Attuned for a Robust Rebound
The projected strong comeback of Chinese economy will not only be a boon to China itself, but a shot in the arm for global recovery.
The projected strong comeback of Chinese economy will not only be a boon to China itself, but a shot in the arm for global recovery.
Returning to normality is fraught with real danger. However, the pandemic’s history demonstrates that the Chinese government values the right to life more highly than do Western leaders.
China has consistently been opening up to the outside world over the last four decades since it started the historic reform and opening-up drive. It is especially so in the last decade with the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative and through the CIIE.
China’s rise and economic power are part of the solution, not the problem.
‘Development’ became the key word at the G20 Bali summit in China’s proposal for steering the world out of the current predicament, to make global development more inclusive, beneficial to all, and more resilient.
There is still much work to be done and some re-thinking needed among the West’s political elites about how to create a stable and peaceful world. While the Xi-Biden meeting proved to break the ice, we still have a way to go before we experience a real thaw in the China-U.S. relationship.
A review of history tells us that every important inflation in the world’s major countries would wreak havoc on the global economy.
Whereas in the age of the Egyptian pharaohs, climate created civilization, modern civilization is now destroying the climate. Hence, the world’s future depends on politics.
If the key players fail to sit down together and talk things over for a peaceful world, it would be a ‘gross betrayal of the next generations to come and none of us would want that on our conscience.’
Having worked on endangered wildlife conservation and climate change issues in China since 2005, we have seen the progress of China as an international leader in wildlife conservation and climate action.
China is committed to building a world of lasting peace through dialogue and consultation, a world of common prosperity through mutually beneficial cooperation, and a clean and beautiful world through green and low carbon development.
China has become a truly geo-economic meridian of the globe, reverberating in practically all fields. And the 20th CPC National Congress showed an accordingly self-confident spirit ahead.