In 1971, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger secretly came to Visit China, which seemed to have become a turning point in Sino-US relations, and sure enough, a year later, Nixon also came to Visit China, which became the beginning of the ice-breaking of Sino-US relations.
Kissinger visits China
In 1984, US Secretary of Defense Weinberg came to visit our country, and this visit made Weinberg very happy; after he returned to the United States, at this time, General Zhang Aiping, who served as Defense Minister of Our Country, gladly went to the United States for the purpose of close Sino-US relations and learning from the US military philosophy.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the character of General Zhang Aiping</h1>
Comrade Deng Xiaoping knew General Zhang Aiping very well, and ridiculed him to his face that he was as unworthy as General Peng in the army, and General Zhang Aiping's personality was indeed like this, and even his own son complained one after another, which showed that General Zhang Aiping was indeed a straight temper.
General Zhang Aiping
Born in 1910 in a peasant family in Zhangjiagou, Sichuan Province, he began to participate in revolutionary activities at the age of 15, and also served as the vice president of the student union in the school, joined the Communist Youth League at the age of 16, joined the Communist Party at the age of 18, and worked step by step from the secretary of the party branch in Luojiangkou to the member of the Zhabei District Committee of Shanghai. Long periods of underground work often put him in danger, and he was arrested and imprisoned twice, and even if he was tortured in prison, he did not submit.
In the face of the enemy's sweep, he was even more courageous and strategic, developing armed forces to resist the Kuomintang reactionaries and The Japanese invaders, especially in the face of the layers of blockade by the Kuomintang reactionaries during the Long March, he led his troops to successfully complete the task.
The long-term revolutionary life allowed Zhang Aiping to grow into an excellent general, but also established outstanding merits, in 1955 was awarded the rank of general, and then he was responsible for leading China's national defense construction for a long time, laying a solid foundation for China's national defense construction.
In 1957, in the face of the urgent need for economic development at home, the Central Military Commission decided to start saving military expenditure, the most important measure is disarmament, but for the army, disarmament is a very difficult job, zhang Aiping, who was the deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army at that time, was responsible for completing this task.
According to the regulations of the Central Military Commission, the Air Force will be merged with the Air Defense Force, but the troops have held many meetings and cannot discuss a result, Zhang Aiping has no way, so he has to say one by one, but the effect is not obvious, the officials with the greatest opposition opinions have begun to hide, this road is not feasible, Zhang Aiping feels that the opposing officials are somewhat ignorant of the general body.
Later, there was really no way, and when the meeting was held, the official could no longer hide, so he and Zhang Aiping hardened up, and Zhang Aiping was even more furious when he saw the situation, and reprimanded the official, and no one present dared to squeak again, which was also one of the manifestations of Zhang Aiping's straight temper. This disarmament was also completed by Zhang Aiping within two years.
Zhang Aiping also has a long-term view on national development.
Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant
However, Zhang Aiping, who knew about this matter, put forward her own objections at the meeting, believing that China's situation cannot give priority to the development of foreign-imported technologies, because energy development is not China's strong point, and such a short board will be subject to people sooner or later if it does not work hard to achieve results and blindly rely on the help of others, sooner or later it will be subject to people, and there will be great restrictions on development.
Through these things, it is not difficult to see that General Zhang Aiping has never targeted his "straight temper" at a certain person, and what he says and thinks is based on the perspective of the construction and development of our country, and people have also slowly realized this in their dealings with General Zhang Aiping, so they admire him even more.
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On June 9, 1984, Zhang Aiping flew to the United States, and the first stop at the United States was the Pentagon in New York, where Zhang Aiping was greeted by the US military band playing military music, the salute was fired in unison, and Weinberg also greeted General Zhang Aiping according to etiquette.
Zhang Aiping and Weinberg
On the first day of General Zhang Aiping's itinerary, he mainly answered questions from US representatives, some of which were aimed at some normal issues in Sino-US relations, but there were also people who were uneasy and kind and wanted to deliberately make things difficult for General Zhang Aiping.
At the meeting, many U.S. generals were obsessed with the Korean War of the past few decades, and have been asking questions about the Korean War, trying to rationalize their own behavior and classify China's just acts of defending the country as unjust wars that undermine peace.
When General Zhang Aiping immediately asked why the US military wanted to cross the Pacific Ocean into the Korean battlefield that had nothing to do with itself, some US generals claimed to be safeguarding world peace and pulled out UN resolutions to support their fallacies.
When these people realized that they could not embarrass China through the Korean issue, they also wanted to use Taiwan to make a stumbling block for General Zhang Aiping, and described China's desire to liberate Taiwan and complete reunification as a military threat.
These ulterior motives were not enough for General Zhang Aiping, who was accustomed to seeing the wind and waves, and this meeting was also considered to be a successful conclusion, and Zhang Aiping was also ready to leave the venue, but just when he walked to the hall, he was stopped by several American veterans wearing military uniforms and wearing medals.
Seeing General Zhang Aiping's doubts, Weinberg took the initiative to introduce the situation to him, it turned out that these five veterans were soldiers who had been saved by him, and this time when he heard that General Zhang Aiping was about to visit the United States, he asked that he must personally express his gratitude to General Zhang Aiping.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the United States also began to aid China, sending many pilots to support China's air defense forces, and on a day in August 1943, several American aircraft suddenly fell into the farmland, and after investigation, it was found that it was because the aircraft had malfunctioned.
American pilot on the anti-Japanese battlefield
Fortunately, at this time Zhang Aiping was commanding the operation nearby, when the news of the fall of the US warplane came, Zhang Aiping quickly organized a rescue, but the rescue was not smooth, it was attacked by the Japanese army, Zhang Aiping also quickly organized the troops, while rescuing the wounded and American soldiers, handling the important equipment of the aircraft, while fighting against the Japanese army, after several hours of fierce fighting, finally repelled the Japanese army.
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Two days after the visit to the United States, Zhang Aiping received an invitation to visit the US State Department, and General Zhang Aiping also went calmly, but before going, because there were many contradictions between the US military and the State Department, there was such a strange scene:
Even if there is a sea of swords and fires in front of it, I think General Zhang Aiping will not be afraid, so he also accepted the invitation with great confidence, in this visit, the US State Department was indeed not at ease, not long after the meeting began, Deputy Secretary of State Dam began to harass General Zhang Aiping, he said that he found the face of "Chinese" in Pakistan's nuclear weapons manufacturing base.
General Zhang Aiping immediately saw the trap of the United States and wanted him to admit the slander of China helping Pakistan build nuclear weapons. General Zhang Aiping did not care, only said that the United States should decide pakistan's affairs on its own, and it was possible to arrest and try whether it had anything to do with China in the first instance, and as for the documents, he had no right to sign them.
。 But General Zhang Aiping was not affected by this incident at all, but in the face of such a threat, he was very angry, and the Americans in front of him did not know General Zhang Aiping's temper, and they did not know what would happen next.
General Zhang was furious in the face of such a threat, strongly condemned such an unfriendly act of the United States, expressed great unhappiness with this visit to the United States, and the meeting was so unhappy that it was dispersed; he did not expect that the Americans were not good enough to give up, but instead smeared General Zhang Aiping in the US media, saying that he had made a big fuss about the US State Department.
During this trip to the United States, General Zhang Aiping and Weinberg signed a three-point "Military Technology Cooperation Agreement between the Two Countries" as representatives of China and the United States, and cooperated in three fields: anti-tank missiles, large-caliber artillery shells, and the electronic system of the Chinese J-8 fighter. This US trip is a further strengthening of sino-US cooperation, and the signing of the cooperation agreement will further enhance the military strength of our military.
After returning to China, Zhang Aiping submitted his resignation report to Comrade Deng Xiaoping on his "big trouble with the State Council" in the United States, and Comrade Deng Xiaoping laughed loudly; he had already investigated the ins and outs of the matter, knew that the Americans were not at ease, and did not agree to Comrade Zhang Aiping's resignation report, nor did they punish him, but instead praised him for doing a good job in this matter.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping
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Comrade Zhang Aiping's contributions to the country are not limited to visiting the United States, but he is the founder of China's national defense science and technology, and intercontinental missiles, submarine-to-ground missiles, communication satellites, and other projects that can greatly strengthen the state's strength have all developed rapidly under his impetus.
Even earlier, when the two superpowers in the world at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union, both possessed nuclear weapons and our country was in danger of nuclear threats, General Zhang Aiping began to build national defense strength, and under his direct responsibility and auspices, he and the vast number of staff members went deep into Lop Nur and worked day and night under difficult and difficult conditions.
Zhang Aiping in Lop Nur
The success of nuclear weapons is inseparable from General Zhang Aiping, and the construction of China's navy and missile forces also has the indelible merits of General Zhang Aiping. In the process of building these, the difficulties encountered by General Zhang Aiping are unimaginable; taking the construction of the naval force as an example, General Zhang Aiping himself could not swim, and had been fighting in the army for a long time, and did not understand many things about the navy, but he devoted himself to research, did not shame to ask, and finally laid the foundation for the establishment of a strong naval force in our country.
For China, national defense is like a great wall of steel in the new era, and Comrade Zhang Aiping has made indelible contributions to this great wall, and his steely character and steely revolutionary will have turned into a fierce fire to forge this great wall of steel.