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When Great Powers Break the Rules, Ordinary Families Suffer

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2026-06-05

When Great Powers Break the Rules, Ordinary Families Suffer
Sun Zuodong

In today’s world, rules and order form the cornerstone of human civilization and the guarantee of peace and security for every family. If international justice can be ignored, national sovereignty trampled upon, and the common ethical bottom line of humanity breached at will, then it is ordinary people who will ultimately bear the brunt. Today, I wish to speak from the simplest truth about family and nation, discussing the fundamental link between rules and peace.

1 The Universal Bottom Line of Humanity: Private Homes Are Inviolable, National Sovereignty Is Unassailable

I have been pondering a question lately: What would the world become if a great power could tear up international rules it helped formulate at will, and arbitrarily arrest and harm the heads of other states?

Our ancestors long warned us: officials do not enter private homes without cause, fathers do not enter their sons’ chambers uninvoked. There is an ancient precept: entering a private house without reason at night is unethical and legally unacceptable. In the West, there is a world-renowned saying: The wind may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter.

This is the universal bottom line of humanity: private homes are sacred and inviolable, and no one may trespass within one’s door. Yet what is the reality? The United States launched a raid on Venezuela, trespassed on another country’s territory, and forcibly took away the president and first lady of a sovereign nation.

If even the head of state, the supreme representative of a country, cannot be guaranteed personal safety and dignity, what does that say about the world? When the “state gates” of a nation can be breached at will, the most basic family-state ethics and civilized bottom line of humanity are utterly trampled.

2 If Even a Head of State Is Insecure, How Can Ordinary People Feel Safe?

Some say this is great power rivalry, beyond the concern of ordinary citizens. I say this is wrong. This matter concerns every single family.

If a head of state cannot protect himself, where can ordinary people around the world find a sense of security? If a country can be invaded and interfered with at will, how can we ordinary citizens rest easy in our homes? How can people worldwide not feel anxious and worried?

The reason is simple: example influences conduct. Let us think in reverse: a family without rules will be filled with quarrels and estrangement between kin; a country without rules will fall into the law of the jungle and public unease; the world without rules will be engulfed in wars and the collapse of civilization.

3 Once Rules Are Broken, the World Cannot Be Peaceful

The Charter of the United Nations is the bottom line forged by humanity with blood and tears after World War II: sovereign equality of states, prohibition of arbitrary use of force, and immunity of heads of state. These are the foundations of the international order.

Yet today, this foundation has been crushed underfoot. Today, one can use “counter-terrorism” as a pretext to arrest a president; tomorrow, someone may use “security” as an excuse to invade a neighboring country; the day after, someone may use “interests” as a reason to annex a weak nation.

If great powers can do this, why not medium-sized countries? If medium-sized countries can do this, why not regional powers? This is a chain reaction. International disorder leads to national disorder; national disorder leads to social disorder; social disorder leaves families insecure. Once the top-level rules are broken, all underlying ethics collapse.

4 Might Is Not Right, and Civilization Must Not Be Trampled

I will speak plainly today: if countries can act arbitrarily and disregard rules toward one another, how can there be peace between individuals, neighbors, and within families? When “might makes right” becomes the law, there is no justice left in the world.

In places without justice, it is always ordinary people who suffer. In less than 250 years since its founding, the United States has repeatedly used force against sovereign states—from Iraq and Libya to Venezuela, and now it seeks to subvert Iran, a nation with thousands of years of civilization.

This is not a matter of strength versus weakness; it is rules being crushed by brute force, a trampling of the civilized order of humanity, and a fundamental contradiction with the Confucian culture and Eastern civilization of our ancient Eastern nation, which uphold propriety, righteousness, and reverence for order.

What is more terrifying is not what it has done, but the precedent it has set. Once this precedent is set, rules die; when rules die, sovereignty becomes empty talk; when sovereignty is empty talk, ordinary people lose their umbrella of protection.

5 Upholding Order Means Safeguarding the Lights of Ten Thousand Homes

Therefore, I launch the Convention on Human Creation and Tools. I grieve that the international order is being trampled by power, and even more that out-of-control technology may override humanity. Human security cannot be built on the principle that “might makes right.”

As a Chinese citizen, I state my position: we will never remain silent in the face of acts that undermine order. Upholding the UN Charter is safeguarding world peace; defending international justice is protecting the peace of every family.

Might may be arrogant for a time, but justice will prevail forever. Upholding order means safeguarding the lights of ten thousand homes.

The greatest truths are the simplest; the logic of family and nation is the same. Abiding by rules is upholding peace; protecting order is shielding all living beings. May the world uphold its bottom line, uphold justice, and value order, so that every family may live in peace and every life may enjoy dignity.