- Pressure for Taiwan's reunification

- Long-term stability and security in Xinjiang

- Balancing Tibetan culture and governance

- Winning back the hearts of Hong Kong people

- All-weather containment by external forces

The result is:

Our modernization is destined to be more difficult, slower, more bumpy, and more mentally draining than that of any major power.

The US rose easily over 250 years;

We may need 100 years of forbearance, 100 years of bearing heavy burdens, and 100 years of withstanding pressure.

Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong,

are not just four regions,

but four iron chains shackled to China's modernization.

They won't bring the country down,

but they will make us walk slower, more tired, in more pain, and more passively.

This is not a temporary phenomenon,

it is the underlying tone of our national destiny for at least the next 100 years.