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China’s ‘Shared Future’
The U.S. fears that China's growth will lead to a competition between the countries over hegemony on earth.
But China rejects hegemony. No only the one the U.S. is obviously trying to achieve but, more general, also for itself.
Yesterday the Global Times editorial pointed to a new guideline paper issued by China's State Council:
On September 26, China's State Council Information Office released a white paper titled "A Global Community of Shared Future: China's Proposals and Actions." Against the backdrop of the 10th anniversary of President Xi Jinping's proposal of building a global community of shared future, China has introduced the theoretical base, practice and development of a global community of shared future, and points the way toward a better future for the world. Anyone, be they are developing countries seeking to learn from China or individuals from Western countries who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of China, will find inspiration in it as long as they approach it without biased views.
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Human society is now facing a "life-or-death choice:" whether to enter into a vicious cycle of continuous confrontation and division or to seek a path of cooperation and win-win, ultimately allowing more than 7 billion people to have a better life. The whole world is searching for answers. This also confirms the highly prescient and forward-looking nature of the concept of a global community of shared future.
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Today's world has become a community of shared future, with countries riding together on a ship of shared fate. A small boat cannot withstand the wind and waves, only a giant vessel can withstand the stormy seas. No matter how powerful a country may be, it cannot dominate the world alone and must engage in global cooperation.
As the white paper says, "This is an integrated world. Those who turn their back on it will have no place in it." In such a world, the true power that transcends time is contained in the silent and subtle ideas, just like the practical greatness demonstrated by the concept of global community of shared future.
The paper is available here.
It is 22,000 words long but quite readable. It is a recipe for a just and equalitarian world that will peacefully develop for everyone while allowing for a diversity of cultures and ideologies. It is thus building on China's decade old concept of a Community of Common Destiny for Mankind.
The most interesting part is probably this paragraph:
There is no iron law that dictates that a rising power will inevitably seek hegemony. This assumption represents typical hegemonic thinking and is grounded in memories of catastrophic wars between hegemonic powers in the past. China has never accepted that once a country becomes strong enough, it will invariably seek hegemony. China understands the lesson of history – that hegemony preludes decline. We pursue development and revitalization through our own efforts, rather than invasion or expansion. And everything we do is for the purpose of providing a better life for our people, all the while creating more development opportunities for the entire world, not in order to supersede or subjugate others.
Other strategic statements by China, like the one issued in 2013 that laid the ground for its Belt and Road program, had been dismissed when they were issued. But the record shows that China acts on such programs exactly as its papers promise to do. It profits from doing so.
Is its thesis in this new paper, that hegemony preludes decline, valid?
Should we therefore trust its claims that it rejects hegemony, not only of others but also for itself?
China’s decade old concept
Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away movement of the stars circling the VOID remembered as World War (among descentants, heirs, and assignees of Hapsburg kingdoms) began to coalesce into NEW! spheres of “influence” —OPEC (1960 FTA), OAU/AU55 (1963/2002 FTA), ASEAN (1967 FTA), OIC (1969 NGO)—
Then what happened?
In 1974 Deng Xiaoping/Teng Hsiao-Ping took the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order to the UNGA.
1. The greatest and most significant achievement during the last decades has been the independence from colonial and alien domination of a large number of peoples and nations which has enabled them to become members of the community of free peoples. Technological progress has also been made in all spheres of economic activities in the last three decades, thus providing a solid potential for improving the well-being of all peoples. However, the remaining vestiges of alien and colonial domination, foreign occupation, racial discrimination, apartheid, and neo-colonialism in all its forms continue to be among the greatest obstacles to the full emancipation and progress of the developing countries and all the peoples involved…..
2. The present international economic order is in direct conflict with curren development in international political and economic relations. Since 1970, the world economy has experienced a series of grave crises which have had severe repercussions, especially on the developing countries because of their generally greater vulnerability to external economic impulses….
3. All these changes have thrust into prominence the reality of interdependence of all the members of the world community. Current events [OPEC embargo, 2nd Bretton Woods collapse] have brought into sharp focus the realization that the interests of the developed countries and those of the developing countries can no longer be isolated from each other, that there is a close interrelationship between the prosperity of the developed countries and the prosperity of the international community as a whole depends on the prosperity of its constituent parts. International co-operation for development is the shared goal and common duty of all countries.
4. The new international economic order should be founded on full respect for the following principles: …
5. The unanimous adoption of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade was an important step in the promotion of international economic co-operation on a just and equitable basis….
6. The United Nations as a universal organization should be capable of dealing with problems of international economic co-operation in a comprehensive manner and ensuring equally the interests of all countries….
7. The present Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order shall be one of the most important bases of economic relations between all peoples and all nations….
Then what happened (other than serial “advanced economy” value chain bankruptcy, Global Wars on Trrrsm, and ineffectual “de-radicalization” arbitrage)?
ROW formed more mutual aid societies—APEC (1989 FTA), SCO (2001 NGO), BRICS (2009 FTA), EaEU (2012 FTA)—despite a hastily arranged conference of the G20 (1999 NGO) by the nine heads of the G7 to rehabilitate financial TIES! LINKS! SUPPLY CHAINS! with their bare-foot, perpetually pregnant “third-country” uhh partners.
Then what happened (other than fortification of the willing d/b/a the Price Cap Coalition, “home to many best-in-class financial and professional services”)?
This new year, one the most ignorant “outlets” of imperial highjinks rallied stakeholders around a memo sent by Sam Olsen, CEO of The Evenstar Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in London, and co-host of the “What China Wants” LOL! podcast.
… Recent research LOL! by The Evenstar Institute, a London-based think tank, shows how much influence China has over third-party LOL! countries that are vital for the West’s supply chain. Take Cambodia, which the Evenstar influence model LOL! shows is almost a client state of China; it is also an important provider of uniforms to the British and other militaries. Indeed, China is a critical supplier of components and raw materials to countries that are vital for Western interests….
Then what happened (other than rapid dissipation of advanced economies’ “stategic autonomy” FKA hegemony)?
In the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Messrs. Putin and Xi, two heads of state joined to two WB-certified upper middle-income states, committed to “wide-ranging cooperation and significant strides into the new era”.
Then what happened (other than this epiphany: “We cannot change the geology in Europe”)?
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg memorialized Mr. Olsen’s sentimental appeal to crush competition wherever it lurks.
[…]
ZDF: Thanks. Secretary General, I have a more general question on China. As the view on China changed, are you ready to change, or is NATO ready to change the Strategic Concept towards China?
Stoltenberg: No. The reality is that the “Strategic Concept” we agreed in Madrid reflects NATO’s or, as I say, a new recognition of what China means for our security, because I think we need to realize that NATO has come a long way when it comes to China. In the “Strategic Concept” we had until last summer, China was not mentioned with a single word. Then, in the “Strategic Concept” we agreed in Madrid, in June last year, we made important decisions. We don’t regard China as an adversary. But we stated clearly in the “Strategic Concept” that China’s assertive behaviour poses a challenge to our interests, our values, our security….
Then what happened?
President Xi Jinping Attempted to Communicate the importance of international cooperation to French President Emmanuel Macron
Then what happened?
Posted by: sln2002 | Sep 28 2023 17:43 utc | 297
China’s decade old concept
Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away movement of the stars circling the VOID remembered as World War (among descentants, heirs, and assignees of Hapsburg kingdoms) began to coalesce into NEW! spheres of “influence” —OPEC (1960 FTA), OAU/AU55 (1963/2002 FTA), ASEAN (1967 FTA), OIC (1969 NGO)—
Then what happened?
In 1974 Deng Xiaoping/Teng Hsiao-Ping took the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order to the UNGA.
1. The greatest and most significant achievement during the last decades has been the independence from colonial and alien domination of a large number of peoples and nations which has enabled them to become members of the community of free peoples. Technological progress has also been made in all spheres of economic activities in the last three decades, thus providing a solid potential for improving the well-being of all peoples. However, the remaining vestiges of alien and colonial domination, foreign occupation, racial discrimination, apartheid, and neo-colonialism in all its forms continue to be among the greatest obstacles to the full emancipation and progress of the developing countries and all the peoples involved…..
2. The present international economic order is in direct conflict with curren development in international political and economic relations. Since 1970, the world economy has experienced a series of grave crises which have had severe repercussions, especially on the developing countries because of their generally greater vulnerability to external economic impulses….
3. All these changes have thrust into prominence the reality of interdependence of all the members of the world community. Current events [OPEC embargo, 2nd Bretton Woods collapse] have brought into sharp focus the realization that the interests of the developed countries and those of the developing countries can no longer be isolated from each other, that there is a close interrelationship between the prosperity of the developed countries and the prosperity of the international community as a whole depends on the prosperity of its constituent parts. International co-operation for development is the shared goal and common duty of all countries.
4. The new international economic order should be founded on full respect for the following principles: …
5. The unanimous adoption of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade was an important step in the promotion of international economic co-operation on a just and equitable basis….
6. The United Nations as a universal organization should be capable of dealing with problems of international economic co-operation in a comprehensive manner and ensuring equally the interests of all countries….
7. The present Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order shall be one of the most important bases of economic relations between all peoples and all nations….
Then what happened (other than serial “advanced economy” value chain bankruptcy, Global Wars on Trrrsm, and ineffectual “de-radicalization” arbitrage)?
ROW formed more mutual aid societies—APEC (1989 FTA), SCO (2001 NGO), BRICS (2009 FTA), EaEU (2012 FTA)—despite a hastily arranged conference of the G20 (1999 NGO) by the nine heads of the G7 to rehabilitate financial TIES! LINKS! SUPPLY CHAINS! with their bare-foot, perpetually pregnant “third-country” uhh partners.
Then what happened (other than fortification of the willing d/b/a the Price Cap Coalition, “home to many best-in-class financial and professional services”)?
This new year, one the most ignorant “outlets” of imperial highjinks rallied stakeholders around a memo sent by Sam Olsen, CEO of The Evenstar Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in London, and co-host of the “What China Wants” LOL! podcast.
… Recent research LOL! by The Evenstar Institute, a London-based think tank, shows how much influence China has over third-party LOL! countries that are vital for the West’s supply chain. Take Cambodia, which the Evenstar influence model LOL! shows is almost a client state of China; it is also an important provider of uniforms to the British and other militaries. Indeed, China is a critical supplier of components and raw materials to countries that are vital for Western interests….
Then what happened (other than rapid dissipation of advanced economies’ “stategic autonomy” FKA hegemony)?
In the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Messrs. Putin and Xi, two heads of state joined to two WB-certified upper middle-income states, committed to “wide-ranging cooperation and significant strides into the new era”.
Then what happened (other than this epiphany: “We cannot change the geology in Europe”)?
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg memorialized Mr. Olsen’s sentimental appeal to crush competition wherever it lurks.
[…]
ZDF: Thanks. Secretary General, I have a more general question on China. As the view on China changed, are you ready to change, or is NATO ready to change the Strategic Concept towards China?
Stoltenberg: No. The reality is that the “Strategic Concept” we agreed in Madrid reflects NATO’s or, as I say, a new recognition of what China means for our security, because I think we need to realize that NATO has come a long way when it comes to China. In the “Strategic Concept” we had until last summer, China was not mentioned with a single word. Then, in the “Strategic Concept” we agreed in Madrid, in June last year, we made important decisions. We don’t regard China as an adversary. But we stated clearly in the “Strategic Concept” that China’s assertive behaviour poses a challenge to our interests, our values, our security….
Then what happened?
President Xi Jinping Attempted to Communicate the importance of international cooperation to French President Emmanuel Macron
Then what happened?
Posted by: sln2002 | Sep 28 2023 17:43 utc | 298
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