China’s Efforts for Greater Cross-Civilizational Understanding
Cross-cultural respect, dialogue and cooperation will much more likely deliver prosperity than zero-sum cultural chauvinism.
Cross-cultural respect, dialogue and cooperation will much more likely deliver prosperity than zero-sum cultural chauvinism.
Insofar as the future becomes a binary choice between Chinese and Western culture – a false model denying cultural traditions to over half of humanity – history favors the former.
China’s initiatives on global development and security can play a crucial role in establishing a safer, healthier world.
It is the spirit of a community of shared future, the only viable option for humanity.
As the world faces increasingly complex challenges, President Xi’s vision for a Global Civilization Initiative offers a pathway towards a more harmonious and prosperous future.
Given the geopolitical times we live in today and the demand for new cooperation platforms that reflect the emerging ‘multipolarity’ of global affairs, the SCO is only likely to grow in importance.
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 BRI represents a large-scale systematization of the concept of win-win relations coined by Chinese diplomacy.
This is what China’s modernization has presented: a new way to modernize. That is a gift. Simply proving that socialism works in creating economic and social progress gives 200 nations around the world a different choice.
The U.S. is a prosperous society that cares little about the wellbeing of its most vulnerable.