ndi Lawrence Wittner, Nkhondo ndi Chiwawa, October 11, 2021
Pa Seputembara 10, 2021, pamsonkhano wofunika wazokambirana womwe udachitika patelefoni, Purezidenti wa US a Joseph Biden ndi Purezidenti wa China Xi Jinping adatsimikiza zakufunika kwa ubale wabwino pakati pa mayiko awo awiriwa. Malinga ndi Chidule cha China, Xi ananena kuti “China ndi United States zikagwirizana, mayiko awiriwa komanso dziko lonse lapansi lipindula; pamene China ndi United States zikumenyana, mayiko awiriwa komanso dziko lonse lapansi zidzavutika. ” Ananenanso kuti: "Kuyanjanitsa bwino. . . china chake tiyenera kuchita ndipo tiyenera kuchita bwino. ”
Pakadali pano, maboma amitundu iwiri akuwoneka kuti ali kutali ndi mgwirizano. Zowonadi, kukayikirana kwambiri, a United States ndi China akuwonjezera ndalama zomwe amawononga, kupanga zida zatsopano za nyukiliya, akukangana kwambiri magawo, ndikulola mpikisano wachuma. Mikangano yokhudza udindo wa Taiwan ndi Nyanja ya South China ndizowunikira makamaka zankhondo.
Koma lingalirani zotheka ngati United States ndi China anachita kugwirizana. Kupatula apo, maiko awa ali ndi ndalama zazikulu kwambiri zankhondo padziko lonse lapansi komanso chuma chambiri chachikulu, ndi omwe akutsogolera ogwiritsa ntchito mphamvu, ndipo ali ndi anthu pafupifupi 1.8 biliyoni. Pogwira ntchito limodzi, amatha kukhala ndi mphamvu zambiri pazochitika zadziko.
M'malo mokonzekera nkhondo yankhondo yoopsa-yomwe idawonekera kutseka moopsa chakumapeto kwa 2020 ndi koyambirira kwa 2021-United States ndi China atha kukamenya nkhondo zawo ku United Nations kapena mabungwe ena osalowerera ndale ngati Association of Southeast Asia Nations kuti ayanjanitse ndi kuthetsa. Kupatula popewa nkhondo yomwe ingakhale yowononga, mwina ngakhale nkhondo ya zida za nyukiliya, lamuloli lingathandizire kudula kwakukulu pakugwiritsa ntchito ankhondo, ndi ndalama zomwe zitha kuperekedwa kuti zithandizire ntchito za UN ndikuthandizira ndalama zantchito zawo zapakhomo.
M'malo moletsa mayiko awiriwa kuteteza bungwe la UN poteteza bata ndi chitetezo padziko lonse lapansi, amatha kulichirikiza mokwanira - mwachitsanzo, povomereza UN Pangano loletsa zida za nyukiliya.
M'malo mopitiliza kukhala wadziko lapansi Kutulutsa kwakukulu kwa mpweya wowonjezera kutentha, Zimphona ziwirizi zitha kugwirira ntchito limodzi kuthana ndi tsoka lomwe likuchulukirachulukira pochepetsa mpweya wawo ndikulimbikitsa mgwirizano wapadziko lonse ndi mayiko ena kuti achite zomwezo.
M'malo mwa kunamizana wina ndi mnzake pa mliri wapano, atha kugwira ntchito mogwirizana pamagulu apadziko lonse lapansi, kuphatikiza kupanga ndi kufalitsa katemera wa Covid-19 ndikufufuza za matenda ena owopsa.
M'malo mochita mpikisano wosawononga ndalama komanso nkhondo zamalonda, atha kuphatikiza chuma chawo komanso maluso awo kuti apatse mayiko osauka mapulogalamu otukuka azachuma ndikuwathandiza pazachuma.
M'malo mwa kunenezana wina ndi mnzake chifukwa chophwanya ufulu wa anthu, atha kuvomereza kuti onse awiri adapondereza amitundu ang'onoang'ono, alengeza zakuthana ndi nkhanzazi, komanso kubwezera omwe akuwachitira nkhanza.
Ngakhale zingawoneke kuti kusintha koteroko sikungatheke, china chake chofananako zinachitika m'ma 1980, pomwe US-Soviet Cold War, yomwe inali nkhani yayikulu kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi, inatha mwadzidzidzi, mosayembekezereka. Potengera ziwonetsero zazikulu zotsutsana ndi Cold War yomwe ikuchulukirachulukira, makamaka kuwopsa kwa nkhondo ya zida za nyukiliya, Purezidenti wa Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev anali ndi nzeru zakuwona kuti mayiko awiriwa alibe chilichonse chomwe angapindule nawo kupitiliza njira yakumenyanirana ndi asitikali. Ndipo adapambanitsanso Purezidenti wa US Ronald Reagan, yemwe anali wakuba wolimba kwambiri koma anakhumudwitsidwa ndi kukakamizidwa ndi anthu ambiri, zakufunika kwa mgwirizano pakati pa mayiko awo awiriwa. Mu 1988, nkhondo yaku US-Soviet itagwa mwachangu, Reagan anayenda mosangalatsa ndi Gorbachev kudzera ku Red Square ku Moscow, akuuza anthu omwe anali ndi chidwi kuti: “Tinaganiza zolankhulana m'malo molankhulana. Zikuyenda bwino kwambiri. ”
Tsoka ilo, mzaka makumi angapo zotsatira, atsogoleri atsopano amitundu yonse awononga mwayi waukulu wamtendere, chitetezo chachuma, ndi ufulu wandale zomwe zidatsegulidwa kumapeto kwa Cold War. Koma, kwakanthawi, njira yothandizirana imagwira ntchito bwino.
Ndipo zingathenso.
Popeza kulumikizana kwachisanu pakati pa maboma a United States ndi China, zikuwoneka kuti, ngakhale panali mawu olonjeza pamsonkhano waposachedwa wa Biden-Xi, sanakonzekere mgwirizano.
Koma zomwe zidzachitike mtsogolo ndi nkhani ina — makamaka ngati, monga momwe zinalili pa Cold War, anthu padziko lapansi, polimba mtima kuti aganizire njira yabwinoko, aganiza kuti ndikofunikira kukhazikitsa maboma awiri mwamphamvu kwambiri mayiko pa njira yatsopano komanso yopindulitsa.
[Dr. Chilamulo Wittner (https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/ ) ndi Professor of History Emeritus ku SUNY / Albany ndi mlembi wa Kulimbana ndi Bomba (Stanford University Press).
