Democracy should not be considered as a handpicked ruling model of a few developed countries but a democratic governance right of every country. It is for the people of the country to decide whether a country is a democracy or not.
A Community with Shared Future for Mankind is China’s answer to the call of the time in a world beset by a myriad of challenges and risks, ranging from pandemic, climate change, slow growth, terrorism to protectionism.
China continues to open up its economy for the greater good of the global economy while the WTO stands tall as a willing facilitator.
From the first day of being a WTO member, China has been devoting its all efforts to all WTO activities covering all the three major functions.
It is expected that the summit will polarize the world and new blocks will emerge. It is a bad sign, as the world direly needs cooperation and joint efforts to tackle the issues of pandemic, climate change, food insecurity, shortage of water, and energy.
Democracy is a means, not an end. It is a means to bring good life to all citizens. Democracy should not exist just in form and it has to be substantive.
Washington must drop the idea that US democracy summits and various ad hoc coalitions can replace the United Nations as the core institution of the present international system.
I can only say that China, for all its challenges and complexities, is also an extraordinary teacher. That is, of course, if one is willing to learn!
The fact that President Xi and President Biden were forced to discuss ways of avoiding conflict underscores the perilous state of China-US relations.
The dangers of miscalculation in this already tense region are multiplied when spy missions are apparently undertaken inside national territorial waters.
Climate change makes clear the interconnected nature of humanity and of life itself. It demonstrates the inconsequential nature of national borders and the irrelevance of different national political systems.
Despite many ups and downs since the early 1970s, the U.S. and China have benefited immensely from the political, economic and cultural interactions between the two nations.
