China News Agency, Beijing, May 13 (Li Jingze and Zhang Weiran) The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Social Sciences Document Publishing House jointly issued the "Report on the International Situation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the report) on the 13th. Eight major trends in the situation. In view of the current development of the epidemic, scholars participating in the report conference believe that the new crown epidemic will become the biggest uncertain factor in the judgment of the global situation.
According to reports, the global situation and world pattern in 2020 will show eight major trends: the global economy has entered an era of ultra-low interest rates, slow progress in global governance, the rapid advancement of regional and bilateral cooperation, the intensification of east-west fragmentation in international strategies and security, The wrestling of cyberspace is more prominent, the competition for science and technology is more fierce, the risk of nuclear proliferation is rising, and the behavior of extremism is showing an international trend.
The scholars at the meeting agreed that the current trend of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic will become the biggest uncertainty factor in analyzing and judging the global situation, and this uncertainty will be manifested in political, economic and other aspects. At the press conference, scholars who studied issues in different countries and regions separately discussed the impact of the new crown epidemic.
On the European side, Wu Baiyi, director of the European Research Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that the situation of the European epidemic is not optimistic, which has worsened the European economy that has already experienced a downward trend. In the context of the epidemic affecting international relations, maintaining good and stable China-EU relations is in the interest of both parties. Economic cooperation, as an important link, will play a key role in influencing bilateral relations.
On the African side, Li Xinfeng, director of the Institute of West Asian and African Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that under the epidemic, China-Africa trade volume has dropped significantly, and it is recommended to take targeted measures to support China-Africa trade, such as tariff reduction during the epidemic to support the export of African products to China Wait.
In the United States, Yuan Zheng, director of the US Foreign Affairs Research Office of the American Research Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the new coronary pneumonia epidemic will add more uncertainty to the upcoming US elections, and that the United States ’international soft and hard power will also be tested. Participants noted that some western politicians and media have recently used the epidemic to stigmatize China. In this regard, Xie Fuzhan, president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stated that in order to shirk the responsibility of weak prevention and control and safeguard the political interests of individual or minority people, politicians in some countries will fight against the politicization of the epidemic and issue some morals that violate the universally recognized human society Standards and basic scientific knowledge. "However, creating lies, panic, discrimination and prejudice will only cast a new shadow on the stable development of international relations." He said. (Finish)