{"id":23685,"date":"2025-05-14T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=23685"},"modified":"2025-05-14T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:07:03","slug":"global-times-to-the-point-china-on-an-equal-footing-diversity-and-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=23685","title":{"rendered":"Global Times: To The Point | China on an equal footing &#8211; Diversity and Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">BEIJING<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">May 14, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> in the 20th century was looking for an answer to <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> and the West. Of course, As soon as we understand <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> not as a normative project, but as a result of its history, the reasons why neither the societies of the African continent nor the societies of <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span> will be able to develop in the same way as <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> become clear very quickly. It is therefore only natural that <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> should seek its own path \u2013 anything else would be absurd. Apart from the fact that a uniformity of the world would contradict our\u00a0<span>high <\/span>regard for cultural diversity and the human need for it, such uniformity would not be desirable for many other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>We know from the history of mutual perceptions that the dream of <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> was very momentous, and one can assume that <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> dream of westernization has been at least as productive over the past hundred years or even more. Of course, we know that, just as in <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>, development and modernization in the different regions of <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> has been quite different &#8211; so there has been and still is a &#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> at different speeds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we have realized the &#8220;limits to growth&#8221;, the question of a modernity that enables a global society with a certain degree of prosperity arises. At the same time, we should not unduly restrict the opportunities for future generations. Finding a solution here is not easy, but our historical experience and the cultural capabilities of mankind allow us to look to the future with optimism. The fact that the future is open was already known to earlier generations, without cultivating a vision of a common future for mankind.<\/p>\n<p>And because &#8216;internationalization&#8217; never encompassed &#8220;all aspects of Chinese life&#8221;, it is all the more plausible that a future with Chinese characteristics is now being sought. Thus, for <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> departure into the future, European sinology is now facing new challenges, the most important of which are, firstly, recognizing the limits of growth, secondly, respecting Chinese perspectives and, thirdly, recognizing the challenges of a post-colonial world society.<\/p>\n<p>Prospects are not bad, not only for <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> but also for <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>. <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>, however, should remember its own experiences in the process of modernization. The creative experiences of the past and artistic positions as well as research efforts that require freedom, especially in basic research, give us hope. In addition, in the encounter of cultures new creativity as well as productive misunderstandings and very often hybrid constellations emerged.<\/p>\n<p>These opportunities for <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>, however, can only be exploited if <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> heeds the following five demands:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>It must, firstly, remain aware of the historical dimension. Only if <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> remembers that the West&#8217;s innovation leadership was the result of specific constellations will it be able to maintain this innovation leadership in the future. For in the future, just as in the past, prosperity cannot be maintained without an innovative edge;<\/li>\n<li>It must, secondly, cultivate a culture of cooperation, and not &#8211; to give an example &#8211; restrict small car imports from <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> to <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> just for the short-term benefit of protecting jobs within <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>;<\/li>\n<li>Thirdly, it must actively promote educational exchange and the enrichment of learning strategies;<\/li>\n<li>Fourthly, it must link its own cultural ideas with other concepts of life and different world-conceptions. The result will be an interweaving of cultural patterns creates new opportunities;<\/li>\n<li><span>Fifth<\/span>, it must constantly re-establish the values of European modernity &#8211; not only in external relations, but also in its own educational and discourse spheres. Only from such a discourse can the power be gained to integrate the respective counterpart into a common discourse;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These demands refer to basic cultural structures, to knowledge of the other and of one&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n<p>However, without a vision of <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> as a small part of the whole world, it will be shipwrecked. <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> has so far failed to integrate its own history into the European unification process. Against the thesis that <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> has stimulated modernity on a global scale, but is now &#8220;on the old side&#8221;, I hope that <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> will set itself a goal for 2050 and define what part it wants to play in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of equating itself with the concept of the &#8220;West&#8221;, <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> must limit itself and contain its internal rivalries. At the same time, however, we must abandon the idea that one must always have hegemony. This vision of world domination, which is deeply rooted in monotheistic concepts of God, may have boosted <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe&#8217;s<\/span> successes in recent centuries, but if it is not broken, it will only bring us closer to the self-abolition of humanity. Because the West is already everywhere today. <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe&#8217;s<\/span> future lies in the realization of its intellectual traditions in the broadest sense and in overcoming the obsession with hegemony, which is mainly maintained in order to cover up internal tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Because all the signs indicate that it is in the interests of both the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> for <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> to regain its internal stability, the chances of the EU developing further are good, despite the many unfinished tasks. However, there must be a new understanding within <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> about the other world zones as well as about its own intellectual traditions, from which an international, but also an inner-European discussion is fed. To this end, it would make sense for the respective EU Council presidents to speak to all Europeans with the aim of an inclusive overall address. It is precisely because <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> is currently largely speechless that such speeches must be held again and again! But to be able to conceive itself in a global setting knowledge of other cultural traditions including <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> past is one of crucial prerequisites. This may enable <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> to learn from <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> road to modernity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">BEIJING<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">May 14, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> in the 20th century was looking for an answer to <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> and the West. Of course, As soon as we understand <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> not as a normative project, but as a result of its history, the reasons why neither the societies of the African continent nor the societies of <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span> will be able to develop in the same way as <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> become clear very quickly. It is therefore only natural that <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> should seek its own path \u2013 anything else would be absurd. Apart from the fact that a uniformity of the world would contradict our\u00a0<span>high <\/span>regard for cultural diversity and the human need for it, such uniformity would not be desirable for many other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>We know from the history of mutual perceptions that the dream of <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> was very momentous, and one can assume that <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> dream of westernization has been at least as productive over the past hundred years or even more. Of course, we know that, just as in <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>, development and modernization in the different regions of <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> has been quite different &#8211; so there has been and still is a &#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> at different speeds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we have realized the &#8220;limits to growth&#8221;, the question of a modernity that enables a global society with a certain degree of prosperity arises. At the same time, we should not unduly restrict the opportunities for future generations. Finding a solution here is not easy, but our historical experience and the cultural capabilities of mankind allow us to look to the future with optimism. The fact that the future is open was already known to earlier generations, without cultivating a vision of a common future for mankind.<\/p>\n<p>And because &#8216;internationalization&#8217; never encompassed &#8220;all aspects of Chinese life&#8221;, it is all the more plausible that a future with Chinese characteristics is now being sought. Thus, for <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> departure into the future, European sinology is now facing new challenges, the most important of which are, firstly, recognizing the limits of growth, secondly, respecting Chinese perspectives and, thirdly, recognizing the challenges of a post-colonial world society.<\/p>\n<p>Prospects are not bad, not only for <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> but also for <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>. <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>, however, should remember its own experiences in the process of modernization. The creative experiences of the past and artistic positions as well as research efforts that require freedom, especially in basic research, give us hope. In addition, in the encounter of cultures new creativity as well as productive misunderstandings and very often hybrid constellations emerged.<\/p>\n<p>These opportunities for <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>, however, can only be exploited if <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> heeds the following five demands:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>It must, firstly, remain aware of the historical dimension. Only if <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> remembers that the West&#8217;s innovation leadership was the result of specific constellations will it be able to maintain this innovation leadership in the future. For in the future, just as in the past, prosperity cannot be maintained without an innovative edge;<\/li>\n<li>It must, secondly, cultivate a culture of cooperation, and not &#8211; to give an example &#8211; restrict small car imports from <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> to <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> just for the short-term benefit of protecting jobs within <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>;<\/li>\n<li>Thirdly, it must actively promote educational exchange and the enrichment of learning strategies;<\/li>\n<li>Fourthly, it must link its own cultural ideas with other concepts of life and different world-conceptions. The result will be an interweaving of cultural patterns creates new opportunities;<\/li>\n<li><span>Fifth<\/span>, it must constantly re-establish the values of European modernity &#8211; not only in external relations, but also in its own educational and discourse spheres. Only from such a discourse can the power be gained to integrate the respective counterpart into a common discourse;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These demands refer to basic cultural structures, to knowledge of the other and of one&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n<p>However, without a vision of <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> as a small part of the whole world, it will be shipwrecked. <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> has so far failed to integrate its own history into the European unification process. Against the thesis that <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> has stimulated modernity on a global scale, but is now &#8220;on the old side&#8221;, I hope that <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> will set itself a goal for 2050 and define what part it wants to play in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of equating itself with the concept of the &#8220;West&#8221;, <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> must limit itself and contain its internal rivalries. At the same time, however, we must abandon the idea that one must always have hegemony. This vision of world domination, which is deeply rooted in monotheistic concepts of God, may have boosted <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe&#8217;s<\/span> successes in recent centuries, but if it is not broken, it will only bring us closer to the self-abolition of humanity. Because the West is already everywhere today. <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe&#8217;s<\/span> future lies in the realization of its intellectual traditions in the broadest sense and in overcoming the obsession with hegemony, which is mainly maintained in order to cover up internal tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Because all the signs indicate that it is in the interests of both the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> for <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> to regain its internal stability, the chances of the EU developing further are good, despite the many unfinished tasks. However, there must be a new understanding within <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> about the other world zones as well as about its own intellectual traditions, from which an international, but also an inner-European discussion is fed. To this end, it would make sense for the respective EU Council presidents to speak to all Europeans with the aim of an inclusive overall address. It is precisely because <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> is currently largely speechless that such speeches must be held again and again! But to be able to conceive itself in a global setting knowledge of other cultural traditions including <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> past is one of crucial prerequisites. This may enable <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span> to learn from <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> road to modernity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}