The Chinese Concept: A Shared Future for Mankind

From Here Comes China Newsletter by Godfree Roberts

The concept of a community of shared future for mankind embodies five elements:

1. insist on dialogue and consultation to build a world of lasting peace
2. insist on co-construction and shared benefits to build a universally secure world
3. insist on win-win cooperation and build a world of common prosperity
4. insist on exchanges and mutual learning to build an open and inclusive world
5. insist on green and low-carbon development and build a clean and beautiful world

The policy initiatives to achieve this

• BRI takes interconnection as its focus, promotes policy communication, infrastructure connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and people-to-people linkages between countries and regions, and opens up a path of common, win-win, and shared development.
• GDI calls for prioritising development and building a global partnership for development featuring unity, equality, balance and inclusiveness.
• GSI calls on all countries to uphold the concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security; promote the building of an indivisible global security community; and find a new security path, featuring dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and win-win cooperation rather than zero-sum contestation.
• GCI advocates tolerance and coexistence among different civilizations, exchanges and mutual learning, and strives to create a new situation of humanities exchanges, cultural intermingling and people-to-people exchanges.

The concept from a values perspective

The common values of mankind – peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom – are the common pursuit of people of all countries. We should be highly responsible for the future and destiny of mankind, advocate the common values of mankind, understand the value connotation of different civilizations with a broad mind, and refrain from imposing our own values and models on others and engaging in ideological confrontation. This provides ideological support for countries to transcend differences in values and ideologies and realise exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and provides value guidance for building a community with a shared future for mankind.

The concept is based on Marxist ideas on world history and the worldview nurtured by the excellent Chinese traditional culture. It unifies the future destiny of the Chinese nation with the future development of human society, and unifies the realisation of national rejuvenation and the promotion of human progress into the great practice of the new era. This concept, which provides a new paradigm for the coexistence of different civilizations, a new vision for global governance, a new concept for international interactions, and new plans for coping with common challenges, is an innovation that transcends of the traditional views on power, interests, development, governance, and order in international relations.”

One practical implication of this concept is advocating true multilateralism, opposing unilateralism and protectionism, firmly safeguarding the international system with the United Nations at the core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and support for expanding the representation and voice of developing countries in international affairs.”

Tracking People’s Daily. Gao Zugui is the dean of the International Strategic Studies Institute at the Central Party School.

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Defense

Over 20 intense battles, Chinese forces sank the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier fleet with a volley of 24 hypersonic anti-ship missiles, in a simulation run on a mainstream war game software platform used by China’s military. In the scenario, the US vessels are attacked after continuing to approach a China-claimed island in the South China Sea despite repeated warnings. Read full article →

Half of the Chinese support a full-scale war to take control of Taiwan, according to a new survey of 1,824 people found mixed public attitudes, with a third opposing “launching a unification war to take back Taiwan entirely”, and the remainder saying they were unsure. Read full article →

Russia has helped China create an early missile warning system that drastically enhances its defensive capacity. Now stations in the North and West of Russia can provide China with warning data and, in turn, China can provide Russia with data collected at their Eastern and Southern stations, and the two could create their own global missile defence network. Read full article →

On a global scale, what would a world digital brain do? Where would decisions be made and how would they be taken? What does it mean if various military brains face each other? Will there ever be a world military brain? Would it be based on the world’s city brains, the world’s military brains, or both? Read full article →

“The PLA has requested the creation of a 15-20km buffer zone inside India-claimed lines on the st­rategic Depsang Plains as a pr­econdition for disengagement, refusing India’s offer of a 3-4km demilitarised strip.” Read full article →

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