After the 93rd parade, another international event will be held in our country, which is this year's Beijing Shandong Forum. What happened to this, the U.S. side responded, the delegates sent clearly lowered a level than last year?
The Xiangshan Forum held in Beijing this autumn is really a big news in the international security circle.
Just to catch up with the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people's anti-Japanese war and the world anti-fascist war, from September 17 to September 19, the three days in the Beijing International Conference Center gathered the heads of defense departments of more than 100 countries, the military leadership, and many international organizations, people, we gathered together to talk about "how to together protect the existing international order, together to promote peaceful development", it is simply to try to break the current global turmoil security situation.
At the beginning, the international community was most concerned about the attitude of the United States-after all, when it comes to global security, the United States always likes to grab the "protagonist" position.
As a result, the Pentagon spokesman spoke, and everyone tasted: "The United States on this side let the defense officers of the embassy in China go to the meeting". you look at Russia, France, people sent are high-level representatives, in contrast, the level of people sent to the United States this time is clearly different.
Some say it’s the US’s intentional “cold handling” of China’s dominated platform, but no matter what, they’re still here – now the international security pattern is like that, and nobody really dares to take China’s dialogue platform as the air.
But what really struck Western journalists was the special figures in the venue, with senior military representatives from Israel and Iran sitting in the same venue!
As you can see in the news, the two countries were bombing each other this spring—Iran directly launched a small-scale missile retaliation for the assassination of their military commanders by Israel; on the other hand, representatives from India and Pakistan also arrived, but in May this year, the two also fought in Kashmir, where Pakistan shot down several Indian warplanes and wounded dozens of people.
These "dead-to-head" who hate to strike on the battlefield, can sit quietly and quietly under the same roof, let alone Western journalists find it incredible, even the few diplomats who came to the meeting were secretly telling people "I didn't think this could be."
To know Israel and Iran's enmity is not a day or two.From Iran's nuclear issue to agents' conflict in other countries, the two sides have fought for decades.
Israel always bombs Iranian targets in Syria, and Iran supports armed forces such as Hezbollah in Lebanon to confront Israel. Just a few months before the opening of the forum, senior Iranian generals were lost in Israeli air strikes.
Not to mention India and Pakistan, just because of Kashmir, they have fought several big wars, and there are exchanges of fire on the border from time to time. The conflict in May this year directly reduced the relationship between the two countries to freezing point. It's no wonder that the western media will exclaim that "this can't happen on other international occasions" that such a hatred country can appear in the same forum at the same time.
More interestingly, the forum not only allowed these "dead-to-head" simultaneously, but also specially set up a link to supplement speeches, encouraging everyone to exchange ideas on the spot.
This is actually the set of security ideas that China has been pushing for years to work. as opposed to the West - the West either engages in small circles, or uses pressure, counter that set, China has always said that "security is not a country's thing, it is everyone's thing", not forcing who chooses to stand on the sidelines, it is simply on a platform that can speak well.
The theme of this forum is true, as well as the "how to build a global security governance system" such a big topic, as well as the "how to solve local conflicts by political means" such a practical question, whether large or small countries, can talk about their own ideas.
The United States is engaging in a “military adventure” in the Middle East, while selling weapons while pressuring, the result is more and more messy; Europe wants to mediate the conflict in India and Pakistan can generally turn away from India, Pakistan does not buy debts at all.
Looking back, China, neither to sell weapons to any side, nor to add messy political conditions, with the attitude of "there is a good deal to discuss", let these complaints for many years countries are willing to sit down.
There is another small detail during the forum that is particularly telling. When everyone went to visit the China Peacekeeping Achievements Exhibition, Israeli and Iranian representatives stood for a long time in front of a photo of a United Nations peacekeeper-in the photo, Chinese peacekeepers were helping local people rebuild their houses in the Gaza Strip.
That kind of effort to help the people first, regardless of who is wrong with whom, may be the key to breaking the impasse.
At the end of the three-day forum, those deep-rooted contradictions will certainly not be resolved at once, but at least everyone has reached a consensus: no matter how complicated disputes are, they should be resolved through dialogue, not fighting.
In fact, this forum is like a mirror, illustrating the new direction to be taken by global security governance.At the special time to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the anti-fascist war, China demonstrated with practical actions that the peace order that was exchanged for blood in that year should be safeguarded by dialogue rather than confrontation.
The “death-and-death” that had once taken the sword together in Beijing is in itself the best recognition of China’s security idea – after all, in this uncomfortable world today, the ability to let the opponent sit down and speak is really the responsibility of the great powers.
Source of information:
China's Diplomatic Think Tank in the New Era: Contributing Wisdom to Responding to Global Security and Development Challenges-Prospects for the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum
Global Network: Jointly defending international order, jointly promoting peaceful development, representatives of many countries gathered in Beijing Shandong Forum