Strive to build a safer world
The more turbulent the world is, the more powerful it needs to stabilize people’s hearts.
At present, changes in the world, times and history are unfolding in an unprecedented way, and the international community is experiencing rare multiple risk challenges. Faced with the intricacies of traditional and non-traditional security challenges, hegemonic bullying is extremely harmful. "What kind of security concept does the world need and how countries can achieve common security" has become an issue of the times before everyone.
"Security is the premise of development, and human beings are an inseparable security community." On April 21, 2022, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader solemnly put forward the global security initiative at the opening ceremony of the 2022 annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia, which provided a Chinese plan to make up for the peace deficit and solve the security dilemma. Over the past year, under the guidance of the core concepts and principles of the Global Security Initiative, China has actively promoted political solutions to international and regional hotspot issues, committed to cooperation with all parties, and achieved a series of progress and achievements, which have been widely praised and positively responded by the international community, and contributed China’s strength to promoting the building of a human security community.
Pointing the way for the peaceful development of mankind with new ideas
Security concerns the well-being of people of all countries, the lofty cause of world peace and development, and the future and destiny of mankind.
History tells us that peace is the common cause of mankind and needs to be fought for and maintained by all parties. Only when everyone cherishes and maintains peace, and only when everyone remembers the painful lessons of war, can there be hope for peace. In the face of a turbulent world, we should not forget the original intention of the UN Charter and the mission of safeguarding peace.
At present, regional security hot issues are one after another, local conflicts and turmoil are frequent, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and various traditional and non-traditional security threats are intertwined. The international community urgently needs to point the way for the peaceful development of mankind with new ideas and promote the maintenance of global peace and security with new programs — —
"The most powerful force to rush out of the fog to the light is to work together, and the most effective way is to work together." The Chairman of the Supreme Leader put forward the global security initiative, advocating the spirit of unity to adapt to the profoundly adjusted international situation and the win-win thinking to deal with complex and intertwined security challenges, aiming at eliminating the root causes of international conflicts, improving global security governance, pushing the international community to join hands to inject more stability and certainty into the turbulent and changing times, and contributing China wisdom and China’s strength to the realization of lasting world peace.
Adhere to the common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept; Insist on respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries; Adhere to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter; Adhere to the legitimate security concerns of all countries; Insist on resolving differences and disputes between countries by peaceful means through dialogue and consultation; Adhere to the overall planning and maintenance of security in traditional and non-traditional fields. "Six Persistences" are interrelated and echo each other.
Over the past year, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader has deeply interpreted the era meaning of the global security initiative on many international occasions, and promoted this international public product to better benefit the cause of human peace and development — —
"China is willing to work with BRICS partners to promote the effectiveness of global security initiatives, adhere to the common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept, and embark on a new security road of dialogue without confrontation, partnership without alliance, win-win rather than zero-sum, and inject stability and positive energy into the world."
"China has always adhered to the correct concept of justice and interests and the true and sincere concept to develop relations with Africa. It is willing to work with African friends to adhere to the common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept, safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core, safeguard international fairness and justice, and promote the implementation of global security initiatives and build a community of destiny between China and Africa in the new era."
"In order to make up for the peace deficit and solve the global security dilemma, China has proposed a global security initiative, advocating that all countries uphold a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept and promote the construction of a balanced, effective and sustainable security architecture."
"China welcomes Albania’s participation in global security initiatives and is willing to continue to contribute China wisdom to promoting peace and tranquility in the Middle East."
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From putting forward the Asian security concept at the fourth AsiaInfo Summit in 2014 to expounding China’s new security concept during the G 20 Hangzhou Summit in 2016; From expounding how to build a world of lasting peace and universal security at the United Nations Headquarters in 2017 to proposing a global security initiative in 2022, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader has a profound insight into the general trend of world development, constantly develops and improves the security concept with China characteristics, and points out the way forward and the path of cooperation for solving the global security dilemma.
In the eyes of international people, the global security initiative conforms to the common aspiration of the international community for peace, development and cooperation — —
Former Slovenian President Turk said that the global security initiative was put forward at the right time and provided a strong conceptual framework for global security dialogue and cooperation; Daniel Almeida, chairman of the Pakistan-China Friendship Group of the Brazilian Federal House of Representatives, believes that the global security initiative is "a powerful weapon to defend the common values of all mankind"; Keith Bennett, vice-chairman of 48 group clubs in Britain, stressed that the proposal of global security initiative shows China’s sense of responsibility and long-term vision as a big country, which is committed to promoting the construction of a safer world … … The international community has seen that, as a responsible big country, China has continuously injected valuable "peace power" into international relations and global governance.
Make unremitting efforts to maintain world peace and security
March 10, 2023, Beijing. The history of peace in the Middle East and the world has left a strong impression.
On the same day, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran signed and issued a joint statement, announcing that Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to resume diplomatic relations, stressing that the three parties will work together to safeguard the basic norms of international relations and promote international peace and security. The peaceful move, which is highly praised by the international community, has become a successful practice of effectively implementing global security initiatives. Facts have also proved that adhering to the common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept, taking building a security community as the long-term goal, and taking a new type of security road of dialogue without confrontation, partnership without alliance, and win-win rather than zero-sum is the long-term strategy for seeking long-term stability in the region and the world.
Manoj Kwalras Mani, an expert on China issues at the Indian think tank Takshahira Institution, said that China’s global security initiative is intended to "persist in resolving differences and disputes between countries through dialogue and consultation" and "support all efforts that are conducive to peaceful resolution of the crisis".
Over the past year, the international situation has been turbulent and hot issues have emerged one after another. Global security initiatives have continuously injected positive energy into resolving contradictions and differences, providing a feasible remedy for dispelling the crisis.
In February this year, China issued the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative, which explained the core concepts and principles of the Global Security Initiative, defined 20 key cooperation directions and five types of cooperation platforms and mechanisms, marked an important step towards the practice and implementation of the Global Security Initiative, and demonstrated China’s responsibility for maintaining world peace and firm determination to protect global security.
On February 24th, China issued the document "China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukrainian Crisis", which absorbed the reasonable concerns of all parties, reflected the greatest common denominator of the international community on the Ukrainian crisis, and played a constructive role in alleviating the spillover of the crisis and promoting the political settlement. Dujaric, spokesman of the UN Secretary-General, called this document an "important contribution".
On April 12th, China issued the document "China’s Position on Afghanistan", covering adhering to the "three respects" and "three noes", supporting Afghanistan’s moderate and steady governance, peaceful reconstruction, and resolute and powerful fight against terrorism, calling for strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation in counter-terrorism and cooperating to crack down on the "three forces" in Afghanistan, urging the United States to earnestly take responsibility for Afghanistan’s performance, opposing foreign forces’ intervention and infiltration into Afghanistan, enhancing international and regional coordination on Afghanistan, and helping to solve Afghanistan. Saifullo Safarov, president of Tajik Politicians Association, said that China is the guarantor of regional security and stability. China’s position paper will play an important role in rebuilding peace and order, security and stability in Afghanistan, and will also help maintain regional peace and stability. It is one of the most constructive documents to solve the Afghan problem.
"The Global Security Initiative has foresight and global thinking, and provides important ideas for dealing with global security challenges." Atatug Gere, director of the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Gedik University, believes that if the international community can handle all kinds of security issues through consultation according to the contents of the Global Security Initiative, the future world will be more peaceful, "otherwise we will never get rid of the threat of war".
The international community has seen that China has always been a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of international order, a provider of public goods and a mediator of hot issues. On the issue of war and peace, China stands on the side of peace; Between unilateral sanctions and dialogue and negotiation, China stands on the side of dialogue and negotiation; Between pouring oil on the arch fire and cooling down the fire, China stood on the side of cooling down the fire. To uphold justice, seek peace and take a long-term view, China has always stood on the right side of history and on the side of human civilization and progress, opposed hegemonism and power politics, and worked with the international community to protect human peace and tranquility.
In the past 10 years, from putting forward the four-point proposal to solve the Palestinian issue and the five-point initiative to promote peace and stability in the Middle East to actively promoting the resumption of negotiations on the implementation of the comprehensive Iranian nuclear agreement, China has always been responsible for regional and world peace, adhered to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, consistently upheld fairness and justice, and made unremitting efforts to safeguard world peace and security.
Deeply involved in international cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism, digital governance, biosafety and climate change, and joined almost all universal intergovernmental international organizations; More than 50,000 UN peacekeepers have been dispatched, ranking first among the permanent members of the UN Security Council. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, more than 2.2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been provided to more than 120 countries and international organizations; The total number of patients treated by foreign aid medical teams reached 290 million & HELIP; … In the face of global challenges, China firmly shoulders the responsibility of a big country and injects strong positive energy into maintaining world peace, security and stability.
A few days ago, China and Brazil signed a joint statement on tackling climate change, and the two sides decided to strengthen cooperation in environmental protection, tackling climate change and biodiversity loss, promoting sustainable development and accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy. In 2015, when the negotiation of the Paris Agreement was deadlocked, it was China that issued a joint statement on climate change with the United States, France and the European Union, while China, India, Brazil and South Africa, as the "basic four countries", issued a joint statement on climate change, finding a landing point and a bridging plan for issues with big differences, and promoting the Paris Conference on Climate Change to achieve important results and reach a landmark Paris Agreement. In 2020, when the COVID-19 epidemic spread, global economic growth slowed down and the climate crisis intertwined, China announced that carbon dioxide emissions would reach the peak by 2030, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. This important measure strongly supports the green recovery initiative put forward by the United Nations and encourages other countries to put forward strong climate action targets.
In December last year, the second phase of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted "Kunming — The Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (hereinafter referred to as "the Framework") draws a new blueprint for global biodiversity governance until 2030 and beyond. As the president of COP15, China has spared no effort to play a leading and coordinating role. In October, 2021, China hosted the COP15 Leaders Summit. The leaders of nine parties to the Convention, including the Chairman of the Supreme Leader, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations attended and delivered speeches, which injected strong political impetus into the conference. China promoted the adoption of the Kunming Declaration at the first high-level meeting of the General Assembly, which pointed out the correct direction for solving the problem of biodiversity loss. From the first phase of COP15 to the opening of the second phase, China hosted nearly 40 meetings of the presidium of the Convention and more than 100 bilateral and multilateral meetings at different levels to promote consensus among all parties. China has also made full use of important occasions and opportunities such as the United Nations, the G20 and the Sharm el-Sheikh Conference on Climate Change to communicate and coordinate with all parties to promote the success of the second phase of the conference. Elizabeth Murema, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, said that the achievement of the Framework "is not only a victory for China, but also a victory for the world led by China".
"China has always adhered to fulfilling its international responsibilities and is firmly a defender of the international order." Weng Shijie, Chairman of Malaysian Center for Strategic Studies in New Asia, said that the global security initiative meets the needs of reality and the demands of countries and people who love peaceful development.
In the more grand world historical coordinate system, the global security initiative reflects the pursuit and desire of human society for peace. As former French Prime Minister raffarin said, China is "a force for peace that the world needs today".
With the continuous promotion of China’s ideas such as the Global Security Initiative, the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom have been deeply rooted in people’s hearts, and building a world with lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, tolerance, cleanliness and beauty has become the common pursuit of more and more countries.
Let unity replace division, cooperation replace confrontation, and inclusion replace exclusion.
We live in an era full of challenges and hopes.
Over the past year, the international community has deeply realized that the global security initiative conforms to the common aspiration of people of all countries to build a world of lasting peace and universal security. Mankind is a community of destiny that shares weal and woe. Facing common challenges, there is only one way out: mutual help and harmonious coexistence. No difficulties and twists and turns can stop the wheel of historical progress. Based on the fact that human beings are an inseparable security community, the Global Security Initiative has pointed out the way forward for all countries in the world to embark on a road of joint construction, sharing and win-win security.
Up to now, more than 80 countries and regional organizations have expressed their appreciation and support for the Global Security Initiative, which has been clearly written into more than 20 bilateral and multilateral documents on China’s exchanges with relevant countries and organizations. International people believe that this important initiative aims at achieving common security and sustainable security and is a major contribution to maintaining global security. "Through this initiative, China seeks to find a balanced relationship that can maintain world peace before some countries fall into war and conflict." Dia Hermi, Secretary-General of the Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, said that the Global Security Initiative has injected confidence and impetus into the maintenance and realization of global security, and demonstrated China’s role as a big country in safeguarding world peace and stability and practicing fairness and justice.
Over the past year, the international community has deeply realized that the global security initiative is rooted in the excellent Chinese traditional culture that values peace and comes from China’s independent foreign policy and practice of peace. China’s initiative to build a community of human destiny, jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative, global development initiative, global security initiative and global civilization initiative is to make unity replace division, cooperation replace confrontation and inclusion replace exclusion, and jointly build a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, tolerance and beauty.
According to Eduardo Regalado, an expert on China at the Center for International Political Studies in Cuba, despite the complicated and severe international situation, China firmly defends multilateralism, firmly upholds the international system with the United Nations at the core and the international order based on international law, resolutely opposes all forms of hegemonism and power politics, promotes the development of global governance in a more just and rational direction, and promotes the building of a community of human destiny, thus playing a more important role in maintaining world peace and stability.
"Every important initiative put forward by the Chairman of the Supreme Leader is an appeal for peace, sense of responsibility, sustainable and harmonious development." Novikov, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Russian communist party, said, "Turning the concept of building a community of human destiny into reality is the key to building a just world order."
"Building a community of human destiny is the fundamental solution to the security challenges in traditional and non-traditional fields." Luo Siyi, former director of the London Economic and Commercial Policy Department, believes that in the face of the century epidemic, climate change, food security, refugee crisis and other issues, the concept of building a community of human destiny responds to the common expectations of all mankind and is applicable to various political systems.
The development of China cannot be separated from a secure international environment. Similarly, there is no security in the world without security in China. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China（CPC） proposed to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way with Chinese modernization. Chinese-style modernization is not only based on its own national conditions but also draws lessons from the experience of other countries. It not only inherits history and culture, but also integrates modern civilization, which not only benefits the people of China but also promotes the common development of the world. It is the only way for China to build a strong country and rejuvenate its nation, and it is also the only way for China to seek human progress and world harmony.
Chinese-style modernization does not take the old road of colonial plunder, does not take the crooked road that the country will dominate, and takes the right path of peaceful development. China advocates bridging differences through dialogue and resolving disputes through cooperation, resolutely opposes all forms of hegemonism and power politics, and advocates coping with complex and intertwined security challenges with a spirit of unity and win-win thinking, so as to create a fair and just security pattern of joint construction and sharing. China’s modernization is the growth of world peace and international justice. Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said: "A strong and friendly China will have a positive impact on the region and the world and help small and medium-sized countries achieve common development."
"A world that is United rather than divided, peaceful rather than turbulent is in the common interest of all mankind." China’s consistent proposition shows the value of the times and the world significance more and more at present. Looking forward to the future, the world has reason to believe that China, which is accelerating its Chinese-style modernization, will surely promote global security initiatives to bear more fruits, contribute to the building of a community of human security and human destiny, and bring new dawn to the realization of lasting peace and universal security for human society.