China News Agency, Beijing, June 19th: BRICS China Year, how does China's plan to promote BRICS cooperation change over time?
China News Agency reporter Huang Yuqin
From Xiamen to Beijing, after a lapse of 5 years, the BRICS Covenant once again engraved the Chinese imprint.
From June 22 to 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping will preside over the 14th BRICS Leaders' Meeting and the Global Development High-level Dialogue in Beijing, attend the opening ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum and deliver a keynote speech.
Looking at the 16-year development history of the BRICS, in the "three-wheel drive" of economy, trade, finance, political security, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges, the injection of China's plan has always promoted the BRICS cooperation and made the BRICS more shining.
Looking at the present moment with history, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and the BRICS has ushered in the Chinese Year. How China proposes to contribute to the BRICS cooperation has attracted much attention from the outside world.
Make the cake of cooperation bigger and bigger
Under the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the world economic recovery has been slow, the development gap between the North and the South has widened, and the momentum of global development cooperation has weakened.
Economic cooperation is the foundation of the BRICS mechanism. It is an important mission of the BRICS countries to propose ideas and plans for development and cooperation through the BRICS leaders' meeting.
Especially in the BRICS China Year, focusing on development issues has become a highlight, and a conference themed on development, the "High-level Dialogue on Global Development", is particularly attractive.
As Xi Jinping said, development is the master key to solving all problems.
Guided by the BRICS spirit of openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation, BRICS cooperation is committed to drawing concentric circles of common development.
The BRICS countries are not talking halls but action teams. From infrastructure construction such as Brazil's "Fuyu Road", India's "Green Power", South Africa's "Modern Port", to the fields of scientific and technological innovation such as aerospace, information technology, and new energy, the focus is on development and innovation. BRICS cooperation is more resilient.
"More importantly, BRICS cooperation has a direct spillover effect on global development." Chen Fengying, former director of the Institute of World Economics at the Institute of Contemporary International Relations, pointed out that the BRICS countries' contribution to global economic growth has exceeded 50% for many years. The results directly affect the progress of the post-pandemic recovery of the world economy.
In the eyes of the outside world, the achievements of the BRICS pragmatic cooperation have allowed emerging market countries around the world to see ways to break through the bottleneck of development and the possibility of economic recovery after the epidemic.
In the BRICS China Year, China's initiative may involve development, the master key to solving the problem, and help the global economic recovery with BRICS pragmatic cooperation.
Seeking Universal Safety Common Denominator
At present, the Cold War mentality, camp confrontation, and power politics are on the rise, seriously threatening world peace and security.
Political and security cooperation has always been an important part of the BRICS strategic partnership.
Five years ago, Xi Jinping and the leaders of the BRICS countries issued the "BRICS Leaders Xiamen Declaration" in Xiamen, in which "jointly addressing traditional and non-traditional security challenges" was written.
Not long ago, at the opening ceremony of the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting, Xi Jinping once again emphasized in his video speech that the BRICS countries should strengthen political mutual trust and security cooperation, and jointly build a security community for mankind.
When the century-old changes and the epidemic of the century resonate, traditional and non-traditional security challenges become more specific and urgent.
"In response to international and regional hotspots, the BRICS countries have mediated and contributed to the plan. The global security initiative proposed by China recently pointed out a way to make up for the peace deficit and solve the global security dilemma." Wang Lei, director of the BRICS Cooperation Center at Beijing Normal University, said. .
At present, hot issues such as the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the Iranian nuclear issue, and a new round of global terrorist activities continue to face challenges. In particular, the lingering crisis in Ukraine is one of the security issues of global concern.
The outside world has noticed that after the Ukrainian crisis, China actively promoted the BRICS coordinators’ meeting to clarify common propositions, speak out for peace, and do its best for peace: support multilateralism, abide by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, respect the reasonable security concerns of all countries, and support Russia and Ukraine. Continued dialogue and negotiations to seek a comprehensive solution to the Ukraine issue.
Wang Lei analyzed and pointed out that China has the opportunity to use the series of BRICS leaders' meetings to further elaborate new ideas for improving global security governance, and promote the BRICS countries and even developing countries to seek a common denominator of universal security.
Enhance the voice of developing countries in global governance
In recent years, global challenges have emerged one after another. Under the guise of multilateralism, a few countries have severely impacted the current international order with "small circles" and "small groups" and exacerbated the global governance deficit.
How to promote the development of the global governance system in a more just and reasonable direction is one of the important issues that China has drawn attention to on the BRICS occasion.
In this regard, Xi Jinping has clearly stated China's plan on many BRICS occasions, and has consistently expressed China's position.
He not only quoted the classics - a flower is not spring, a lone geese is difficult to travel, but also explained in simple and easy-to-understand language - to promote multilateralism, the core essence is that international affairs should be handled by everyone, not by one country or one country. A few countries have the final say.
Some analysts believe that China's promotion of the BRICS countries and other emerging markets and developing countries to actively participate in global governance and to strengthen communication and coordination on major international and regional issues is precisely to use the "big stage" of win-win cooperation to resist the "small" mentality of the Cold War. circle".
"The BRICS countries uphold an open and inclusive vision, which goes beyond the narrow perspective of group politics." Zhu Tianxiang, director of the Institute of Political Security at the BRICS Institute of Sichuan International Studies University, believes that China may be able to use this year's BRICS leaders' meeting and other occasions. Put forward specific initiatives around strengthening global governance to further enhance the voice of developing countries in global governance.
Those who are wise change with the times, those who are knowledgeable make things happen.
Five years ago, the BRICS countries stood at the historical node of the second "Golden Decade" and explored how to cope with the profound and complex changes in the world structure.
Five years later, how to respond to the changes in the world, the times and the history has become a new issue for the BRICS countries.
In the eyes of the outside world, among the many changes, the BRICS cooperation needs to be anchored in the "unchanged".
Why not change?
At the opening ceremony of the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting not long ago, Xi Jinping gave the answer -
"The theme of the times of peace and development has not changed, the pursuit of a better life by people of all countries has not changed, and the historical mission of the international community to help each other and achieve win-win cooperation has not changed." (End)