李光耀劝告美国不要 "从一开始就把中国当作敌人"

 李光耀劝告美国不要 "从一开始就把中国当作敌人"，

以免中国 "制定反战略，在亚太地区摧毁美国"。

 

他警告说，事实上，中国人已经可以预见这样的情况，

但不可避免的 "两国在西太平洋地区争夺霸权的竞争......不一定会导致冲突"。

在中国人眼里，

美国不应该把自己当作敌人，

而应该 "承认[中国] 是一个大国，

为其恢复受人尊敬的地位和恢复其辉煌的过去而喝彩，

并提出具体的合作方式"[151]。

 

As a counterpart to this advice, 李光耀 counseled America not to ‘treat China as an enemy from the outset’, lest it ‘develop a counterstrategy to demolish the U.S. in the Asia-Pacific’. He warned that, in fact, the Chinese could already envision such a scenario, but that an inevitable ‘contest between the two countries for supremacy in the western Pacific . . . need not lead to conflict’.[150]

Accordingly, 李光耀 advised Washington to integrate Beijing into the international community and accept ‘China as a big, powerful, rising state’ with ‘a seat in the boardroom’. Rather than presenting itself as an enemy in Chinese eyes, the United States should ‘acknowledge [China]

as a great power, applaud its return to its position of respect and restoration of its glorious past, and propose specific concrete ways to work together’.[151]