On February 21st, "Global Security Initiative: China’s Solution to the Security Dilemma" was held in lanting forum. During the forum, China officially released the Concept Paper of Global Security Initiative. Foreign Minister Qin Gang elaborated on the times value and world significance of the Global Security Initiative, systematically summarized the key cooperation directions specified in the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative, and encouraged all countries to adhere to mutual respect, openness, inclusiveness, multilateralism, mutual benefit and overall consideration, and jointly promote the initiative to take root and blossom. (Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs website)
● Explain the core concepts and principles of the Global Security Initiative and put forward "six adherences", namely, adhering to the common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept, respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, abiding by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, attaching importance to the legitimate security concerns of all countries, resolving differences and disputes among countries by peaceful means through dialogue and consultation, and maintaining security in traditional and non-traditional fields as a whole.
● List 20 key cooperation directions with distinct action orientation, which can be summarized as follows: firmly support the core role of UN security governance, strive to promote coordination and benign interaction among major powers, actively promote dialogue and peaceful resolution of hot issues, effectively respond to traditional and non-traditional security challenges, and continuously strengthen the global security governance system and capacity building.
● Clarify the cooperation platform and mechanism, and demonstrate China’s responsibility for maintaining world peace and its firm determination to protect global security.
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On February 21st, "Global Security Initiative: China’s Solution to the Security Dilemma" was held in lanting forum. During the forum, China officially released the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative, which explained the core concepts and principles of the Global Security Initiative, defined the key cooperation directions, cooperation platforms and mechanisms, and aroused strong repercussions in the international community. International public opinion generally believes that the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative shows China’s responsibility for maintaining world peace and its firm determination to protect global security, and provides more systematic ideas and more feasible measures for solving global security problems.
The concept paper is an important step in implementing the initiative.
The international community generally believes that the formulation and publication of the Concept Document of the Global Security Initiative is an important measure for China to promote the implementation of the global security initiative and an important step that cannot be ignored.
Sputnik news agency & radio, RIA Novosti, Tass and other Russian media reported that the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative further explained the core concepts and principles of the Initiative, and proposed 20 key cooperation directions for the most prominent and urgent international security concerns at present, covering giving play to the role of the United Nations, promoting political solutions to hot issues, coping with traditional and non-traditional security challenges, improving global security governance and other aspects, and put forward ideas on the platform and mechanism of the Initiative cooperation.
Many media also noted that on the day of the document’s release, China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang elaborated on the time value and world significance of the Global Security Initiative, systematically summarized the key cooperation directions specified in the Concept Document of the Global Security Initiative, and encouraged all countries to adhere to mutual respect, openness, inclusiveness, multilateralism, mutual benefit and overall consideration, and jointly promote the initiative to take root and blossom. This reflects China’s sincere desire to help each other in the same boat with other countries in the world, and demonstrates China’s responsibility and responsibility as a big country for maintaining global stability and promoting common security.
While reporting the Concept Document of the Global Security Initiative, foreign media also paid attention to the video speech delivered by former Slovenian President Tü rk in lanting forum on the day of document release. Turk believes that the Global Security Initiative adheres to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and provides a strong conceptual framework for global security dialogue and cooperation. "Today’s world needs in-depth, respectful and realistic discussions on international peace and security, and the Global Security Initiative provides an important platform for this."
In an article entitled "China Releases Global Security Initiative Document: Political Solution to Ukrainian Crisis through Dialogue and Consultation", the Singapore Lianhe Zaobao website said that the Ukrainian government recently released the Concept Document of Global Security Initiative, proposing to attach importance to the legitimate security concerns of all countries, resolve differences and disputes among countries through dialogue and consultation, and advocate big countries to take the lead in stressing equality and the rule of law, safeguard the consensus that "a nuclear war cannot be won or fought", and support the political solution to Ukrainian crisis through dialogue and consultation.
On 21st, RIA Novosti quoted Yuri Tavrovski, Chairman of the Expert Council of Russia-China Friendship, Peace and Development Committee, as saying that he spoke highly of the Concept Paper of Global Security Initiative. Tavrovski believes that the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative will not be the only document, and he believes that other documents will be published in the foreseeable future with the related work in China.
More feasible measures to solve the security dilemma
China issued the Concept Paper of Global Security Initiative, which put forward more feasible measures to solve today’s security dilemma.
International public opinion generally believes that at present, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change. The global security initiative put forward by China’s leaders reflects the universal desire of the international community to safeguard world peace and promote common development, and has contributed China’s wisdom and provided China’s plan to eliminate the peace deficit and solve the security dilemma. To this end, all countries in the world should work together to implement global security initiatives and achieve peaceful coexistence.
The Tass news agency and other media pointed out that the newly released Concept Paper of Global Security Initiative has provided a more systematic idea and more feasible measures for solving global security problems. The Tass news agency commented in a report on the 21st that, according to the document, maintaining international peace and security and promoting global development and prosperity should be the common pursuit of all countries in the world. The global security initiative aims to eliminate the root causes of international conflicts, improve global security governance, and promote the international community to join hands to inject more stability and certainty into the turbulent and changing times and achieve lasting world peace and development.
On the day the document was released, Sputnik news agency & radio published an article entitled "20 Key Directions of Global Security Cooperation Proposed by China", praising the Concept Document of Global Security Initiative for its clear action orientation. In addition, Sputnik news agency & radio highlighted in his report that the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative supports political solutions to the Ukrainian crisis and other hot issues through dialogue and negotiation. The media reported that in the direction of key cooperation, the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative pointed out that it is necessary to "promote political solutions to international and regional hotspot issues".
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba said recently that Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee, briefed Ukraine on the main points of the Concept Paper on Global Security Initiative proposed by China. Kuleba said that Ukraine and China have maintained communication for a year. Uzbekistan attaches importance to China’s international status and important influence, attaches importance to China’s position on political settlement of the crisis, and expects China to continue to play a constructive role.
Convergence of broader international consensus and concerted action
Many media have mentioned in their reports that since the Global Security Initiative was put forward, it has received positive response from the international community. At present, more than 80 countries and regional organizations have expressed their appreciation and support. It is believed that with the release of the Concept Paper on Global Security Initiative, more and more countries and organizations will join in the implementation of the Global Security Initiative, bringing together international consensus and concerted action to support the Initiative more broadly.
At the same time, many countries in the world praised China as the initiator of global security initiative and an activist for maintaining world peace and tranquility. German radio station focused on the 21st that the Concept Paper of the Global Security Initiative emphasized that upholding respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries is the basic premise, and non-interference in internal affairs is the basic principle of international law and the most fundamental norm of modern international relations. At the same time, war and sanctions are not the fundamental way to resolve disputes.
In addition, many media are concerned that Qin Gang stressed on the 21st that safety is the right of all countries in the world, not the exclusive patent of some countries, and it should not be decided by individual countries. Global security initiatives serve the interests of the people all over the world and safeguard the peace of the people all over the world, which requires the unity, cooperation and joint promotion of the international community. They are expecting China to hold high-level activities of the Global Security Initiative to discuss security plans with all parties.
International public opinion also paid attention to Wang Yi’s keynote speech delivered at the 59th Munich Security Conference in China recently, and expressed full agreement with Wang Yi’s view that at an important juncture of historical evolution, human society must never go back to the old road of camp opposition, division and confrontation, and must never fall into the trap of zero-sum game and war conflict. Building a safer world is the strong desire of the people of all countries, the common responsibility of all countries in the world, and the correct direction of the times. For this reason, international public opinion believes that all countries in the world should work together to meet various traditional and non-traditional security challenges, shoulder to shoulder to protect the peace and tranquility of the earth’s homeland, jointly write a new chapter in implementing global security initiatives, and work together to create a better future for mankind.
