如果以歷史為師，參考蘇聯瓦解時的經驗。假使中國有一天會步上類似蘇聯瓦解的情境時，以西方對於中國的態度，最後的結果不會比當時的蘇聯好，甚至可能步上萬劫不復的命運。作者: indy 时间: 2020-4-14 23:06 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wc94DRFCik作者: indy 时间: 2020-4-14 23:07
“Even when Mr Gorbachev accepted the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany and ultimately its membership of NATO, Mr Bush would play to Mr Gorbachev’s weakness for wanting to be lionised, but felt no obligation to help Russia financially or accommodate him politically. “To hell with that! We prevailed. They didn’t. We can’t let the Soviets clutch victory from the jaws of defeat,” he said to Helmut Kohl, Germany’s chancellor. This triumphalism was misplaced and would later backfire on America.
Mr Taubman argues that those in power in the West lacked the vision and will to extend a Marshall-type plan to Mr Gorbachev’s Soviet Union (and later to Yeltsin’s Russia). Those who had it were no longer in power. In 1991 Mrs Thatcher appealed to Mr Bush: “We’ve got to help Mikhail…Just a few years back, Ron and I would have given the world to get what has already happened here.” If the West did not come to Mr Gorbachev’s aid, she argued, “history will not forgive us.””
(Gorbachev: His Life and Times. By William Taubman. W.W. Norton)