The more we understand about space, the more we understand about our own planet. Subsequently, as we develop technologies aimed at solving the problems and challenges of space, this in turn contributes to innovation and development on Earth too.
China’s immediate goals have always concerned advocating a “peaceful rise” aimed at securing its own prosperity and development, and subsequently is now lending that opportunity to other countries too as a multilateral initiative.
China’s digitization drive aims to build a digital culture and should not be seen in isolation. It is part of a holistic and gigantic effort to achieve the second centenary goal of building a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious by 2049.
This is thus not a politics of “blame” or “shaming” but it is an invitation to work together as an international community on a set of common goals and standards.
Beijing has pulled itself out of a COVID-19 global slump with immense efficiency and has done so without having to pump trillions in stimulus into the economy in the way the EU, the U.K. and the U.S. have done.
China’s vaccine support to countries all around the world has made a crucial difference when other countries have failed to do so, or countries earmarked to try and counter that have fallen back into severe crisis.
As China has entered a new era of development, its endeavors to promote further opening up will help it establish better connections with the rest of the world and enable China to share more opportunities for win-win cooperation with other countries, thus to foster global economic growth and prosperity.
In essence, China has been an anchor and facilitator within the global recovery. Its economy has shown resilience and endurance through one of the deepest crises on record and has still been able to come out with an optimistic picture.
This program may give the U.S. economy a short-term boost, yet the gridlock of Congressional politics and the inevitable wheel and deal of the system needs it ill-fated as a long-term vision “once in a generation” is quite an apt way to describe it.
From rolling out green vehicles with zero emissions to efforts for breakthroughs in green and low-carbon technologies and accelerating the promotion of applications to banish emissions are some of the measures being fast-tracked for implementation.
The legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement continues to live on in China’s worldview, and this must be understood before ideas of a new cold war or systematic challenges to Beijing are hyped up.
It is a means to an end, a tool, a useful propaganda apparatus for discrediting and demonizing countries that stand in its way of global dominance, all while failing to meet even the most basic obligations at home.
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