The concept of the Community with a shared future for mankind: Chinese vision of the new world order (a decade of realization)

Abstract

The article analyzes China's experience in promoting the concept of a Community with a shared future for mankind. The idea was first voiced to an international audience by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, during his first state visit to Russia. Over the next 10 years, the concept became the major component of China's foreign policy doctrine and was actively used as a part of “soft power” at home and abroad. Its author, Xi Jinping, remained the main propagandist of the concept. His high position allows him to present it in various configurations at the most authoritative international forums. Xi Jinping supplemented the concept with three initiatives (global development, security and civilization), as well as a cultural component. The evolution of the concept indicates a change in China's assessment of its role in the international arena: from a developing state to a world power that claims its right to participate in global governance, propose its own programs for reforming the world order and play the most active role in it. The PRC applies the concept differentially to developed and developing countries, the so called Global South and East. In developing countries it is backed up by a real basis in the form of assistance through the Belt and Road project. Depending on the international situation, China changes the forms of promoting the concept, including economic international, regional and bilateral forums, political party summits, inviting foreign youth to study, assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, public diplomacy, etc. The concept has not received worldwide recognition, but it has not gone unnoticed. Taking into account the international situation, China will certainly continue to promote it in the world.

Keywords

• china
• xi jinping
• community with a shared future for mankind
• politics
• diplomacy