Chapter 54 A new trend of cultural integration in today's world

When you talked about the great rejuvenation of Chinese civilization, you mentioned many situations at the level of culture and civilization.Do you think that the idea of ​​a harmonious world and China's path of peaceful development can also be based on culture and civilization in the process of being accepted by the world? The concept of a harmonious world and the development path of China's peaceful rise can of course be found in terms of culture and civilization in the process of being accepted by the world.Because the idea of ​​cultural diversity and world diversity is becoming more and more popular in today's world.Although America's unilateralism, pre-emptive strikes, and export of democracy to the Middle East have aroused strong resentment in the Islamic world, and to some extent manifested as a clash of cultures, it is incompatible with the overall "clash of civilizations" predicted by Huntington. different.The "dialogue of civilizations" proposed by Iran was adopted by the United Nations. In October 2005, the United Nations adopted an international convention on the protection of cultural diversity, marking a new stage in the international community's understanding of this concept. In 2006, the Spanish government put forward the idea of ​​"an alliance of civilizations", which not only aimed at the theory of "clash of civilizations", but also aimed at the traditional concept of military alliances.This paved the way for the acceptance of the idea of ​​a harmonious world.

There is a new trend of cultural integration in the world today. First, more developing countries are moving from passive to active integration into the world system in the process of participating in globalization, regionalization, and pursuit of modernization; One-way export culture to two-way learning and import culture of other peoples.Elites in Western countries began to call for learning from Asia and China, which is an unprecedented phenomenon.Former German Chancellor Schmidt wrote books and delivered speeches in recent years, pointing out that Westerners know almost nothing about cultures and religions such as India and China, and at the same time teach people in other countries what to do. It is absurd and illogical that our culture has existed much earlier than Western civilization.

He suggested that Europeans should learn from the reform spirit of the East Asian people and not be complacent about the status quo; they should also learn from the optimism of the Chinese.Lampton, a famous American scholar, also pointed out that the United States should learn from and adopt China's policy of emphasizing science and technology, education, family, and savings, and cultivate more foreign language talents.As the only superpower in the world, the United States also needs to learn from a developing China, which is meaningful. Although the above progress has created favorable conditions for countries to accept the concept of a harmonious world and China's path of peaceful development, it is still quite difficult for the oriental concept of harmony to be recognized by the international community dominated by Western thinking.For this reason, the idea of ​​a harmonious world must be further enriched and developed to form a complete theory.It is even more necessary to formulate foreign strategies and policies for China's peaceful rise and implement specific measures under the guidance of the concept of a harmonious world.What needs to be emphasized here is that it is not enough to merely put forward ideas, ideas and principles, and must be institutionalized, that is, to establish corresponding mechanisms, systems and legal systems, in order to implement new ideas.This requires China to pay more attention to the promotion of cultural institutionalization in its foreign strategy.China must not only take into account the original international mechanisms, systems and legal systems, absorb their strengths, but also use its own unique cultural traditions to promote the innovation of international systems.The equality of national sovereignty and the democratization of international relations do not mean absolute egalitarianism in the world.On the contrary, different countries should assume different responsibilities according to their capabilities.Big and powerful countries should provide more public property to the international community, and should also implement the unity of responsibilities, rights, and interests on a fair basis.Knowledge must be combined with power, ideas must go hand in hand with strength, and soft power must be matched with hard power to achieve real results.In this regard, there are many expositions and examples of ancient Chinese wisdom, such as Confucianism and Legalism, which are worth learning from.In terms of system innovation, in addition to hard system regulations, there are also soft constraints. In the construction of cooperation mechanisms in East Asia, consensus has emerged, tolerance of differences, and practices such as making most countries feel comfortable have made great contributions to international system innovation. Contributions should also be explored and developed in depth.Institutional innovation is closely related to the choice of timing, decolonization is related to the victory of the Second World War, and the emergence of non-traditional security threats is marked by the "September 11 Incident".Therefore, China should be actively prepared to promote system construction when the time is right and at the critical point of some major events.