China News Agency, Beijing, April 23 (Reporter Wu Xu) The current world is neither peaceful nor peaceful. Economic globalization is encountering adverse currents. The century epidemic has superimposed the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The international pattern is facing profound changes.
How to overcome common challenges faced by the world, reduce division and confrontation, and strengthen communication and cooperation is a must-answer question for every country.
At the just-concluded Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022, the participants discussed this issue together with a view to finding a solution.
"All countries and all ethnic groups in the world should enjoy equal opportunities and rights for development. In today's increasingly close global connection, development must be open, not closed." Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Boao Forum for Asia, former State Council Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said that all countries should take a clear-cut stand against unilateralism and trade protectionism, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and work together to build an open world economy.
"With the in-depth development of world multi-polarization and economic globalization, the existing global governance system has been unable to keep up with the changes of the times. Promoting the reform of the global governance system and reducing the global governance deficit is the only way to build a better world." Zeng Peiyan pointed out that in the economic In the process of globalization, it is necessary to continuously improve the international rules and systems, the wealth distribution mechanism and adjust the industrial structure.
"War not only endangers human life and property, but also causes economic recession, environmental pollution and even destruction of civilization. All countries should fully learn from the lessons of history and maintain and cherish peace." Zeng Peiyan said that all countries in the world should abandon the Cold War mentality and reject the In a zero-sum game, ideology cannot be used to draw lines, let alone social systems.
Cui Tiankai, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China and former ambassador to the United States and Japan, pointed out that behind the rapid development of globalization in the past few decades, there is a driving force behind it. More and more countries are seeking development, and people are pursuing a better life.
These forces still exist today and will continue to do so in the long run.
So why are there differences now?
Cui Tiankai said that this is the result of the inevitable development of productive forces, but the adjustment of production relations has not kept up.
For example, he said that globalization has created huge new wealth, but the distribution among and even within countries is not fair and reasonable, and it has not achieved universal sharing. It has also caused problems such as development gap, digital gap, and vaccine gap in some countries. These are all manifestations of the failure to keep up with the adjustment of production relations.
Cui Tiankai also believes that global governance has not kept pace with the objective needs of economic development.
Emerging market economies are making more and more contributions to the world economy. For example, East Asian countries have become one of the main engines of world economic growth, but their voice in global governance has not been increased accordingly.
"Many countries have opinions on the international governance system and hope to increase the voice of developing countries through reforms."
At the same time, he stressed that some countries that already have a strong voice have abused their power.
The so-called unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction are actually taking advantage of their greater voice in their governance system.
"The issue of differentiation we want to discuss is faced with such contradictions. What should we do?" Cui Tiankai said that the way out lies in solving these mismatches and inappropriate situations, rather than attempting to violate the laws of economic and technological development.
For the immediate interests of some countries, artificially interrupting the industrial chain and supply chain, dividing the world, engaging in unilateralism and group confrontation will not work.
According to Zheng Yongnian, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and dean of the Qianhai Institute of International Affairs, globalization will be affected, but globalization will not disappear.
"The existence of hyper-globalization in the past 40 years has benefited from the economic interdependence of countries and the more effective operation of international organizations centered on the United Nations, which can restrict and regulate the behavior of major powers." Zheng Yongnian said.
"Who is de-globalization? It's political power." He pointed out that globalization since the 1980s was actually driven by technology and capital, but at this stage technology capital and political power run counter to each other, regardless of whether it is within the United States, Within Europe or within other countries, the struggle and contest between these two forces still exist.
"The current difficulties in globalization have affected the global industrial chain and supply chain, but everyone's dissatisfaction with the status quo is a huge driving force for the development of globalization." Zheng Yongnian said that globalization has created a huge amount of wealth, can it be effective? Controlling populism and whether it can continue to promote globalization are the keys to solving the current problem.
"Economy is the foundation, and politics is the superstructure. Now the fourth industrial revolution is in the ascendant, and the future order is determined by technology and innovation, so we must look at globalization from the Cold War mentality." Zheng Yongnian believes that the great global differentiation is Because of the decoupling, at present, countries should compete to see who is more open, and the final winner is the country with the most openness.
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