BEIJING Cheap Terrelle Pryor Sr. Jersey , Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The largest carbon market across the globe opened this week in China, the latest in a series of concrete measures the world's largest developing country has launched in the battle against climate change.
The new program epitomizes China's strong sense of responsibility as a major country in the world, and embodies the philosophy Chinese President Xi Jinping articulated at the beginning of the year in the snow-capped Alpine town of Davos, Switzerland.
In his landmark keynote speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Xi shared his vision on how to steer the world economy out of difficulty through concerted effort and urged members of the international community to take on the responsibility of the times.
Xi's inspiring words, as WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab said, have brought ""sunshine"" at a time of uncertainty and volatility.
RESPONSIBILITY CRISIS
History does not lack crucial moments that call for responsible action from the world's major countries.
In the political sense Cheap Trumaine Johnson Jersey , the modern world was shaped by Western powers through centuries of brutal and destructive wars as well as struggles for hegemony. Oftentimes, they would pursue their selfish interests in the guise of the ""general good.""
Edward Hallett Carr, a British political scientist and historian, wrote in his classic book on international relations, ""The Twenty Years' Crisis,"" that ""this kind of hypocrisy is a special and characteristic peculiarity of the Anglo-Saxon mind.""
A telling example in recent history is the Iraq War. To guarantee its strategic presence in the region, the United States went to war in Iraq based on just one piece of fabricated intelligence and a false promise to liberate the country from tyranny.
Today Cheap Isaiah Crowell Jersey , 14 years after the start of the war, Iraq still suffers crises on multiple fronts, and the peace prospects in the wider Middle East could not be darker.
The past year has also witnessed how a ""go-it-alone"" superpower can haunt the rest of the international community. In less than a year in office, U.S. President Donald Trump has cut Washington loose from one key international treaty after another.
Chanting the ""America First"" slogan, he has accused many -- if not all -- of his country's trading partners of taking advantage of the United States, and threatened to renegotiate for what he calls ""fairer"" deals.
Such a doctrine of unilateralism has given rise to widespread worries at a time when multilateralism is needed to accommodate the deeply intertwined interests of all nations.
A SHARED VISION
Xi's Davos speech, in which he rooted for free trade Cheap Jason Myers Jersey , an open economy and globalization, sketches out his multilateralism-based approach to invigorating global growth, and stems from his vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Even since he first expounded the overarching idea to the world in 2013 in a speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, he has gradually fleshed it out over the years.
""Our world is full of hope and challenges. ... No country can address alone the many challenges facing mankind; no country can afford to retreat into self-isolation,"" Xi said in his momentous report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October.
In this era of growing challenges and risks, like climate change, ravaging terrorism Cheap Brandon Copeland Jersey , and rising trade protectionism, Xi's proposition charts a clear and viable course forward.
""We have a shared destiny. ... We have to develop our own policy based on common shared interests. That will be a good starting point,"" said Gerhard Stahl, a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
In Xi's view, a community with a shared future for humankind should feature mutual respect, diversity and dialogue based on equality and peaceful co-existence among different civilizations Cheap Doug Middleton Jersey , and the world order should be decided not by one country or a few, but by broad international consensus.
William Jones, Washington Bureau chief of U.S. publication Executive Intelligence Review, said Xi's proposal is an ""attempt by the Chinese president to overcome and replace the traditional notion of 'geopolitics,' in which there are always 'winners' and 'losers,' and in which the principle of 'might makes right' tends to predominate