frequently attacked in the international trade market, conducted extensive contacts and negotiations with many countries in the world, and signed quite a number of trade agreements, which opened a big gap in the trade barriers prohibited by western capitalist countries and greatly reduced the effectiveness of US imperialist economic sanctions.
Although the blockade and embargo imposed by the western countries headed by the United States on our new China have brought many difficulties to the recovery of the national economy of new China, on the other hand, it has also prompted the people of China to carry forward the spirit of independence and self-reliance, and rely on their own strength to concentrate on building a new country. The people of the whole country, with one heart and one mind, vigorously carry out material exchanges between urban and rural areas, actively expand domestic demand, strive to establish internal circulation while opening up external circulation, gradually reduce dependence on the West, enhance self-sufficiency, and effectively resolve the containment of China's export products by western countries.
After actively carrying out internal and external exchanges and opposing blockade and embargo, China's foreign trade has been reformed in organization, management, import and export operations and other aspects, accelerating the pace of economic independence; Although the western capitalist countries have slowed down the recovery of China's economic construction, due to economic sanctions, they have lost China, a vast market and an important source of raw materials, which can be said to be shooting themselves in the foot. As Premier Zhou said at that time: "The imperialist blockade and embargo are only used by us to eliminate China's semi-colonial economic dependence and shorten the process of our economic independence, and the real victims are them." Under the leadership of the Central Government of China, the people of South China overcame difficulties and obstacles, fully carried forward the spirit of independence, and fought a beautiful economic anti-strangulation war against the economic sanctions and trade strangulation of the US imperialists, which effectively supported the volunteers in heroically killing the enemy in the Korean battlefield and drove the US imperialists out of the border security line.
History will not simply repeat itself, but will only step on the same rhyme. Today's China has made remarkable achievements. For more than 70 years, countless human sons and daughters known as heroes have struggled forward; Qi Xin worked together to compose a magnificent epic on the road of Chinese national rejuvenation. However, we should also be soberly aware that today, western capitalist countries will not die out. They don't want to see the Chinese nation standing among the nations of the world, let alone China challenging their hegemony. Now and in the future, they will still use despicable means to undermine our rejuvenation process and the peaceful environment around us, so as to delay the rejuvenation process of the Chinese nation; Just as the United States and other western capitalist countries are doing today on Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and other issues, they simply don't care about the lives of people in other countries, but only care about whether they can suck the blood of people in the third world cheaply forever.
Today, the great cause of national reunification has not yet been realized, and imperialism will bind us at any time on this issue involving the core interests of the nation; It is foreseeable that if one day, they will habitually raise the stick of economic sanctions and call us. History is the best teacher. Facing all the uncertainties in the future, we have enough confidence. As the sage said more than 2000 years ago, Germany is not alone, there must be neighbors! As the world's largest market and largest manufacturing country, China insists on walking on the road of domestic and international double circulation. At the same time, as one of the few independent countries in the world, we have strong enough ability and determination to win all future challenges.