It is indeed very unfortunate that Western politicians and their media, who always boast about democracy and human rights, are surprisingly silent today about Japan’s ‘irresponsible behavior’.
What China pursues is actually a more pragmatic concept of human rights. Chinese people believe the greatest human right of all is the right to a happy life. On this basis, democracy and the rule of law can be improved.
With President Xi Jinping’s announcement of the Global Development Initiative, I think that reemphasized China’s commitment to accelerating SDGs.
China’s history, economic structure, development level and ideological orientation combine to make it a force for peace, for global development, for mutually beneficial cooperation and exchanges with the peoples of the world.
All countries have the right to choose their own paths of human rights development, and different civilizations and countries should respect, conduct exchanges with and learn from each other.
We should anticipate the finger of blame will be consistently pointed at China with suggestions that the country cares little about the health and safety of American citizens.
The creation of new organizations representing the interest of the Global South must do their part in creating a new paradigm in the world, a paradigm of harmony and mutual understanding among nations rather than rancor, fear, and conflict.
GSI’s call is a breath of fresh air in the contemporary global security governance dominated by unilateral sanctions, long arm jurisdiction and antagonistic military pacts.
The GSI is a first-hand practical example of China leading efforts to de-weaponize human rights, and facilitate the right of the peoples around the world to choose ways to develop their type of democracy as well as social and political systems that are aligned to their national conditions.
The U.S. is a prosperous society that cares little about the wellbeing of its most vulnerable.
The imminent danger is that, through narrow self-interest, rich world governments will make the aftermath of the pandemic worse than the pandemic itself.
The salient point of the multiple modernity’s approach is the insight that the logic of modernization can never begin in a tabula rasa, but only within a given dense civilizations as its frame.
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