Beijing’s ambitions and actions provide a new paradigm for the world in its battle to contain the climate crisis.
The concept of “building a community with a shared future for mankind” is a reinterpretation of universalism in the Western style and may usher in a new era of world enlightenment, not to mention new enlightenment in the face of a West that is increasingly immersed in the shadows of xenophobia, populism, anti-science discourse, violence, internal division, protectionism, unilateralism, and fake news.
If competition with the U.S. becomes inevitable, then it should be managed properly to avoid any hard confrontation, a prerequisite for China’s overall development.
It will be interesting to see how much the micro-credential movement will disrupt and change the landscape of traditional tertiary education or be integrated with them and become part of a less linear, more flexible, cost effective and tailored form of lifelong learning better designed to meet the needs for constant re-skilling of the workforce for a Fourth Industrial Revolution and Information Age.
In many ways, China’s success is due to the quality of its decision-making process and efficiency of policy execution, which make the Chinese state far more responsive to the needs of the people than the Western model, as shown clearly in China’s resolute fight against COVID-19.
We cannot tackle common challenges in a divided world, and confrontation will lead us to a dead end.
As the world’s largest developing country, and at a critical stage in its own development, China is committed to completing the world’s most dramatic reduction in carbon emissions and realizing carbon neutrality in the shortest time ever recorded.
After all, the best way to shatter deep-seated bias towards China and remove misunderstanding is to come to China and see with one’s own eyes what’s happening here.
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.
This is, perhaps, the very transformational moment in which China could create an ecological civilization that positively changes not only China, but the entire world.
The success of raising hundreds of millions out of poverty and eradicating extreme poverty altogether has not been achieved by any other political system or country in human history, and demonstrates an unequalled contribution to human rights.
The country is determined to take on responsibilities beyond its capacity and work unswervingly to address the global climate crisis.
