Xi Jinping to UN General Assembly: "Democracy is not special right reserved for an individual country"

[BHAN85]

Xi addresses United Nations General Assembly, calls for bolstering confidence, jointly addressing global challenges
Updated 05:36, 22-Sep-2021

Mr. President,
The year 2021 is a truly remarkable one for the Chinese people. This year marks the centenary of the Communist Party of China. It is also the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the lawful seat of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations, a historic event which will be solemnly commemorated by China.
We will continue our active efforts to take China’s cooperation with the United Nations to a new level and make new and greater contributions to advancing the noble cause of the UN.
Mr. President, A year ago, global leaders attended the high-level meetings marking the 75th anniversary of the UN and issued a declaration pledging to fight COVID-19 in solidarity, tackle challenges together, uphold multilateralism, strengthen the role of the UN, and work for the common future of present and coming generations.
One year on, our world is facing the combined impacts of changes unseen in a century and the COVID-19 pandemic. In all countries, people long for peace and development more than ever before, their call for equity and justice is growing stronger, and they are more determined in pursuing win-win cooperation.
Right now, COVID-19 is still raging in the world, and profound changes are taking place in human society. The world has entered a period of new turbulence and transformation. It falls on each and every responsible statesman to answer the questions of our times and make a historical choice with confidence, courage and a sense of mission.
First, we must beat COVID-19 and win this decisive fight crucial to the future of humanity. The history of world civilization is also one of fighting pandemics. Rising to challenges, humanity has always emerged in triumph and achieved greater development and advancement. The current pandemic may appear overwhelming, but we humanity will surely overcome it and prevail.
We should always put people and their lives first, and care about the life, value and dignity of every individual. We need to respect science, take a science-based approach, and follow the laws of science. We need to both follow routine, targeted COVID-19 protocols and take emergency response measures, and both carry out epidemic control and promote economic and social development.
We need to enhance coordinated global COVID-19 response and minimize the risk of cross-border virus transmission.
Vaccination is our powerful weapon against COVID-19. I have stressed on many occasions the need to make vaccines a global public good and ensure vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries. Of pressing priority is to ensure the fair and equitable distribution of vaccines globally. China will strive to provide a total of two billion doses of vaccines to the world by the end of this year.
In addition to donating 100 million US dollars to COVAX, China will donate 100 million doses of vaccines to other developing countries in the course of this year. China will continue to support and engage in global science-based origins tracing, and stands firmly opposed to political maneuvering in whatever form.
Second, we must revitalize the economy and pursue more robust, greener and more balanced global development. Development holds the key to people’s well-being. Facing the severe shocks of COVID-19, we need to work together to steer global development toward a new stage of balanced, coordinated and inclusive growth. To this end, I would like to propose a Global Development Initiative:
— Staying committed to development as a priority. We need to put development high on the global macro policy agenda, strengthen policy coordination among major economies, and ensure policy continuity, consistency and sustainability. We need to foster global development partnerships that are more equal and balanced, forge greater synergy among multilateral development cooperation processes, and speed up the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
— Staying committed to a people-centered approach. We should safeguard and improve people’s livelihoods and protect and promote human rights through development, and make sure that development is for the people and by the people, and that its fruits are shared among the people. We should continue our work so that the people will have a greater sense of happiness, benefit and security, and achieve well-rounded development.
— Staying committed to benefits for all. We should care about the special needs of developing countries. We may employ such means as debt suspension and development aid to help developing countries, particularly vulnerable ones facing exceptional difficulties, with emphasis on addressing unbalanced and inadequate development among and within countries.
— Staying committed to innovation-driven development. We need to seize the historic opportunities created by the latest round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, redouble efforts to harness technological achievements to boost productivity, and foster an open, fair, equitable and non-discriminatory environment for the development of science and technology. We should foster new growth drivers in the post-COVID era and jointly achieve leapfrog development.
— Staying committed to harmony between man and nature. We need to improve global environmental governance, actively respond to climate change and create a community of life for man and nature. We need to accelerate transition to a green and low-carbon economy and achieve green recovery and development.
China will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. This requires tremendous hard work, and we will make every effort to meet these goals. China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy, and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.
—Staying committed to results-oriented actions. We need to increase input in development, advance on a priority basis cooperation on poverty alleviation, food security, COVID-19 response and vaccines, development financing, climate change and green development, industrialization, digital economy and connectivity, among other areas, and accelerate implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, so as to build a global community of development with a shared future.
China has pledged an additional three billion US dollars of international assistance in the next three years to support developing countries in responding to COVID-19 and promoting economic and social recovery.
Third, we must strengthen solidarity and promote mutual respect and win-win cooperation in conducting international relations. A world of peace and development should embrace civilizations of various forms, and must accommodate diverse paths to modernization. Democracy is not a special right reserved to an individual country, but a right for the people of all countries to enjoy.
Recent developments in the global situation show once again that military intervention from the outside and so-called democratic transformation entail nothing but harm. We need to advocate peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom, which are the common values of humanity, and reject the practice of forming small circles or zero-sum games.
Differences and problems among countries, hardly avoidable, need to be handled through dialogue and cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual respect. One country’s success does not have to mean another country’s failure, and the world is big enough to accommodate common development and progress of all countries. We need to pursue dialogue and inclusiveness over confrontation and exclusion.
We need to build a new type of international relations based on mutual respect, equity, justice and win-win cooperation, and do the best we can to expand the convergence of our interests and achieve the biggest synergy possible.
The Chinese people have always celebrated and striven to pursue the vision of peace, amity and harmony. China has never and will never invade or bully others, or seek hegemony. China is always a builder of world peace, contributor to global development, defender of the international order and provider of public goods. China will continue to bring the world new opportunities through its new development.
Fourth, we must improve global governance and practice true multilateralism. In the world, there is only one international system, i.e. the international system with the United Nations at its core. There is only one international order, i.e. the international order underpinned by international law. And there is only one set of rules, i.e. the basic norms governing international relations underpinned by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.
The UN should hold high the banner of true multilateralism and serve as the central platform for countries to jointly safeguard universal security, share development achievements and chart the course for the future of the world. The UN should stay committed to ensuring a stable international order, increasing the representation and say of developing countries in international affairs, and taking the lead in advancing democracy and rule of law in international relations.
The UN should advance, in a balanced manner, work in all the three areas of security, development and human rights. It should set common agenda, highlight pressing issues and focus on real actions, and see to it that commitments made by all parties to multilateralism are truly delivered.
Mr. President,
The world is once again at a historical crossroads. I am convinced that the trend of peace, development and advancement for humanity is irresistible. Let us bolster confidence and jointly address global threats and challenges, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind and a better world for all.

Xi addresses United Nations General Assembly, calls for bolstering confidence, jointly addressing global challenges

China's President Xi Jinping addressed the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday from Beijing.

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[REhorror]

There is no bigger meme than democracy.
But I do believe China is more democratic because factionalism in China is stronger than the US, US is literally two puppet parties.

 

[Iñigo]

Exactly

In the United States there may have been a democracy in the past; but that has disappeared and for the last twenty years or so it has been a show for the masses, the political power of the Duopoly voter is exactly zero

You can have an empire or a democracy; but not both

Chalmers Johnson - Wikipedia

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Professor Chalmers Johnson thought that the American political system would evolve into a kind of military dictatorship of classical form; but no, the result has been a fusion of classical and genuinely American elements: on the one hand an "imperial presidency", an "imperatus", And on the other hand, a show worthy of Hollywood's best comedy writers and the professional wrestling association.

WWE - Wikipedia

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And while they entertain their audience they discuss among themselves how best to serve the gods of the empire

Capitoline Triad - Wikipedia

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Jupiter, Juno, Minerva

(1) imperial Domination, imperial hubris, cult of Rome, and China, Russia and Persia Obssesion

(2) "Our colonial project" (Jabotinsky)*

(3) Domestic Statu Quo: Corporatocracy

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[MH.Yang]

Democracy means that people control their rights through govt. Instead of Wall Street controlling power through the govt.

The country is the tool of the ruling group to rule the ruled group. Democracy means that the ruling group is the people, not Wall Street.

 

[Enigma SIG]

Need to do away with "electing" altogether. I propose a system where lawmaking is the collective responsibility of the populace.

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

When Trump tried to become dictator (like a communist or fascist party boss), American opposition put up strong resistance to him, meanwhile American media and other institutions were constantly checking him. Trump tested American democracy to its limit and it stayed intact.

 

[chinasun]

Sovereign equality is the most important norm governing state-to-state relations over the past centuries and the cardinal principle observed by the United Nations and all other international organizations.

The essence of sovereign equality is that the sovereignty and dignity of all countries, whether big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor, must be respected, their internal affairs allow no interference and they have the right to independently choose their social system and development path.

 

[SIPRA]

Whatever may be a political system, ultimately, it is a select group, which rules a state, according to its whims.

 

[jamahir]

Democracy means that people control their rights through govt. Instead of Wall Street controlling power through the govt.

Democracy means the people debating and controlling their rights without Western-style political parties, five-yearly elections and all that drama and democracy also means the people ruling themselves without a Chinese-style single-party system that is also a traitor to the cause of global Communism.

Libya until 2011 was a true democracy. People ruling themselves without any party system and elections. Libya embodied the "Withering away of the State" desire of Communism as well as having a Socialist socio-economic system. I quote from this 2015 thread :

Under Gaddafi’s unique system of direct democracy, traditional institutions of government were disbanded and abolished, and power belonged to the people directly through various committees and congresses.

Far from control being in the hands of one man, Libya was highly decentralized and divided into several small communities that were essentially “mini-autonomous States” within a State. These autonomous States had control over their districts and could make a range of decisions including how to allocate oil revenue and budgetary funds. Within these mini autonomous States, the three main bodies of Libya’s democracy were Local Committees, Basic People’s Congresses and Executive Revolutionary Councils.

The Basic People’s Congress (BPC), or Mu’tamar shaʿbi asāsi was essentially Libya’s functional equivalent of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom or the House of Representatives in the United States. However, Libya’s People’s Congress was not comprised merely of elected representatives who discussed and proposed legislation on behalf of the people; rather, the Congress allowed all Libyans to directly participate in this process. Eight hundred People’s Congresses were set up across the country and all Libyans were free to attend and shape national policy and make decisions over all major issues including budgets, education, industry, and the economy.

In 2009, Gaddafi invited the New York Times to Libya to spend two weeks observing the nation’s direct democracy. The New York Times, that has traditionally been highly critical of Colonel Gaddafi’s democratic experiment, conceded that in Libya, the intention was that

“everyone is involved in every decision…Tens of thousands of people take part in local committee meetings to discuss issues and vote on everything from foreign treaties to building schools.”

The fundamental difference between western democratic systems and the Libyan Jamahiriya’s direct democracy is that in Libya all citizens were allowed to voice their views directly – not in one parliament of only a few hundred wealthy politicians – but in hundreds of committees attended by tens of thousands of ordinary citizens. Far from being a military dictatorship, Libya under Mr. Gaddafi was Africa’s most prosperous democracy.

On numerous occasions Mr. Gaddafi’s proposals were rejected by popular vote during Congresses and the opposite was approved and enacted as legislation.

For instance, on many occasions Mr. Gaddafi proposed the abolition of capital punishment and he pushed for home schooling over traditional schools. However, the People’s Congresses wanted to maintain the death penalty and classic schools, and the will of the People’s Congresses prevailed.

Unlike in the West, Libyans did not vote once every four years for a President and an invariably wealthy local parliamentarian who would then make all decisions for them. Ordinary Libyans made decisions regarding foreign, domestic and economic policy themselves.

 

[Iñigo]

"When Trump ..."

No

This is a liberal fantasy

In the USA there are two cultures, two identities, two nations, and that is why the ruling class needs two masks and two teams of salesmen and waiters

 

[jamahir]

Need to do away with "electing" altogether. I propose a system where lawmaking is the collective responsibility of the populace.

That was how it was in Libya. Please see post# 9.

 

[chinasun]

What is the core of China’s foreign policy, and what do you think about it?

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The core of China's foreign policy, which has not changed since 1949, is to serve around the need for China to be strong. I have seen answers to the claim that China's foreign policy is divided into several stages, and I am sorry to say that I have asked Chinese scholars of international issues and they have all said that they have never heard of such a claim.
The core of China's diplomacy has remained the same for 70 years, with a few adjustments in some executive level policies.
1. Stabilising China's neighbourhood and creating a good opportunity for China's development
2、Strengthening communication and making the world understand China's development
3. Through foreign aid, to win the support of other small and medium-sized countries in the world for China in terms of policy.
Some people say that China is now very tough with the West and that this is a so-called "strategic counter-attack", so I am curious to ask, is the Korean War in the 1950s considered tough?
China's relationship with the US has not yet reached a state of military war, has it?
For 70 years, China has put forward a diplomatic principle, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence were first formally put forward to the international community in 1953 by Zhou Enlai, then Premier of the Central People's Government's Council of Government, when he met with a delegation from the Indian government, with which China had a territorial dispute. The specific contents are
mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity
non-aggression towards each other
non-interference in each other's internal affairs
equality and mutual benefit
peaceful coexistence
The Five Principles were later amended by replacing "equality and reciprocity" with "equality and mutual benefit" and "mutual respect for territorial sovereignty" with "mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity", i.e. "mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence".
In April 1955, Indonesia held the Bandung Conference in Bandung, which was attended by 29 countries and regions, and issued the Declaration on the Promotion of World Peace and Cooperation, which included all of these five principles.
In 1957, Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of China, declared in Moscow that "China firmly advocates the implementation of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence by all countries".
In 1974, Chinese Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping again stressed at the UNGASS that political and economic relations between countries "should be based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence".
In 1988, Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC), put forward the idea of establishing a new international political and economic order based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence have also been affirmed in many international multilateral treaties and documents, including the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, adopted by the 25th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1970, and the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, adopted by the 6th Special Session of the General Assembly in 1974, which explicitly included the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
China claims that in its relations with all countries, including socialist countries, it has "consistently adhered to the five principles of peaceful coexistence and, on the basis of these principles, has established and developed friendly and cooperative relations with many countries" and that "over the decades, the five principles of peaceful coexistence have withstood the test of international Over the decades, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence have withstood the test of international changes and have shown great vitality and played a great role in promoting world peace and international friendship and cooperation. China is not only an advocate of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, but also a faithful adherent to them. On the basis of these five principles, China has resolved historical border issues with the vast majority of its neighbours and has established diplomatic relations with most countries in the world".
Although a few countries, such as India and Vietnam, have different views on China's "peace policy".
But I think we all acknowledge the fact that China does not send troops around the world and bomb other countries as often as the US and Europe do, right?
As for the recent talks in Alaska, the world was surprised by the toughness shown by Chinese diplomats.
In fact, if you look back at Chinese history, you will see that Chinese diplomats have been like this for 70 years. It's just that it's not reported in the media.
And this time in Alaska, because of a miscalculation by the United States, the tough side of Chinese diplomats was shown to the world. The previous toughness was just not captured by the media and then scandalously reported by the Western media after the meeting.
The West says that China used to bide its time and now it is a war wolf diplomacy, so what is the situation from the Korean War, to the Sino-Indian conflict, the Sino-Soviet conflict on Jumbo Island and the Sino-Vietnamese war. Were these all bushwhacking?
On the contrary, China has not had any foreign war conflicts in the last 40 years. Has it actually turned into war-wolf diplomacy?
This is a joke.
We engage in war, you say we are biding our time.
We avoid war, and you say we are war-wolf diplomacy?
Is this just like Europe and America?
The US and Europe bomb around the world and are said to be keeping the peace.
China doesn't run around the world killing people and is said to be a threat to peace.
So those who think that China's foreign policy principles have been adjusted are those who lack understanding of Chinese diplomacy.
Have you not noticed the sequence of events?
Because the West, and the US in particular, kept putting pressure on China before China made a counter-attack, and so it appeared to be more assertive?
If the US had not constantly sent aircraft carriers into Chinese territorial waters, China would not have been so eager to develop its navy. Of course the western media narrative is that China keeps developing its military power so the US has to come and maintain the balance. And China is trying to break that balance again.
Of course Chinese diplomacy has made some adjustments, on a technical level. For example, the previous diplomatic centre of political focus and economic support has become a diplomatic model of economic construction and political support.
China has abandoned its previous practice of foreign aid that was divorced from its own economic strength. But as China's economy develops, the total amount of Chinese foreign economic aid is still increasing.
To sum up, in layman's terms, the core principles of China's diplomacy are.
I try to do our own thing
Let other people's affairs be settled by their own families.
Peaceful engagement is a prerequisite.
So you should understand why China has adopted its present attitude towards the situation in Burma. China's diplomatic principles are clear.
How the Burmese military and the NLD make trouble is your own business, the Burmese.
We are opposed to the use of force by both of you, but even if there is a civil war that is a matter for your own family. (In fact, in recent decades, there has been no end to civil war between the Tatmadaw and the NLD within Burma)
China is opposed to any intervention from outside forces, especially military intervention.






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[Iñigo]

The ideology of "Our Colonial Project" is one of the great sources of inspiration for the West. It was the ideology of an Aramean ruling class at the time of the Persian empire

In a normal country, the population of the territory controlled by a state is the citizenry

But the old Aramaic pamphlets (i.e., the Old Testament) draw a brutal distinction between "a people (of lords)" and "the people of the land"

There is, therefore, a complete opposition between the Confucian Civilization and the Christian-Roman empires based on the Old Testament.

 

[redtom]

If Americans have more political freedom, I agree. If it's Americans who have more democracy, I think even Chinese dogs have more democracy than Americans.

If anyone disagrees, just list the decades in which the American political system has moved closer to the people. The Chinese government gives more rights to dogs than the US government gives to Americans.

Of course, political speech is less free in China than in the US. Even considering the US government's removal of pro-China comments, arrests and assassinations of pro-communist academics and journalists. But the US still allows Americans to spread blatantly false statements, such as anti-vaccine, anti-mask, racism. The Chinese government is still trying to steer public opinion in a certain direction, deleting and blocking much of it. At least there was no assassination.

 

[MH.Yang]

Democracy means the people debating and controlling their rights without Western-style political parties, five-yearly elections and all that drama and democracy also means the people ruling themselves without a Chinese-style single-party system that is also a traitor to the cause of global Communism.

Libya until 2011 was a true democracy. People ruling themselves without any party system and elections. Libya embodied the "Withering away of the State" desire of Communism as well as having a Socialist socio-economic system. I quote from this 2015 thread :

You're interesting.
You are Indian and I am Chinese. You introduced the seats and fares of the high-speed railway to me yesterday. Today you introduced communism to me.
I guess you'll teach me how to make dumplings tomorrow.