The global vaccination cooperation ultimately is not a competition for “dominance” or “politics,” nor is it about the profits of big companies. First and foremost it is about saving lives, and only if countries are prepared to work together and put their differences aside does the world stand a chance of returning to normality.
It will be interesting to see how much the micro-credential movement will disrupt and change the landscape of traditional tertiary education or be integrated with them and become part of a less linear, more flexible, cost effective and tailored form of lifelong learning better designed to meet the needs for constant re-skilling of the workforce for a Fourth Industrial Revolution and Information Age.
As the world’s largest developing country, and at a critical stage in its own development, China is committed to completing the world’s most dramatic reduction in carbon emissions and realizing carbon neutrality in the shortest time ever recorded.
The more we understand about space, the more we understand about our own planet. Subsequently, as we develop technologies aimed at solving the problems and challenges of space, this in turn contributes to innovation and development on Earth too.
China’s immediate goals have always concerned advocating a “peaceful rise” aimed at securing its own prosperity and development, and subsequently is now lending that opportunity to other countries too as a multilateral initiative.
China’s digitization drive aims to build a digital culture and should not be seen in isolation. It is part of a holistic and gigantic effort to achieve the second centenary goal of building a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious by 2049.
This is thus not a politics of “blame” or “shaming” but it is an invitation to work together as an international community on a set of common goals and standards.
Beijing has pulled itself out of a COVID-19 global slump with immense efficiency and has done so without having to pump trillions in stimulus into the economy in the way the EU, the U.K. and the U.S. have done.
China’s vaccine support to countries all around the world has made a crucial difference when other countries have failed to do so, or countries earmarked to try and counter that have fallen back into severe crisis.
As China has entered a new era of development, its endeavors to promote further opening up will help it establish better connections with the rest of the world and enable China to share more opportunities for win-win cooperation with other countries, thus to foster global economic growth and prosperity.
In essence, China has been an anchor and facilitator within the global recovery. Its economy has shown resilience and endurance through one of the deepest crises on record and has still been able to come out with an optimistic picture.
This program may give the U.S. economy a short-term boost, yet the gridlock of Congressional politics and the inevitable wheel and deal of the system needs it ill-fated as a long-term vision “once in a generation” is quite an apt way to describe it.
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