The complex modern nation-state system suggests that every backward country trying to rise from weak to strong: the strengthening of national hard and soft power is not a problem of external competition, but a problem of internal straightening out
As long as a country has many internal problems, ignoring the construction of the basic economic mechanism, ignoring the serious choice of the political regime, and obliterating the social and cultural value identity, then such a country will always be in a weak position of nation-state competition, even if it occasionally gets the opportunity to become a great power or even a powerful country, its long-term maintenance capacity is seriously insufficient
The internal problems of the country are more important than the external ones