(A closer look at China) SCO’s first "cloud" summit, Xi Jinping empowered regional cooperation with four "communities"

  China News Service, Beijing, November 11 (Huang Yuqin) Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the 20th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Beijing on the evening of the 10th and delivered an important speech.

At the first “cloud” summit since the establishment of the SCO, Xi Jinping put forward the major initiative of building a “health community”, “safety community”, “development community” and “humanities community” within the framework of the SCO, calling on the SCO to do Promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind and make more practical explorations.

  International issues experts interviewed by reporters from China News Agency believe that in the face of major changes unseen in a century and superimposed on the new crown pneumonia pandemic, Xi Jinping’s speech at the SCO summit clarified the mission and responsibilities of the SCO in a special period, and The Chinese initiative to build four "communities" points out the priority direction for deepening the organization's cooperation and empowering the SCO for the next stage of development.

  At present, the epidemic is accelerating the adjustment of the international pattern, and the international community is undergoing the test of multilateral and unilateral, open and closed, cooperation and confrontation.

In his speech, Xi Jinping clearly gave China’s judgment on the general trend of the future, pointing out that the trend of the times of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win is unstoppable. Good-neighborly friendship will inevitably go beyond beggar-thy-neighbors, mutually beneficial cooperation will surely replace zero-sum games, and multilateralism will definitely Overcome unilateralism.

  Expert analysis believes that the SCO is an important part of the international multilateral institutions, and how its member states view the future development trend of the world directly determines the future path of the SCO, and profoundly affects the way of getting along with each other.

  Xing Guangcheng, member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and director of the China Frontier Research Institute, said that in the post-epidemic period, how the SCO can further play its role as a regional organization depends on member states' judgment on the future international environment.

"Values ​​determine actual actions. China looks at global issues from a regional perspective and reaffirms its own judgment on the SCO platform to help build regional consensus."

  “President Xi Jinping’s judgments on good-neighborly friendship, mutually beneficial cooperation, and multilateralism are in line with the SCO philosophy.” Guo Yanjun, director of the Institute of Asian Studies of the China Foreign Affairs University, further pointed out that under the impact of major changes and the epidemic, the concepts of friendship, cooperation, and multilateralism Repeatedly challenged, China’s judgment of world trends is to adhere to the "Shanghai Spirit" and clarify the mission and responsibility of the SCO in the current international environment.

  If peace, development, cooperation, and win-win are the trends of the future, the international community at the crossroads is facing the question of the times of "what is going on in the world, what shall we do". In this context, it is about to usher in its 20th anniversary. The SCO should think about how to further explore the cooperation and development path of the new type of regional organization.

In this regard, Xi Jinping put forward a major initiative to build four "communities" at the summit: strengthening anti-epidemic cooperation and building a health and health community; maintaining security and stability and building a security community; deepening practical cooperation and building a development community; promoting people-to-people bonds and building a community Humanistic community.

Expert comments pointed out that relevant initiatives are not only the key to solving the problems of the times, but also the only way for the SCO to achieve stability and long-term success.

  Sun Zhuangzhi, director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, analyzed that the four “communities” have clarified the current SCO’s most urgent and priority cooperation directions, and provided specific paths for establishing a community of shared future for inter-regional countries. It provides an important reference paradigm for global governance.

  Xing Guangcheng believes that the four “communities” link up with the community of shared future for mankind, not only upholding the “Shanghai Spirit”, but also an extension of the existing important areas of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is conducive to creating a regional “model of governance” for the global Governance contributes regional wisdom.

  Experts also noticed that after the SCO experienced the two-wheel drive of "economic" and "safety" and the three pillars of "economy", "safety" and "humanities", "health" was mentioned for the first time in the summit and became Xi Jinping. In his speech, he proposed the first community to be built.

  Guo Yanjun believes that the outbreak of the epidemic will have a profound impact on the international order and international norms.

It is in the midst of the epidemic that more and more countries realize that there is no human health, and all other exchanges and cooperation are without roots.

"The summit adopted a statement on jointly responding to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, calling on the international community to strengthen cooperation to overcome the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, which is the most direct response to the construction of a health community."

  “One of the outstanding features of the SCO is that it responds to new regional issues and challenges in a timely manner. The inclusion of the construction of a health community reflects the SCO’s response to the concerns of the best interests of all countries.” Xing Guangcheng said that the epidemic is not only in the public The common security crisis faced by the health sector also provides space for cooperation among member states in joint prevention and control of the epidemic and vaccine development.

  In addition to the field of public health, expert analysis pointed out that as the world enters a period of turbulent change, opportunities and challenges for the SCO to build four "communities" coexist.

  "The global governance deficit highlights the importance and urgency of the SCO member states to build a community." Guo Yanjun said that the superposition of major changes and the epidemic requires the SCO to step up and increase its participation in global governance and add more to the world. Positive energy and certainty.

  Sun Zhuangzhi pointed out that on the one hand, all countries should uphold the principle of "easy before difficult", and take the lead in building a community where consensus has been reached and there is a basis for cooperation.

On the other hand, the principle of openness should be adhered to. In the process of building the above-mentioned community, the SCO needs to have a benign interaction with other multilateral organizations and mechanisms to link up development strategies.

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