Hopefully, as the months wear on and President Biden’s domestic crises abate, he will return to the position he has expressed in the past, allowing that “China is not our enemy.” Or he may feel compelled by political pressure to continue to challenge China.
It is a common cause for humanity to combat climate change. The global efforts in this regard can be taken as a mirror for humans to reflect on what models are suitable for future global governance and how to build a community of a shared future for all humanity.
China strives to make its due contribution to world peace and development as a major country. It never engages in aggression or expansion, never seeks hegemony, and remains a staunch force for upholding regional and world peace and stability.
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.
Strict control should be conducted over coal consumption and efforts should be made to achieve the peaking of coal consumption as soon as possible.
Beijing’s ambitions and actions provide a new paradigm for the world in its battle to contain the climate crisis.
The concept of “building a community with a shared future for mankind” is a reinterpretation of universalism in the Western style and may usher in a new era of world enlightenment, not to mention new enlightenment in the face of a West that is increasingly immersed in the shadows of xenophobia, populism, anti-science discourse, violence, internal division, protectionism, unilateralism, and fake news.
If competition with the U.S. becomes inevitable, then it should be managed properly to avoid any hard confrontation, a prerequisite for China’s overall development.
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.
In many ways, China’s success is due to the quality of its decision-making process and efficiency of policy execution, which make the Chinese state far more responsive to the needs of the people than the Western model, as shown clearly in China’s resolute fight against COVID-19.
We cannot tackle common challenges in a divided world, and confrontation will lead us to a dead end.
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.
