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Yang Jiemian
Chairman of the SIIS Council of Academic Affairs
He was the President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) (2007-2013) and the Councilor of the Shanghai People’s Municipal Government, and now is the Chairman of the SIIS Council of Academic Affairs. He has (co -) authored about two dozens of books and many papers well over one million words on international relations and China foreign policies.
Multilateralism is a built-in meaning of global governance in the time of globalization. However, multilateralism is confronting with the most severe test since the end of the Cold Was as a result of wide-spreading anti-globalization, populism, extremism in general and unilateralism and protectionism pushed by the Trump administration. As the ancient Chinese poem goes, “mountains cannot block the river running eastwards. “ Global governance and multilateralism as historic trends will continue to surge ahead despite the difficulties and obstacles.
Global governance has long been mankind’s dreams and exist in the major world civilization. 100 years ago the mankind started the process of international governance. 30 years ago the term and concept of global governance came into being along with a thriving time of multilateral diplomacy and multilateralism. However, unilateralism and protectionism pushed by the Trump administration are seriously assaulting the ideas, mechanisms, norms and public opinions of global governance. Consequentially, the contest between multilateralism and unilateralism is no longer a simple difference of diplomatic ways and methods, but a struggle of direction, target and morality of international relations.
Against the aforementioned background, China, Europe and many small and medium sized countries keep to multilateralism and attach greater importance to the inter-relations between global governance and multilateralism. The main China’s views are as follows:
China believes that multilateralism is part of the mainstream of our time and multilateral system symbolizes an important step towards greater democratization of modern international relations.
China holds that presently the most important tasks of multilateralism are to preserve the international system with the United Nations at its core as well as international trade norms and regulations centered on the WTO.
China adheres and promotes multilateralism in the basic ways of ensuring the continuation of the achieved multilateral process and gains, enhancing the rights of the developing countries in global and regional governance, and practicing the principles of mutual consultation, joint building and common sharing in advocating major initiatives, among other things.
Global governance is an enormous and huge systemic project with great comprehensiveness and complexities, thus requiring long-term persistence in multilateralism.
On the one hand, we must timely seize all the historic opportunities of global governance.
Historically speaking, based on North -South and South-South cooperation, global governance constitutes a higher stage of development. 30 years ago the developed countries put forward the concept of global governance. In the next 30 years the developing countries will add more momentum into global governance.
Practically speaking, “necessity is the mother of invention.” At present, the gap between the need for and capability of global governance is widening. To change this status has become increasingly urgent agenda of the international community.
Conceptually speaking, the international community does not only work on the practical global governance, but also think hard on the relevant concepts and theories.
On the other hand, we must fully understand and effectively meet the challenges. Moreover, the challenges have increasingly become more serious and wide-spreading.
As regards global governance in political and security realms, the international community and many actors are confronting with challenges in overall environments, capabilities, mechanisms, institutions, concepts and election platforms.
As regards global governance in economic and financial realms, the international community and many actors are confronting with challenges of insufficient momentums and weakening dynamism. Some major economies retreat into internal issues while having reduced their interests in reforming global economic and financial governance.
As regards global governance in non-traditional security realms, lack of international cognition consensus and action coordination has become an important challenge. The relevant institution building, strategic coordination and policy synchronization are giving way to traditional strategic competition and ideological attacks.
As regards global governance in cultural and educational realms, it is increasingly difficult to maintain world’s civilization pluralism and promote balanced and/ or paralleled development. The relevant sides need to enhance their historic responsibilities to strengthen global cultural and educational governance so as to lay a solid basis for the world’s peace and development.
Looking forward into the future, all the actors of the international community need to further promote multilateralism on the basis of their own practical exploration and theoretical innovation. Moreover, they should also need to learn from international positive and negative experiences and enrich the international mainstream ideologies, theories and actions in the course of international communicating, converging and contesting.
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