16 BEIJING REVIEW OctOber 9, 2014
Keeping the Peace
A new Asian curity mechanism is needed to ensure lasting stability in the region By yu Lintao
work to address traditional and non-traditional curity problems bad on dialogue and the connsus of regional countries.
Due to differences between countries and existing interest conflicts, yang pro-pod that Asian countries should start the new curity framework through strength-ening economic links and cooperation in non-traditional curity areas, which will help accumulate mutual trust and minimize hos-tility. For instance, yang claimed that China and Japan could start their curity coopera-tion through joint efforts for environmental and energy curity.
‘one Belt and one Road’
Despite many differences and disputes, most Asian countries have put economic develop-ment as their
foremost goal in their policy agenda, which obrvers said has formed the basis for regional cooperation.
Deepening economic cooperation could lay a solid foundation for enhancing political and curity cooperation between related nations, yang said to Beijing Review .
“By incorporating this common goal, the ‘One Belt and One Road’ initiatives mean that related countries could shelve or even discard their disputes in political and curity fields to cooperate with each other in their pursuit of economic development,” yang added.
The “One Belt and One Road” initiatives aim to build a bridge of peaceful develop-ment and common prosperity among the peoples of Asia, and linking them to the
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he establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community more than 60 years ago contributed to the birth of the EU, which guaranteed the long-term peace in West Europe after the two world wars in the 20th century. The EU thus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012, in part for its efforts to overcome economic struggles and social unrest in the region.
However, in Asia, since the end of World War II, while boasting rapid economic development, regional countries have dragged their feet in curity cooperation. Along with intertwined territorial disputes, Asian countries are also commonly faced with increasing non-traditional curity threats from natural disasters, religious extremism and international terrorism. But in the face of the challenges, Asian countries are basically lf-reliant due to prevailing doubts and misgivings about others. Now, China is emingly assuming the lead to change the situation by promoting the “One Belt and One Road” (namely the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road) initiatives and a new Asian curity perception.
At a recent forum commemorating International Day of Peace in Xi’an, in north-west China’s Shaanxi Province, Asian thinkers explored and discusd ways of solving curity problems in Asia through regional economic integration and exchanges as well as mutual learning among Asian cultures.
A new type of curity
The new Asian curity perception was first propod by Chine President Xi Jinping at the fourth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia held in Shanghai in May. In the meeting, Xi stresd that China will work with all parties to propo a com
mon, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable Asian curity outlook, which con-stitutes the basic features of the new Asian curity perception.
“Though there are different curity systems in the region, a broadly reprenta-tive one covering all Asian countries is still abnt,” yang Xiyu, a nior rearch fellow with the China Institute of International Studies, said at the forum.
yang commented, “The current curity frameworks in Asia were mostly established during the Cold War era and feature military alliances such as the two bilateral alliances between the United States and Japan and South Korea.
However, yang noted that such military alliances are zero-sum structures as when members of the alliances feel cure, their targeted countries will feel threatened and rearm themlves, resulting in a new curity dilemma.
Akkan Suver, President of the Marmara Group Foundation of Turkey, claimed that no country will feel cure on the basis of oth-ers’ incurity.
“The once-vast world is now a global village as a result of globalization,” Suver said at the forum. “Int
erdependence wields great impor-tance, and states are made inparable from each other. In this environment, any kind of po-litical, economic, religious or ethnic conflict has a great potential to spread to other parts of the globe. Therefore, the international community must come to a common understanding in or-der to cooperate against potential threats that undermine global peace.”
Under such circumstances, yang told Beijing Review , a top-level design is needed in building a new and common curity frame-
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peoples of other continents. In the next five years, China has pledged to import $10 tril-lion worth of goods, invest over $500 billion overas, and nd 500 million tourists to other countries. The Chine Government has also propod coordination with coun-tries along the propod belt and road over the development strategies in the process of implementing the initiatives, with a view to creating new economic growth points and job opportunities.
During President Xi’s trip to Tajikistan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and India in September, he also propod cloly knitting China’s competitive industries with the geographical features and the development needs of the four countries on the propod “One Belt and One Road.”
Different from the ancient Silk Road, which mainly focud on East-West trade, the China-propod “One Belt and One Road” could also include the flow of financial elements, information, technology and per-sonnel, said Xia Liping, Dean of the School of Political Science and International Relations at the Shanghai-bad Tongji University.
Xia believes the implementation of the “One Belt and One Road” initiatives will help boost mutual trust among related countries, which will conquently promote the build -ing of curity cooperation across all of Asia.
“The experience of the ancient silk route demonstrated that countries with different races and cultural backgrounds are fully ca-pable of sharing peace and development,” said Luxman Siriwardena, Executive Director of the Pathfinder Foundation of Sri Lanka.
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In this respect, China’s initiatives to revive the land-bad Silk Road and to create a new Maritime Silk Road bad on the principles of the ancient trade routes are wholly commendable, Siriwardena added.
Siddhant Raj Pandey, a member of the Board of Directors of the Nepal
responsibleforInstitute of International and Strategic Studies, told Beijing Review that a simultaneous revival of the Silk Road in different forms would mean more than just trade. “It could also mean that nations will have a better relationship and peace will automatically come about, becau it is op-portunity cost,” he added.
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“China’s recent initiatives in building the two Silk Roads will bring substantial benefits to global investment and trade; on the other hand, it encourages exchange and dialogue between countries,” Pandey noted.
Mutual learning
As the motto inscribed on the stone wall at the entrance to the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, says, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defens of peace must be constructed.” Likewi, Asian thinkers also noted that exchanges and mutual learning among cultures bear huge significance for Asian curity cooperation.
Su Hao, Director of the Department of Diplomacy at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, noted that mutual understanding and recognition are the first steps for mutual trust, which is in a priority for promoting -curity cooperation in Asia.
“Many countries in Asia including China are making efforts to deepen mutual understand-ing between each other like hosting activities commemorating International Day of Peace,” Su said to Beijing Review . “Fortunately, there is similarity of values in different Asian cultures featuring harmony, which offers a basis for better intercommunication. Correspondingly,
better exchanges and mutual learning can rve as a bond to prerve peace and stability in the continent.”
Kogendro Singh, Secretary of the All India Peace and Solidarity Organization, also stresd the power of cultural exchanges in deepening mutual understanding and pro-moting curity cooperation.
Singh said that as Xi has pointed out, cul-ture is imbedded in all aspects of economy, society and institutions and its influence goes beyond time and borders.
“In today’s world, people live in a global village. It is an era when different cultures interct and an era that more than ever requires tolerance and understanding. Exchanges and dialogue are the fundamen-tal way to achieve harmonious coexistence of different cultures and an important foun-dation of understanding and mutual trust between people,” Singh noted. He added that people should approach other cultures with a broad mind, and learn from others by drawing on their strengths.气象女孩
“We should ek connsus and reduce disputes whenever possible and prevent differences from degenerating into confron-tation,” Singh said.
Han Fangming, Chairman of the Charhar Institute of China, called for greater attention to peace education in Asian countries in ad-vancing curity cooperation.
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bulkHan claimed that peace is not only a theoretical concept, but a systematic sci-ence with practical significance. According to him, peace education can play a bigger role and attain better effects among teenagers who values have yet to take shape.
“Therefore, we need to extend the education to middle and primary schools. So the next generation who is currently in schools will be the driving force for future peace building in Asia and the world at large. Only when they are educated on peace, hold peace dear to their hearts, and learn meth-ods to deal with conflicts at a young age, will they understand how to create a ‘more peaceful Asia,’” Han said. n
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作者：yu Lintao
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人妖空姐北京周报（英文版）
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