Opening Pandora’s Box
For the international community, the AUKUS submarine deal sets a very dangerous precedent. Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will seriously impact regional and global peace and security.
For the international community, the AUKUS submarine deal sets a very dangerous precedent. Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will seriously impact regional and global peace and security.
Beijing and Moscow know full well that Washington’s malign Cold War mentality drives the present war against Russia and drives the preparations for a future war against China.
The lingering animosity toward Asian Americans as a whole, and Chinese and Chinese Americans especially, remains evident in the U.S.
“The cause of today’s turbulent trends in the world is a clash of values,” former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said at the second “International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values” on March 23. “Diplomacy is about overcoming differences in values,” he said.
George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain and former member of parliament, shared his understanding of the democratic process at the second International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values on March 23. “The form of democracy in Western countries is devoid”, Galloway said.
Successful democracies are based on their own civilizations, cultures and national conditions.
The U.S. and China would never be allies. But that didn’t mean they had to be enemies. If managed well, they’d be strong competitors, but it would not move from adversarial to hostilities.
Without peace, no country can develop. The Communist Party of China has set a good example in this regard for other political parties in other countries.
Tokyo would be well advised to focus on plugging deficiencies in its intergovernmental engagement with Germany, as opposed to scapegoating China and fueling threat perceptions at the relationship’s own expense.
The global challenges we face today impose the need for a new paradigm of global governance beyond just optimizing nation-states’ self-interests.
At a time when geopolitical friction and deglobalization are making a lot of noise, China, guided by its open development concept, stands by a multilateral trade regime—i.e., the true definition of an opening-up policy.
It is China’s diplomatic goodwill that finally brought the two Gulf powerhouses together to ink the peace agreement that will lead to security and political stability to the Middle East and beyond.