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Global Development and Cooperation with China

New Ideas, Policies and Initiatives for a Changing World

herausgegeben von: Henry Huiyao Wang, Mabel Lu Miao

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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This open access book draws on the insights and wisdom of representatives from a wide range of international organizations with a presence in China, leveraging their rich experience in their respective fields as well as their unique understanding of China’s development and its role in the world. In a world of increased tension between governments and a rise in regionalism, globally positioned non-governmental international organizations are key to keeping the lines of communication open. In addition to the United Nations and its affiliate organizations, a host of international organizations are ensuring that the world’s most pressing issues, in areas ranging from economics to education, are being discussed.

This new book focuses on the latest trends in four major areas—global governance, trade and economics, science and technology, and culture and exchange—providing the reader with information on the latest developments in these areas with a special focus on China and its relevant contributions. It is hoped that this book will inspire deeper discussion and consideration of the issues we face as a global community and how non-governmental entities can play a stabilizing role in global communication and in exploring solutions to common challenges.

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New Concepts in Global Governance

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A United Nations “Fit for Purpose” to Address the Current Geopolitical Environment and Challenges Facing the Community of Nations

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The convergence of multiple crises and conflicts has negated much of the progress the world has made in past decades and is threatening the ability of the global community to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), making multilateralism more important than ever. The United Nations was created with the purpose of bringing nations together to address global challenges and conflicts and we must ensure that the UN is “fit for purpose” so that it can effectively address those we face today. China is playing an increasingly important role in multilateral processes, having chaired COP15 on biodiversity and launched programmes like the Global Development Initiative, with enhanced international and South-South Cooperation in achieving the SDGs. The UN remains committed to the idea that multilateral solutions are needed to resolve our global challenges and will continue to support China and all other member states to address these challenges and to achieve the SDGs.

Siddharth Chatterjee

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Upholding Multilateralism, Establishing and Maintaining an Image as a Responsible Major Country

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Faced with formidable challenges including global sustainable development, climate change, major infectious diseases, ecological protection, and biodiversity, China’s global development initiatives have provided essential support for the UN SDGs. As China has benefited from the international development system, it has also taken an active role in the AIIB’s establishment, its aspirations and mission, its governance and operational principles, and its role in the broader international economic governance system. This has enabled it to undertake more international obligations, promote improvement of the current international economic system, and provide more international public goods. It is also a move that will help bring mutual benefits and win–win outcomes to all sides.

Jin Liqun

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New Dimensions for Global Governance in a World Undergoing Multiple Crises

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New global governance models are needed to keep up with a changing and often deteriorating global environment—locally, regionally, and globally—that are more networked and inclusive, fostering cooperation across borders and societies. The United Nations system still leads in the multilateral arena, but it must also adapt to meet today’s needs and live up to tomorrow’s expectations. Meanwhile, science diplomacy is effectively addressing the UN SDGs, science-policy interfaces, “boundary spanning,” and anticipation of future science-policy interactions.

Hans d’Orville

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Future of Global Governance in a Polarized World

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We know two things about the current age of the international system—that great power competition is in full swing and that global challenges like climate change and pandemics will grow ever more existential for human beings, making cooperation even more necessary. Both cooperation and competition have the potential for driving change. These must be embraced by world powers through a variety of platforms, including those like the Paris Peace Forum.

Justin Vaïsse

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Trends, Challenges, and Innovations in Global Talent Mobility and Governance

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The challenges to global talent mobility and fluctuations in global governance are inextricably linked and the Alliance of Global Talent Organizations (AGTO) provides innovative ideas for facing these challenges. After analyzing the existing operating models of other international organizations, the AGTO has created a model that focuses on talent mobility in a changing world that addresses a new era of globalization.

Mabel Lu Miao, John Zhanjie Zhao

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Reforming Global Governance for Sustainable Development: Role of the NDB and its Cooperation with China

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Formed in the aftermath of World War II, the current global governance system has major shortcomings, the most salient of which is that it does not adequately reflect the inherent rights and interests of developing countries. Reforms in the global governance system are urgently needed to help EMDCs become more resilient and better cope with unprecedented development challenges. BRICS has become an important platform for developing countries to engage in constructive dialogue and cooperation, while also driving reform. To this end, BRICS countries established the New Development Bank (NDB) to mobilize financing, enhance innovation and knowledge exchange, assist member countries in achieving the SDGs, and further improve efficiency and effectiveness to fulfill its mandate.

Qiangwu Zhou

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New Initiatives of Growth and Development

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Reviving Growth: Challenges and Policies

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A wide range of factors have led to broad economic slowdown and fiscal tightening, linked to a deepening crisis of development. Factor reallocation between firms has slowed and gains from better education and health have faded. A weakening of investment growth in EMDEs and slower growth in working-age populations has weighed on productivity growth. In addition to assistive policy measures, the global community should help expand financing and capacity-building to promote growth in EMDEs, MICs and to achieve the SDGs, with specific emphasis on contributions from the global community and the private sector.

M. Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge

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The Belt and Road Initiative and Italy’s Exit: A Personal Perspective

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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), introduced by China in 2013, represents one of the most ambitious global infrastructure projects in modern history. As a development strategy, it aims to enhance connectivity and economic integration across Asia, Europe, and Africa through investments in infrastructure, trade, and cultural exchange. Italy’s participation in the BRI, signed in 2019 during my tenure as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Economic Development, marked a significant milestone as Italy became the first G7 country to endorse the initiative formally. While my decision generated significant international and domestic attention, much of the debate has been clouded by ideological positions and political slogans, with insufficient focus on empirical evidence. This chapter seeks to clarify the rationale for Italy’s decision to join the BRI, address criticisms, and counter arguments for its withdrawal under Prime Minister Meloni.

Michele Geraci

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Re-imagining the International Trading System for re-Globalization

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Globalization and the ideologies that underpin it are experiencing unprecedented change, while geopolitical conflicts are exacerbating critical issues. This may necessitate a rethinking of globalization. Four major areas where these issues could be addressed include trade and the environment, trade and digital, economic security, and subsidization, especially in the context of US–China and EU–China relations, through discussion by states and decision-makers on both sides.

Pascal Lamy

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Global Challenges Require Strengthening Multilateralism

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Impacts from the 2008 financial crisis, COVID-19, and the Russia–Ukraine conflict have shaken the rules-based global economic and trade governance. The WTO is facing huge challenges including protectionist policies that would have been previously unthinkable, but now common under the pretext of national security. Borderless challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic require countries to work together and China should actively participate in this process while preventing the multilateral trading system from moving toward protectionism.

Yi Xiaozhun

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Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) and the Chinese Approach

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The UNIDO promotes and accelerates inclusive and sustainable industrial development in Member States and is recognized in SDG 9, which calls to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation, while its investment and technology promotion offices serve as hubs of science, technology, investment, and innovation. UNIDO, along with other organizations, has established close cooperative relations with China and actively promoted the flow of investment and technology into China, which is exploring a parallel path of economic development and green transformation that is an essential part of Chinese-style modernization and of great importance to developing countries.

Yabin Wu

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Building a Green and Inclusive Future: Accelerating China’s Low-Carbon Development

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Since 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have guided governments, businesses, and civil society toward building a sustainable future, protecting the planet and its most vulnerable people, and promoting universal peace and freedom. Yet, those critical goals for our shared survival risk are sliding out of reach. Progress has been slow, and the climate emergency in addition to global crises and wars put them in jeopardy. China is a key actor in this process, not only because it is a major producer of greenhouse gases, but also because it is leading the way in renewable energy and many of the green technologies required for the transition to low-carbon development. The SDGs are our compass for long-term sustainable development that delivers prosperity while protecting the planet and rely on three key factors—policy, financing, and international cooperation.

Beate Trankmann

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Bamboo: A Potential Tool for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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With 50 member states and five regional offices located, INBAR has been making a real difference in the lives of millions of people and environments around the world, raising standards, promoting bamboo construction, restoring degraded land, capacity-building, and driving green policy and SDG objectives. With the rapidly intensifying climate crisis and the setting of carbon neutrality targets necessitates new solutions and sustainable materials, bamboo serves as a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Ali Mchumo, Renfei Wang

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Exploring the Frontiers of Science Through the Shared Use of Mega-science Facilities

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Today, new revolutions in science, technology, and industrial transformation are happening at an increasingly rapid pace, while innovations in new areas hail the start of an era of “big” science and “big” convergence through the use of mega-science facilities, which have great potential to enhance our ability to explore the mysteries of nature and make breakthroughs in key core technologies. China’s mega-science facilities and scientists are working with the world for scientific advancement and the infinite benefits that can be achieved through cooperation and resource sharing to realize the full potential of these facilities and the scientists that use them.

Chunli Bai

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New Relations for Peoples and Governments

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The Collective Power of the Connectivity Ecosystem

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The GSMA is a global organisation that unites the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop, and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. The GSMA’s Connectivity for Good pillar engages members, governments, and civil society to advance positive policy and ensuring mobile technology has a significant positive impact on the achievement of the SDGs. GSMA also develops industry solutions and holds events around the world, including China, with which it works closely on industry development.

Sihan Bo Chen

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My Views on China and EU–China Relations

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China is no longer a simple producer of low-cost goods made with cheap labour. It’s a technological powerhouse that has lifted hundreds of million people out of poverty. This was made possible by the policy choices of the Chinese authorities in favour of open markets and free trade. However, the world has changed, and the benefits of the economic integration are being re-evaluated as we face emergencies in climate, public health and geopolitics. In this context, we believe that everyone, including China, must exercise more responsibility for security and peace.

Josep Borrell Fontelles

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Why African Countries Have and Will Continue to Look to China for Global Governance Reform

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Global South cooperation and Africa’s relationship with China have created a great deal of discussion, but there is a gap in the understanding from Africa’s perspective. This chapter seeks to explain collaboration between African countries and China on multilateral reform from an African perspective—and thereby answering several key questions including UN reform, global financial architecture, G20 membership and the relationship between global trade and climate change. African countries have successfully leveraged their relationship with China to secure global governance and multilateral reform and can do even more to realize sustainable and inclusive growth globally, producing huge wins in terms of global governance reform.

Hannah Ryder, Jing Cai, Huiyi Chen

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Progress for Children Is Progress for Everyone: Keeping Children at the Front and Centre of International Development

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In a world simultaneously facing multiple crises, children face widening disparities in terms of health, education, nutrition, sanitation and a number of other areas, while millions of children miss out on essential vaccines and live in active conflict zones. UNICEF and China have been working together to reach some of the most vulnerable children in low-income and middle-income countries through South-South cooperation, but all countries have a responsibility to get progress for children back on track and achieve the SDGs. Promoting children’s rights and well-being is not separate from the development agenda; it is central to it.

Amakobe Sande

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Humanitarian Action in Times of Crisis and Conflict: the Role and Experience of the International Committee of the Red Cross

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For the past 160 years, personnel of the ICRC and of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have carried out their humanitarian duties in almost every armed conflict that comes to mind on every continent. Challenges posed by contemporary armed conflicts for IHL and humanitarian action include the urbanization of warfare and the use of explosive weapons, which cause injury and death among civilians and their property. Faced so directly with the brutality of war and armed conflicts, we are thirsty for peace and improved coexistence of people and countries and whether in Ukraine, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mali, Colombia or elsewhere, the ICRC is fully engaged in its humanitarian mission.

Pierre Krähenbühl

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The Chinese Way—Harnessing the Power of Cultural Heritage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

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China’s cultural wealth and rich heritage form part of the core of human civilization. After China resumed its position at the United Nations 50 years ago, its economic achievements have been astounding, but its “intangible wealth” in education, sciences, culture, communication, and information, deserves equal attention. China, which has had a deep and long-lasting relationship with UNESCO, has put culture at the center of its development strategy and blazed a path toward “eco-civilization” while also ensuring that no one is left behind as it pushes forward.

Shabhaz Khan

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The Conception of the Political in Confucian Philosophy: The Philosophy of Family

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Tremors emanating from the newly emerging geopolitical order are testing the modern system of nation states, which emphasizes liberal individualism defined by individual autonomy and equality on an international scale. However, this has been wholly ineffective in addressing pressing issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental degradation, income inequities, proxy wars, and global hunger. This gathering storm must be met by a global village working collaboratively for the good of the world community as a whole. This is expressed well in Confucian philosophy where there is a perceived isomorphism incorporating the family, state, and world, with the state and the world being a simulacrum of the family as an institution, making it uniquely suited to a twenty-first century with a more multiethnic and interreligious global context.

Roger T. Ames

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Titel: Global Development and Cooperation with China
herausgegeben von: Henry Huiyao Wang
Mabel Lu Miao
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Electronic ISBN: 978-981-9624-52-2
Print ISBN: 978-981-9624-51-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2452-2