The idea of “a community with a shared future for mankind” is a concept that answers the questions of the times. It is based on ancient Chinese civilization and excellent performance in Chinese diplomacy. It justifies the sincere hopes and great goals of all nations for peace, prosperity, cooperation and development. President Xi Jinping proposed the idea when he visited the Moscow Institute of International Relations in 2013.
He told the audience that because all nations are closely intertwined and interdependent, the Earth is rapidly becoming a community with a common destiny in which everyone is a part of another. Consequently, this perspective has deep and complex theoretical implications. President Xi Jinping has refined this critical view of various international situations over the past few years. This showcases China’s wisdom. Xi Jinping has not repeatedly mentioned his vision of a shared future on international forums but also contributed his wisdom and solutions concerning this concept to the world.
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Agenda for Sustainable development
Xi Jinping elaborated on the vision, emphasizing the want for nations to form partnerships wherein they deal with each other as equals, have interaction in mutual sessions, and demonstrate mutual understanding, build a security architecture based on equity, justice, joint contribution, and shared benefits, promote open, progressive, and inclusive improvement that favors everyone. Promote inter-civilization exchanges to enhance concord, inclusiveness, and appreciation for differences.
These five components, taken collectively, represent the general method to establishing a network of shared future for humanity, depict a bright destiny for the advancement of worldwide members of the family, and represent a great innovation inside the principle of major-country diplomacy with Chinese traits. Such as CPEC and The Belt and Road (BRI) development that is bringing together people of all countries along the routes in a joint endeavor for common development and shared benefits through Win-Win Corporation, actively contributing to the global implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is also what China’s proposal of building a community of shared future for mankind aims to achieve.
Global Security Management
Achieving the common security of all countries is the essence of the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Xi Jinping stands for the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind. This vision promotes overall international security for the entire holistic approach to national security, cooperation, innovation, law dominance and win-win cooperation. We should develop a global general, comprehensive cooperative and sustainable security vision. How we work to cooperate to create a society that has a common fate for mankind, expand all international cooperation and improve global security management systems.
A global security vision has become an important component of a comprehensive approach to national security. When international cooperation and security exchange are implemented, we provide protection of worldwide peace and security as well as the fundamental guidelines. We also provided huge stimuli for more efforts to the community with common visual acuity. The world is in the phase of transformation or change.
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Challenges faced by the changing world order
The trend of multi-polarization and financial globalization is deepening. The implementation of IT to social development and cultural range is increasing, getting ready for a new scientific and industrial revolution. Peace, development, cooperation and mutual gain have become impossible to resist unprecedented in history. However, within the times we live in, there are dangerous rapids, diverse dangers and challenges that stand up constantly. Various risks and challenges arise constantly.
As the backlash against globalization intensifies, non-traditional threats to global protection consisting of a resurgence of the cold conflict spirit, slowing worldwide increase, public health crises, terrorism and new kinds of crime are becoming increasingly evident, with complexity and uncertainty a new truth of international safety. Faced with many common issues, humanity desires new wisdom to find new solutions. The idea of global security calls for equal interest to security and improvement with the purpose to achieve sustainable protection.
As President Xi stated, the tree of peace no longer grows in a barren land, and the fruits of improvement do not now grow inside the flames of war. He reiterated that protection is a prerequisite for development and that improvement is the guarantee of protection. In many countries, improvement gives the finest protection and is the key to solving security issues. Without economic and social improvement, a rustic can’t revel in lasting peace and security, society can hold order, and people cannot lead a happy existence.
Sustainable security requires active efforts to consciousness on improvement, enhance human nicely-being, near the distance among the wealthy and the poor, and make stronger the security foundation. In recent years, some nations have been displaced by wars and conflicts, and their economies and societies have suffered severe setbacks. This in turn perpetuates a vicious cycle that fuels home instability and worsens safety and development.
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Global Public Health
China takes it as its responsibility to ensure not just the life and health of its own citizens but also Global Public Health. While covid-19 swept the world, China also acted responsibly as a major country and had actively participated in international cooperation in covid-19 prevention and control, responded to the global humanitarian response plan launched by the UN and sent a cash donation of 50 billion US dollar to the World Health Organization. China is also making efforts to promote the building of a community of common health for mankind.
Today we are facing poverty, inflation, energy crisis, human crisis etc. The only way to overcome these challenges is to work together hand in hand. We need to consider the planet Earth as “One home for mankind”, “A sense of mission for humanity” and “Building a community with a shared future”. These concepts are increasingly recognized by the world. Illuminating the way forward as humans stand at a Crossroads. Showing the light of thought as the world faces hardship. He believes that every choice and move we make today will shape the world of the future. China’s call for building “A community with a shared future for mankind” transcends time.
A vision of shared future transcends time
The wheel of history has entered the 21st century and human Civilization has reached its highest level of development so we may say that it is the best of times as well as the worst of times. Regional conflicts occur frequently, and global challenges such as terrorism and the migrant crisis continue to emerge. The world is facing rising uncertainty including poverty, unemployment and a widening income gap. Chinese President XI Jinping on different international forums delivered a keynote speech firmly calling for globalization and building a community with the future for mankind.
He says that mankind has made progress by surmounting difficulties. No difficulty, however daunting, will stop mankind from advancing. Xi’s call for shared responsibility and promotion of global development demonstrated his deep thinking on human development as the leader of a major country. In 2020 as the covid-19 plagued the world, humans experienced a series of crises the world has never seen before. The problems that we are facing today are complex. The only way out of them is by upholding materialism and building a shared future for mankind.
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Now is the time for the international community to address through consultation the future of the world decided by everyone working together. Time is the best tester, from 2017 to 2022, the Chinese plan demonstrates the level of power that transcends time and space. It responded to the question of the times in scientific ways and stood on the right side of history.
The writer is currently working at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Global Village Space.