From Moscow: The Chinese Proclamation of the New World Order

 


The Chinese president's message to his Russian counterpart has been made abundantly clear and self-evident to the extent that it needs no explanatory comments. Simply put, it is a proclamation of China's new international role and objective, which marks a new era in terms of the international order and politics. 

- I have no doubt about the disfunctioning of the current US-led western international order due to its intrinsic flaws, unleashed capitalism's problems, and the world's changing balance of power.

- Thus, a change in the post-cold war international order and politics is very prospective in the direction of more role and influence for the rising China and its forming international camp, as the victorious western powers couldn't maintain their political and economic paramount strengths, which limit their rivals respective strengths. 

- In my opinion, the main problem of the current western-led international order is that it is actually based on and structured with an advanced and sophisticated kind of 'covered imperialism', which maintains, takes advantage and benefits from economic disadvantage and inequality of formerly occupied countries (colonies).

- Intertwined with the unleashed version of capitalism, the leading powers' foreign policies are strictly complying with their national interests at the expense of the values underpinning their liberal democratic ideology that plays at the theoretical sphere rather than the practical field.

- These policies in Libya and Syria, for example, serve as a solid example of this reality, which resulted in the destruction of the very promising international norm of 'Responsibility to Protect' due particularly to their Syria policies. The tremendous prolonged suffering of the Syrian people that lasted for over a 12 years is a living testimony to this fact. 

- This cynicism entails supremacy in terms of power, assets and means that creates dependency on the leading powers for stability and economic security, which mainly requires to install and support agent regimes in countries of concern and interest.

- The current world developments indicate that this system is not sustainable for multiple national and international reasons and political and economic factors, then, change is coming according to these facts and realities. 

- Chinese-Russian understanding and partnership will lead and pave the way for an aimed change in the current western-led international order. The rising role of China assisted by its relation with Russia will affect the geopolitical realities of the world alongside creating a change in the values system.

- Consequently, a key question would arise about the direction and shape of the prospective change. Getting two authoritarian or semi-authoritarian powers into the equation, which didn't internationally result in or bring about a genuine democratic effect in the first place puts it beyond our scholarship's ability to predict, so we need to observe the realities and analyze respectively.

- Meanwhile, we can explore the outline of changing balance of power and its implications. As the outcomes of the prospective change are unpredictable, I can expect, or even wish, that this change may affect the cynical nature of the western powers' foreign policies towards a genuine adherence to democratic and human rights values and norms as a deemed national interest to counter and balance the nascent international power of the new authoritarian player or players.

- Moreover, pro-democracy and human rights activists should take advantage of this international change to get a real and effectual support for their causes and activities, and thereby get availed of the changing world order and politics after frequent and significant setbacks they have been suffering, and this is the bottom line for me. 


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