What China’s Global Security Initiative Means for World Order

The GSI concept is the security policy foundation for the multilateral world order. But there is resistance. Why are they part of the world’s restoration?

In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has launched three global initiatives: the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) and the Global Security Initiative (GSI). These aim to provide a framework for practical steps towards a multipolar world. They must support this process politically and culturally.

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A global security initiative and security strategy is very important for the development of a multipolar world, which helps to keep the losses of friction as low as possible in the coming overturn of the global balance of power towards a multipolar world and above all, to prevent further wars in this way.

Unipolar and Multipolar World Order

The current world order is a US-dominated, unipolar world order that emerged after World War II. Indeed, American dominance corresponded to the real power relations that prevailed after 1945, economic strength, and the cultural appeal of the American way of life, especially in the Western world, but also in the countries of the global South.

However, in recent decades the United States has left no stone unturned from its de facto world hegemony to create an organization economically but also to become self-reliant in terms of security policy.

This state of unilateralism was created by the creation of US-dominated multilateral financial institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

American economic hegemony became the world currency by revaluing its own national currency, the US dollar, which since 1973 was not backed by gold, but by international oil trade1.

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With the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), especially during the era of the Black Conflict, the United States understood how to defend its economic, political and cultural hegemony militarily as well.

The unipolar world order that developed historically was not based solely on the natural conditions of the United States, such as territorial size, a large, well-educated population, immense wealth in natural resources, military strength, and cultural attraction. and arbitrarily UN. Countless wars to violate the Charter and systematically consolidate and expand their hegemony.

With the help of its hegemonic levers, the United States has built imperialist relations with the rest of the world, especially the global South, with little or no attachment. As we have seen over the decades, such a world order is unstable. In this world order, the law of the strong is not the law that applies equally to all. The double standard lamented by many states and peoples is obvious.

There is a global lack of confidence in international institutions to collectively and peacefully deal with rising global challenges such as poverty, climate change and various forms of discrimination.

On the other hand, above all, the process of global power transitions has begun with the rise of the People’s Republic of China from a developing country to a developed economy. Thanks to rapid economic growth and a large population, the country is poised to become the world’s largest economic power.

So it is in the nature of the new changes that the US-dominated unipolar world order begins to falter, and the US and its dependent West must begin to take into account the new realities.

The future world order will be a multilateral world order anyway. In this new world order, the three superpowers, the United States, the European Union, and the People’s Republic of China, are pitted against each other because of their economic prowess.

Instead of the US dollar as a single world currency and thus a significant US monopoly, there are three world currencies: the US dollar, the euro and the Chinese currency the renminbi.

These three world currencies take into account the role of these three economic centers in world trade. Instead of the monopolistic global financial systems that currently allow the US to use sanctions to regulate or destroy any state that wants to break away from US hegemony, democratically controlled financial institutions are emerging globally.

This growth is due to the competition between the three world currencies. As enshrined in the United Nations Charter, the multilateral world order should significantly improve the conditions for world peace.

In the current unipolar world order, the US and its Western allies face essentially two opposite alternatives: one is to engage rationally and rationally towards a multipolar world order and, as a result, peacefully engage. Accepting the creation of a multilateral world order and removing the rules based on its dominance, or taking a confrontational path all the way against the multilateral world order and risking new global conflicts, wars or even a new world war.

However, the overtly hostile responses of the United States and its allies, including Germany, against the PRC as a major driver of this development show that they have openly chosen an alternative to confrontation.

Signals for this selfish and dangerous decision can be seen in the definition of China as the new adversary and the deployment of part of the US military armada in the Pacific Ocean.

In addition, the Taiwan question, which received little attention until a few years ago, has been promoted as a global conflict issue and used as a pretext for economic sanctions or acts of war against China.

Even more dangerous is the attempt to sever highly developed economic ties with the People’s Republic of China under the absurd pretext of reducing dependency. It is difficult to deny and all these events happening before our eyes unfortunately prove that the US wants to torpedo the world’s development towards a multilateral world order, so as not to give up the enormous advantages that arise from hegemony. condition.

On the other hand, China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) appears to be a reasonable strategy that will help reduce the political and social costs of transitioning to a multilateral world order.

The core content of China’s GSI is the principle of indivisible security. Instead of a Cold War mentality, a quest for supremacy, a block conflict, it is important to be committed to a vision of a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security and to work together to maintain world peace. UN Commit to principles expressed in the Charter”.2

Seen this way, the People’s Republic of China places great emphasis on the world community’s commitment to historical achievements, while the West, unwaveringly following the hegemonic policy of the United States, has been promoting the concept of a rules-based world order for many years, which excludes international rules and defers to the UN. It enables them to adhere to the charter to provide content that suits their interests at their own discretion.

However, based on China’s GSI, no one should put their own security above the security of others; Differences and conflicts should be resolved peacefully through negotiation.

Based on their GSI, the People’s Republic of China developed a ten-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. Despite this, the Western media and academics largely ignore the GSI, which is based on the basic principles of the concept of common security and is essential for sustainable world peace in a multilateral world order.

China’s GSI should be broadly broken down according to regional characteristics and further developed into a globally coherent strategy of regionally cooperative security structures. In other words, broadly structured economic cooperation, in the form of the European Union, combined with the concept of common security, would represent the security policy basis of a multilateral world and sustainable world peace.