I AM one-week late in expressing my wholehearted jubilation for the 73rd National Day of China or the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PROC) this October 1.
It is an extremely historic date as it marked the rise of the nation and state that will deal the first blow to Western colonialism and imperialism in Asia in the 20th century. Remember that the PROC’s Volunteer Army defeated the U.S. instigated U.N. force in Korea during the Korean War.
The PROC did not even have tanks and warplanes yet its Volunteer Army crossed down the Yalu River and into North Korea and stealthily crept up towards the US-UN forces and defeated them time and again pushing them back to the South despite bombs and cannon shells dropped on them exceeding the tonnage of the entire Second World War. Two decades later the North Vietnamese with China and Russia’s help defeated US Imperialism in Vietnam.
An even greater victory that the October 1 proclamation of the new Chinese People’s Republic brought was the elimination of 5,000 years of poverty in China in only 70 years of its governance, a feat no nation or civilization ever achieved in the history of mankind.
China has also achieved th distinctin of being the largest economy in the world within that period of time in Power Purchase Parity (PPP) terms beating the U.S. to the top since 2014 and the second largest economy today.
Now, China seeks to share its good fortune and success with the world, especially the Third World countries, by communicating again and again the twin initiatives President Xi Jinping has reiterated since 2021 and 2022 in the wake of the pandemic, war and economic sanctions wars, and financial over-exuberance of major Western countries causing the massive global existential crisis today and in the foreseeable future.
The Global Times editorialized on its September 26, 2022 edition, “… peace and development as the theme of the times has remained unchanged. The concept of community of a shared future for mankind continues to strike a deep chord in the hearts of people…
“The Global Development Initiative (GDI) and the Global Security Initiative (GSI), proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2021 and 2022 respectively, constitute important practical support for the concept of a ‘community of shared future…”
Development leads to prosperity, security leads to stability which leads to development and prosperity.
There is scant chance of development if there is no security, and security must be based on “indivisible security” meaning, the security of one country cannot overstep the security of another that can be ensured by the principle of “peaceful coexistence” and “non-interference in internal affairs.”
Massive development follows through such programs as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and BRICS.
In contrast, the U.S. has created chaos upon chaos since 2001, after the World Trade Center terror attack to justify its “War on Terror” that terrorized innocent nations from Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya and so on for twenty years and at the cost of $8-trillions, and the targeted countries even more trillions in destruction and millions of lives lost.
Today, the U.S. continues its crusade of mayhem in Ukraine, and recently blew up Nord Stream 1 and 2 to deepen the European energy crisis even more.
Beyond Ukraine and the destruction of the E.U. economy, the U.S. has also moved to light the fires of conflict in Asia with its “Taiwan independence” project and the Philippines’ “West Philippine Sea” claim hoax, supplying the two with arms and motivation for tension and conflict. It is fortunate that the Philippines is merely paying lip service to the U.S. plots although this is still confusing to its own people. The Philippines should instead unequivocably tell the U.S. off that it is against warmongering.
The Philippines should wholehearted, openly and loudly promote the twin initiatives of China and President Xi Jinping of Global Security Initiative (GSI) and Global Development Initiative (GDI) as practicable and implementable programs for the rest of ASEAN and the developing world of Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. That way we ensure the future of the nation and our home – Earth.
We in the media must give prominence to information about such positive initiatives for world peace and prosperity rather than highlighting the sensational news about war and conflict, help create the atmosphere for constructive and positive, cooperative efforts at building a better world. The Philippines and ASEAN media must make an emphatic contribution to this.
To end this article for this week, let me reiterate our greetings to the Chinese nation on the occasion of China’s 73rd National Day and hail President Xi Jinping’s twin initiatives for the peace and prosperity of the world, the GDI and the GSI for a better world and end to Western hegemony’s war mongering and empire building.