ISSI hosts forum on Global Security Initiative( GSI) China’s World View
The China Pakistan Study Centre( CPSC) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad( ISSI) hosted a forum entitled “ Global Security Initiative( GSI) China’s World View. ” Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairperson Senate’s Standing Committee on Defence, delivered the keynote address. prestigious speakers including diplomats and former and serving high ranking officers presented their perspectives. The forum handed precious perceptivity into China’s vision for global security and development and how China wishes to engage with different countries and global associations through this vital frame. Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, during his keynote address, stressed that the Global Security Initiative( GSI) is part of compound whole i.e., China’s vision of common fortune, grounded on the conception of inseparable security, UN Charter, transnational law and five principles of peacefulco-existence, which is in discrepancy with the cold war, zero- sum mindset. He stressed that China’s world view is embedded in the strategic culture of China and contemporary security script. He stressed that GSI reflects the strategic study of China, which is deduced from colorful sources and aspects of China’s public experience including the Silk Road, the Great Wall of China, PLA’s Long March, and “ the century of demotion ” that the country recovered from. He lauded Pakistan’s abiding fellowship with China, citing loyal support of both countries for each other’s issues of core interest. He stressed that the future belongs to connectivity and regionalism, not the Cold War. He suggested that the rise of multipolarity necessitates multinational approach to global security issues, including estimable enterprise like GSI. In his welcome reflections, DG ISSI Ambassador Sohail Mahmood underlined the significance of China’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative( BRI) that has been a global, innovative and successful adventure of China laying down a comprehensive frame for cooperation and development. He added that President Xi Jinping has since consecutively proposed three other major global enterprise, videlicet the Global Development Initiative( GDI), the Global Security Initiative( GSI), and the Global Civilisation Initiative( GCI). Ambassador Sohail Mahmood stressed how these enterprise not only indicate the depth of President Xi’s thinking and vision as part of his gospel of erecting a “ Community with a Shared Future for humanity ” but also illustrate China’s readiness to engage encyclopedically in three vital disciplines for humanity, that is, development, security, and civilization. In the background of recent global and indigenous developments, Ambassador Sohail Mahmood noted that GDI, GSI and GCI are imaged to serve as the structure blocks for a world aspired to be peaceful, prosperous and harmonious. GSI embodies China’s commitment to global peace and development and reflects an entirely different paradigm – prioritizing cooperation over battle, placing decoration on collective respect and collective benefit, and seeking palm- palm issues.
Before, Dr. Talat Shabbir, Director CPSC, in his introductory reflections stated that, the GSI promotes inclusive, multinational cooperation to effectively address challenges. He added that the Global Security Initiative offers a lamp of stopgap in moment’s transnational geography, furnishing a comprehensive frame to attack complex security challenges. By emphasizing common, collaborative, and sustainable security, the GSI fosters collaboration among nations for peace, stability, and global substance. Ambassador Masood Khalid, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the People’s Republic of China. in his reflections underlined the significance of GSI and noted that all the principles outlined in GSI are in full consonance with the UN Charter and reflect the bournes of countries, and transnational and indigenous associations. China is steadily progressing towards its pretensions of development and connectivity and GSI provides a workable frame for sculpturing out a new armature for reversing the prejudiced westernized model for security. Major General( Retd)Dr. Muhammad Samrez Salik, Former Director General, ISSRA, remarked that in order to understand GSI it’s important to understand the strategic culture and study of China. He noted that Chinese strategic study is grounded on benevolence and humane power, acceptance of others, andnon-aggression which sets it piecemeal from the Western study. casting up, he noted that the West has ruled the world through technology, frugality and information dominance. While China is doing veritably well in the first two, in the sphere of information and narrative- structure, China needs to pace up its sweats to fight propaganda. Shi Yuanqiang, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of People’s Republic of China in Islamabad noted that the contemporary world is witnessing profound changes in the transnational geography. The interplay of traditional andnon-traditional security pitfalls, ascendance and power- play is rising. He stated that GSI focuses on dialogue over battle and cooperation over zero- sum programs. He stressed that GSI is creating space for collaboration and transnational peace through dialogue. In conclusion,Mr. Yuanqiang appreciated Pakistan’s sweats in fighting terrorism and its part in tactfulness and agreement in world conflicts. Mohammad Aamir Khan, Director General( China), MoFA in his reflections expressed that the GSI is estimable as it speaks about the rights of the countries, irrespective of their status as big or small, in the transnational system. He noted that the challenge of instability has complex motorists, which aren’t limited to physical security only. He also appertained to the witnessing indigenous security volatility in Europe and Middle East, rising unilateralism and protectionism. He stressed that security is deficient without saintship of the people’s right to tone- determination. He concluded that GSI aims to encourage peace, stability and transnational cooperation. In his concluding reflections, Ambassador Khalid Mahmood, Chairman BoG, ISSI, underlined that the United Nations was established grounded on principles of security, development and respect for mortal rights. still, the important countries used proscription for their interests, ignoring the established principles. also, the West has used IMF and World Bank for their dominance in global profitable affairs. After the9/11 attacks, an interventionist policy was witnessed with interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya etc. On the negative, China introduced three enterprise that image the collective respect of countries and peaceful resolution of conflicts. The forum was attended by noted academics, experts, suppose- tank representatives, interpreters, members of the politic fraternity and civil society.
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