How much has China been wronged under the Yalta system?

At the end of World War II, the Allies, led by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, convened a series of important international conferences to reach agreements on the end of the war, the handling of fascism, and post-war arrangements, among which the Yalta Conference held on the Crimean Peninsula of the Soviet Union in February 1945 and the Conference held in Potsdam, Germany, in the same year were the most important. They stipulated: the eradication of militarism and Nazism in Japan and Germany, the punishment of war criminals, and the control of German partition occupation; The Soviet Union occupied part of the Japanese islands, and some of Japan's rights and interests in China were also handed over to the Soviet Union; the creation of the United Nations, an international organization for the maintenance of world peace; The borders of some countries in post-war Europe were also regulated accordingly.

These agreements have clearly defined the spheres of influence of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in Europe, highlighted the role of the two great powers, and laid the foundation for the gradual formation of a situation in the field of post-war international relations, in which the two powers of the United States and the Soviet Union are headed by the two powers, the political and military blocs of the East and the West are facing each other, and different social systems and ideologies are diametrically opposed. Later, it became customary to refer to this system of international relations as the "Yalta system".

The Yalta system was originally created in the conditions of victory in the World Anti-Fascist War. It has played a certain positive role in maintaining the post-war world peace order, eliminating fascism, and restoring and developing the economies of various countries.

However, the formation of the Yalta system was mainly promoted by the two great powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, and was built on the basis of the division of spheres of influence between the two countries, which had obvious characteristics of great powers, which provided conditions for the formation of a bipolar pattern and the emergence of the Cold War under this pattern. The establishment of the Yalta system means that the traditional pattern of international relations centered on maintaining the balance of power among European powers for nearly 300 years has been replaced by the bipolar pattern of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Yalta System (English: Yalta System) is the name of the international political pattern from 1945 to 1991, named after the Yalta Conference held in Yalta, Churchill, and Stalin in Yalta, the Soviet Union, in early 1945. Its characteristics are:

With the United States and the Soviet Union as the center, the Cold War for hegemony was fought on a global scale, but it was not excluded that wars in local areas with the direct or indirect participation of the two superpowers (such as the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War, etc.) were carried out. The upheavals in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the final collapse of the Yalta system.

The main elements of the Yalta system are:

1. Defeat the German and Japanese fascists, and completely eradicate fascism and militarism in the two countries, so as to prevent the resurgence of fascism.

2. Redraw the political map of post-war Eurasia, especially the borders of fascist countries such as Germany, Japan, and Italy, as well as the borders to which they belong in the occupied areas.

3. Establish a joint international organization as an institution to coordinate international disputes and maintain world peace after the war. The voting procedure of the Security Council, the core organ of the United Nations, is based on the "Yalta formula", that is, the "principle of unanimity among the major powers". With the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, and France as the core, and the United Nations as the leading, we will protect the security of small and medium-sized countries and maintain world peace.

4. To realize the trusteeship plan for the colonies of Germany, Japan, Italy and the mandate of the League of Nations, and to recognize in principle the independent rights of the oppressed nations.

The Yalta system collapsed.

Although the Soviet Union became the only superpower that could compete with the United States, its domestic political life was rigid, the vitality of the economic mechanism declined, the economic development declined rapidly, and social contradictions were reborn. However, the reform has reached a dead end.

The drastic changes in Eastern Europe brought about changes in the social system, and the new regime moved closer to the West, which led to the collapse of the political, economic, and military systems built by the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union promulgated the Treaty of Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, which turned the Soviet Union into a loose confederation. The August 19 Incident broke out. The balance of domestic political forces in the USSR was changed, and the nature of state power was fundamentally changed.

In December 1991, the leaders of 11 countries, including Russia, signed the "Almaty Declaration", and the Soviet Union completely disintegrated, and the bipolar pattern that had existed for more than 40 years after the war collapsed.

The impact of the Yalta system on New China.