China has made important revisions to its constitution which include adding support for a shared community of mankind into the document. It is unusual for a single country to include a global governance vision into its own guide for internal governance.
The revisions to the Constitution, which support China’s role in the world, are surely the focus of international attention. China has unique contributions to make based on its history, culture, and economic development. The world must learn how to live with China and benefit from what it has to offer. However, China must also develop a worldview that truly implements the win-win spirit not only on China’s terms but also on terms negotiated with other cultures and countries.
Changes to the Constitution of China are ultimately an internal, political matter for the government and people of China. The changes to the Constitution are part of the Communist Party of China’s long-term plan. As such, they provide other countries with an assurance that the government is proceeding to implement its long-term plans in a manner that respects the rule of law. Ultimately, it will be for the people of China to decide if the government’s plans are appropriate and if they are in the best long-term interest of China.
In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, various kinds of “China threat theory” have appeared in different situations. Recently, there was a new version of the “China threat theory”. Some western media claimed that China used cultural communication to infiltrate the west and exert influence through “sharp power”.
Constitutional changes to write “push to build a community with shared future”, this is a strong response to all kinds of versions of “China threat”. Once again declare the strong determination to stick to the road of peaceful development of China. China is a major contributor to world peace. According to official statistics, China is the largest contributor of peacekeepers among the five permanent members of the UN security council, and the peacekeeping funds occupied the second largest in the world.
The idea of a community of shared future for mankind is to be written into the Chinese constitution, which remains highly consistent with the purposes and principles of the UN charter, which is widely recognized by the international. China senior levels has made clear on several occasions that the “the belt and road” initiative is to practice the concept of a community of shared future for mankind. Since 2013 when launching “the belt and road”, China’s leaders personally as “super salesman” to show the countries to seek common development with the world.
The “community of shared future for mankind” has become a relatively mature constitutional value and a new global governance scheme based on its sound value basis and practical basis. Based on the value basis, the “community of shared future” is rooted in the multi-value elements of the governance of the communist party of China (CPC). First, the rational nationalism based on national rejuvenation; Secondly, internationalism based on communist ideals; Third, based on the Chinese excellent traditional culture of the world; Fourth, based on the reform and opening up and globalization of cosmopolitanism.
“Mankind” is the Chinese traditional humanism thought and the world view of the times sublimation. President Xi, borrowed the ideas from China and western countries, put forward “human” as the unit of world outlook, which transcends the national and ethnic vision. Fully display the overall concept of Chinese traditional culture, system theory, and people-oriented thoughts and the feelings.
“Shared future” derived from the concept that after one hundred and eighty years that China finally finds its own development path, firmly grasp its fate in its own hands, and encourage other countries to hold the fate in their own hands, which accords with the situation of their own development path. Chinese national leading human destiny, set up the overall identity that transcends ideology, values and future identification, reflects the era of Chinese civilization and the world.
“Community” the pursuit of community of shared future for mankind, realize the era of globalization of the world, a dream, beyond the contradiction of regional integration and globalization, realize the integration of geography, politics, culture syncretic, achievements of human destiny.
These three key words are far beyond the western political civilization since modern times, is the innovation of human civilization, also in the new era of practice of Marxism, the communist ideal, fully display the charm of the Chinese civilization and look forward to the people of the world.