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At the summit of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) in
Tianjin—representing around 42 percent of the world's population—a new
world order has emerged, independent of the West, founded on the
principles of sovereignty, non-interference, mutually-beneficial
economic cooperation, and peaceful collaboration. It is an event of
global historical significance that China and India—the two most
populous nations, already representing 35 percent of the world’s
population—have now begun to cooperate closely with each other and
with Russia. The countries gathered at the SCO, along with the various
interconnected organizations such as the BRICS, the Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), ASEAN, CELAC,
and the African Union (AU), collectively represent 85 percent of
humanity.
The emergence of this new world order is a response to the
collective West’s attempt, after the end of the Cold War, to establish
a unipolar world under Anglo-American dominance—marked by endless
interventionist wars, sanctions, and regime-change efforts—which has
ultimately backfired completely. The nations of the Global Majority
are now overcoming an era of 500 years of colonialism and asserting
their right to independent economic development. This is made possible
above all by China’s unprecedented rise, which offers countries of the
Global South a model and the cooperation that the West denied them for
centuries.
Thus, the world has reached an absolute turning point. We can
either continue the geopolitical confrontation against Russia and
China, risking a third—and this time final—world war, or we can choose
to cooperate with this emerging new economic system. President Xi
Jinping has proposed the vision of a "Community with a Shared Future
for Mankind," which he emphasized in his Sep. 3 speech commemorating
the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat: "Humanity will either sink
together, or rise together!"
It is in the fundamental self-interest of the nations of the
Collective West—no longer truly united—to cooperate with the states of
the Global Majority and to jointly address the great challenges facing
humankind: overcoming poverty and underdevelopment, ensuring lasting
world peace, and securing the right of every person on this planet to
fulfill their potential.
For the realization of a shared community for the future of
humanity!
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