Xi Proposes Global Civilisation Initiative

<正>Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President,attended the opening ceremony of the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting via video link and delivered a keynote address in Beijing,capital of China,March 15,2023.In his keynote address,Xi proposed the Global Civilisation Initiative.     

Initiative on Global Civilisation Praised

<正>President’s proposal critical for pursuit of peace,development,experts say The Global Civilisation Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping is regarded as not only highly relevant in this world fraught with challenges and uncertainties,but also critical for the pursuit of common peace and development,according to Asia-Pacific experts.     

Global Cities as Market Civilisation

Building upon interdisciplinary efforts to understand the origins, logic and significance of global cities, this article argues that global cities should be seen as a critical component and outcome of a political project to generate a global market society. Global cities should be seen as the successful implementation of free-market political philosophy, constructed and defended by a particular historical configuration of international society. The historical transformation of urban form signalled by the "global city" concept is tightly bound to the neoliberal restructuring of the world economy in the 1970s, underpinned by US hegemonic power. The first part of this article argues that the distinctive historical origin of global cities has shaped their current trajectories and draws the horizon of their future prospects. Having established the connection between liberal world order and global cities, the second part of the article argues that the contemporary form of the global city is under threat from two sources. The first threat is internal to the global city form itself. Global cities have internalised the contradictory forces of market liberalism. They have registered astonishing economic growth over the last four decades, and generated vast material and intellectual resources. But, at the same time, they have become deeply divided and polarised in ways that threaten the urban fabric. The second source of threat comes from the possible weakening or collapse of liberal world order, with the accelerating decline of US hegemony. Drawing on aspects of Karl Polanyi's analysis of the nineteenth-century "great transformation", the article argues that a number of future trajectories for the global city can be identified in the contemporary moment.     

“Democracy as Civilisation”

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy has come to embody the very idea of legitimate statehood in international politics. It has done so largely through defining a new standard of civilisation, in which “democraticness” determines the limits of international society and helps to construct relations with non-democracies “beyond the pale”. Like the “classical” standard, this new version again reflects a considerable interest in the socio-political organisation of states. Central in this shift back to a more “anti-pluralist” international society has been the democratic peace thesis, which emphasises how the internal (democratic) characteristics of states influence their external behaviour. Against more optimistic interpretations, it is argued that the democratic peace is a distinctly Janus-faced creature: promoting peace between democracies, while potentially encouraging war against non-democratic others. Within the democratic peace, non-democracies become not just behaviourally threatening but also ontologically threatening. Non-democracies are a danger because of what they are (or are not). In sum, the argument presented is that democracy, positioned as the most legitimate form of domestic governance in international society, has become caught up and used in global structures of domination, hierarchy and violence. Thus, the role of “democracy” in international politics is much more complicated, and, at least in its current guise, less progressive than often portrayed.     

Global Civilisation Initiative Boosts Human Advancement

<正>The Global Civilisation Initiative,proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping,will inject fresh and strong energy into the common development and progress of human society in a world fraught with multiple challenges and crises.Elaborating on the new initiative at the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties HighLevel Meeting,Xi,also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee,called for respecting the diversity of civilisations,advocating the common value...     

Views on Global Civilisation Initiative by Sinologists

Sinologists all over the world have spoken highly of the Global Civilisation Initiative since it was proposed by President Xi Jinping.They expressed their readiness to contribute wisdom and strength to the implementation of the Initiative.This article is composed of interview excerpts of 16 sinologists from 14countries.     

Global Civilisation Initiative Outlines the Way to Transcend Estrangement,Clashes and Superiority

<正>The modernisation of humanity should be like a garden where a hundred flowers bloom.This is what President Xi Jinping said in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Communist Party of China in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting via video link.     

Global Civilisation Initiative Proposed by Xi Provides Hope to Heal the World in Turbulence

<正>Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President,proposed the Global Civilisation Initiative.Experts said following the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative,China is trying to share its wisdom and plans to bring new hope for all nations to consider together on how to escape the trap of the"Clash of Civilisations"and find a path that can help the world sail through the current turbulence.