There is a famous saying in “The Three-Body Problem”: Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, but arrogance is!
In life, there are always some people who always rely on their own advantages, are arrogant, don’t know their surnames and names, and think that the earth can’t turn without them. Little do they know that when people are arrogant, there will be disasters, and when the sky is arrogant, there will be rain. The net of heaven is vast and nothing can escape. When the time comes, it will only be yourself who will be embarrassed and suffer.
People are like this, and so are countries!
In the past two days, two South American conferences, the APEC conference held in Peru and the G20 summit held in Brazil, attracted global attention.
Interestingly, dramatic scenes occurred in both conferences.
First, the APEC meeting took a group photo. On November 16, local time, the 31st APEC Leaders’ Informal Meeting was held in Lima, the capital of Peru. After the meeting, the leaders of APEC members took a group photo. However, in this “family photo”, people found that the outgoing US President Biden was placed in the corner, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba did not appear in the photo.
According to common sense, whether it is a family photo or other forms of group photo, generally speaking, you have to pay attention to the position. People with high qualifications, high positions, high value, and high reputation usually stand in the middle of the first row or the C position.
“Why is Biden standing in the corner?”
“Where is Shigeru Ishiba?”
Many people are asking, especially Americans and Japanese. Is it because the organizer is “snobbish” and Biden is “cold”?
The information given by the media afterwards was: Biden was 5 minutes late, and Shigeru Ishiba went to the tomb of Alberto Fujimori, the former Japanese-Peruvian President, in the suburbs of Lima to lay flowers. The schedule was too tight and he encountered a “traffic jam” and failed to get back in time.
Do you believe it?
Then it’s more interesting.
On November 18, local time, the 19th G20 Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the leaders took a “family photo”.
After the Brazilian government released the photos, everyone found that US President Biden was missing this time. You know, this G20 summit is Biden’s last time to attend the G20 summit, and it must be his last time to participate in a major global international event during his term.
It is so important, but there is no Biden in the “family photo”? This time the world is asking “Where is Biden?”
The accompanying US officials complained about “the photo was taken too early”, “logistics problems” and “traffic jams”. In a word, this is definitely not a problem of the United States, but Brazil did not do it well. Later, the organizer Brazil responded that “Biden was late.”
According to information disclosed by many foreign media, Biden was in talks with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau before taking the photo, so Trudeau was also late. In addition, Italian Prime Minister Meroni also missed the photo.
Did you notice that all the latecomers in the two conferences were from Western countries: the United States, Japan, Canada, Italy… The United States was late for both group photos at the two conferences.
Is this really a coincidence?
If you respect the agenda arranged by the organizer, you will never conflict your schedule with group activities; even if things are complicated, you will definitely leave room.
During the APEC meeting, when can’t Shigeru Ishiba go to lay flowers at Fujimori’s grave?
Biden was late for the APEC meeting photo once, wasting 5 minutes of time for many leaders, and was late for the G20 meeting photo again. Who would believe you if you say that the United States didn’t do it on purpose?
Obviously, the arrogant United States doesn’t know what it means to respect other countries and people, and is still acting like “God is the best in the world” and “The earth can’t turn without me.”
My lord, times have changed!
As the highly praised comment on social media said, “Biden is late, and everyone has decided not to wait for him anymore; welcome to the multipolar world!”
Not knowing the changes of the times, not adapting to the changes in the world pattern, and indulging in the fantasy of the past Western dominance of the world and unwilling to wake up, there will only be more embarrassment and awkwardness waiting for Western countries.
Carefully observe the group photo of Brazil at the G20 summit on November 18, and there is another very interesting detail: the leaders of Brazil, India, South Africa, China, Turkey, Australia and other countries in the front row hold hands and strive forward.
Obviously, this has the meaning of “world unity, striving forward”. And it must be easy for everyone to observe that most of the above countries are BRICS countries, including Turkey, which was confirmed by its ruling party in September this year that it “formally submitted an application to join the BRICS countries”.
Australia doesn’t say it, he knows who to follow to get meat. What is more surprising is the current British Prime Minister Starmer, looking at the direction of his face and eyes in the group photo.
Even if you don’t understand body language interpretation, you can intuitively see Starmer’s envy and jealousy.
The southern countries are moving step by step towards a great union, working together for win-win results, striving to transform the world and pursue a better life; the Western world is indulging in the illusory “glory” of the past, showing off the generosity of their ancestors, playing double standards, exceptions and various privileges, and dividing the world for their own petty gains.
Who is the future and who has a future?
People of all ethnic groups in the world have their own scales in their hearts.
The various lateness scandals of Western countries in the two conferences are just a dramatic anecdote of international conferences on the surface, but they are also a symbolic scene of the current world pattern and trend of the times!
What is a leader?
He is the core of an organization, a unit, and a country, and naturally represents the spirit of this organization, unit and country.
Western political leaders can be late for important occasions of international political conferences, so are economic leaders late for industrial development? Will financial leaders be late for important investments? Will science and technology leaders be late for scientific and technological development?
Military, culture, academia, etc…….
Hypersonic weapons of the United States and the West are either PPT or still in the process of testing. However, even if we don’t mention China and Russia, which have already listed hypersonic weapons for many years, Iran and North Korea, which were originally looked down upon by the West, have also developed hypersonic missile weapons, and even the Houthi armed forces in Yemen have “hand-made similar equipment”.
Others such as new energy technology, the United States and the West have frantically concocted various environmental protection concepts, and even remotely raised dogs everywhere to interfere with the economic development of other countries, but in the end they were also late in this field. So now they can only be incompetent and furious, and began to shamelessly advocate that “global warming is fake” and “transforming the desert affects the environment”…
So it is not just Biden, Shigeru Ishiba, and Trudeau who are late, but the entire increasingly decadent and corrupt Western world. If they don’t change and remain arrogant and rude, they can only watch the BRICS countries and the southern countries move forward step by step, leaving them behind.
The world that strives forward has no time to wait for the late United States, nor will it wait for the late West! There are many more important things in the world, such as the stars, the sea and a wonderful life, and we need to roll up our sleeves and work hard!