Today and tomorrow, China’s Tianjin city will host the leaders and senior officials of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. According to forecasts, more than 20 countries and at least 10 international institutions and organizations will participate in the summit, and we will see the largest meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization since its establishment in 2001.
Reasons for the Importance of Summit 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The current meeting of the leaders and senior officials of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is considered important in several ways; In the first place, the summit is held at a time when political chaos and conflicts in the world have reached their highest level after the Cold War. The durable war between Russia and Ukraine and the continuation of tension in Russia -Western relations, the unstable situation of the Middle East, and in particular the Gaza war and the catastrophic actions of Israel in the region, intensify the tensions between Iran and the Zionist regime, and of course the challenge of nuclear negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the West. They are all part of these chaos.
Secondly, the meeting with Trump’s actions and actions at the White House can also be considered important. Trump has created strange chaos in the international system in less than a year since his return to the White House; Adopting tariff policies towards different countries around the world, whether allies or non -allies, vague and sometimes contradictory approaches to international crises and conflicts, weakening international institutions, and ultimately removing the United States from some of these international institutions and treaties. The adoption of such approaches and actions by Trump has led to more attention to international and regional meetings in which the United States do not participate, such as the recent Shanghai meeting.
But perhaps most importantly, it is the attention to China’s increasing role in international interactions. China has experienced significant and almost constant growth over the past few decades, and it has been referred to as a power and, in fact, the emerging superpower. At the same time, there have been forecasts that will soon and perhaps less than a decade in the next decade, challenge the American hegemony in the world and play the role of the world’s only superpower. Coinciding with this kind of look at China’s future with Beijing’s magnificent hosting of the current meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has led to a new platform for analysis.
Reasons and causes of China’s peak in the last decade
China’s rise as an emerging political and economic power in the world has undoubtedly not occurred at once and has been the result of its long -term internal and external policies and practices in recent years. Accordingly, the factors of China’s progress and peak can be defined in two groups of policies and actions;
A) China’s approaches to public policy: The key to China’s ongoing progress must be sought in some stable internal policies. The superiority of economic development and the regulation of all policies in the domestic and foreign spheres on this basis can be considered the main foundation of China’s progress. On the basis of such an approach, achieving domestic development goals topped policy -making priorities. All other issues, as long as they do not endanger the territorial integrity and integrity of the country, must be re -defined. At the same time, even in the field of preserving independence and territorial integrity, civilian and dialogue -based solutions were prioritized. In fact, it must be avoided from any path that could have been a barrier to economic development.
At the same time, all policies rely on a realistic approach; That there must be a compatibility between the country’s policies and its real capacities at home and abroad. Accordingly, in the international arena, it was understood that in the context of the inequality of power, especially in the face of great powers such as America, the reality of this inequality must be accepted, and until it becomes a level of power, it was intertwined with the existing international order and behaved within its framework. China’s unwillingness to public confrontation with the United States can be justified in the same context in the form of direct confrontation or participation in anti -American organizations and coalitions. Thus, despite the dissatisfaction with the existing order, political ambitions must be abandoned and viewed merely as a perspective that prevents any disruption to the country’s development process.
In the field of economics, it was more or less realistic. That the government was bound to integrate into the global economy, thereby adding to its material capability and the power of internal governance. Instead of supporting economic companies against international competitors, they had to enter into a close and intense competition, a competition that could even end at the expense of the collapse and failure of Chinese companies and investors. But instead of surviving in this competitive environment, it meant guaranteeing the future of these companies and China’s ultimate growth in the international economy.
B) China’s advantages internationally: But perhaps what helped the Chinese most contributed to the international arena has been considerations and approaches related to the international arena, especially their foreign policy. There are a few specific cases in this case;
1- China’s geographical and demographic capacities: It should not be forgotten that China’s position as the most populous country in the world (albeit before India) and its geographical conditions as one of the largest countries in the world has had a significant impact on its position in the international arena.
2. Foreign policy based on tolerance and slow and continuous mobility: China, despite dissatisfaction with existing order, numerous territorial and border disputes with neighbors, and competitors’ comprehensive efforts to stop economic progress by creating various tensions; It was able to continue its growing international trend, largely due to the peace and approach based on the slow, but constantly in the international system.
3. Acceptance of International Passionation: Unlike US-led liberal order, which emphasizes the need for the world to follow a single political, economic and even cultural model, It seems that the Chinese do not seek their values and systems and believe in the cultural differences in the international arena. Accordingly, they have so far avoided interfering with the internal affairs of the countries and the internal policy for them.
4. Conventional support for peace and avoidance of war: In the absence of an emerging international power so far, it has been realized through military and mainly in the shadow of a major war, China has developed this rule through peaceful approaches based on the avoidance of war. China’s approach is actually reminiscent of the famous speech of the prominent political analyst, AH Work, who says: “Any country that wants to achieve its political goals without war must defend peace.”
5. China’s lack of insistence on imposing its hegemony on others: Unlike major international powers such as the US, China has not only shown insistence on imposing its hegemony, but has even avoided introducing a pattern or normative order of the present order. In his speech to the United Nations, the Chinese president explicitly emphasizes that China will never seek the spread of hegemony and its area of influence.
6. Global Southern Trust: China has been trying to show itself in the category of southern world and along with them. Even in recent years, when China has appeared as an emerging economic superpower, it has still insisted on maintaining its bond with the southern world. This position has been very effective in attracting the favorable attention of developing countries towards China. At the same time, Beijing’s remarkable aid to developing countries, especially in the continent of Africa, has shown the country as a responsible and committed actor and has added to his popularity.
7. Introduction through advances in the fields of technology and technology: It may not be necessary to remember how much the presence of Chinese technologies and technologies around the world and international needs in these areas has been able to influence the representation of China’s power in the international arena.
8. Providing Economic and Political Initiations: This sector is probably the most important advantage of Chinese in the field of foreign policy. The Chinese has created a major revolution in the economic solidarity of the countries around the country, while also having the capacity to influence the global economy. At the same time, in the political arena, the country unveiled three world -relevant world -relevant projects in the United Nations in 2021; Global Development Initiative (GDI), Global Security Initiative (GSI) and Global Civilization Initiative (GCI). All three groups of these initiatives emphasized the strengthening of international institutions and collective cooperation, representing China’s responsibility as a leader and leader.
C) Political developments in the United States: There is no doubt that the rise of China’s position and activity in recent years has been directly related to US political decline on the international scene. In this regard, Beijing had long realized that international order tends to become multiplication. Although this process was a rehabilitation of power and in the interests of the Chinese and indicated the improvement of world order, they did not rush to establish it. The 70 -year -old US hegemony had still maintained the essential elements of power such as dominant ideology, military superiority, powerful economy, and ultimately superior political power. Meanwhile, Trump’s efficiency in the US and his first American policy disrupted some of these equations. Trump has challenged the dominant ideology in the Western world, shakes the foundations of the world’s economic system, and put the international political system and American allies in uncertainty. All of these measures have given China more space to fill many of the vacuums in the US leadership. Stopping US aid to the World Health Organization and Beijing’s $ 500 million aid to the international institution, which makes it a former US position as the largest international aid to the institution, is a prominent example of these developments. At the World Health Assembly, the Chinese deputy prime minister described the assistance to counter unilateralism. The Chinese have been given a good opportunity to fill the gaps from Trump’s actions internationally. This will be aimed at enhancing China’s creeping power and influence in the global leadership, with the Western world and close US allies appear in the case of confused and uncertain observers.
Why can Shanghai be the starting point for developments?
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional cooperation organization founded by the Chinese. The organization was founded on the basis of the expansion of cooperation and coordination among the countries of the region and, based on a specific Chinese policy, had no building to confront the United States or the international order of the world. At the moment, it does not seem to have the Chinese to put the organization in public with the US and the Western world. But now, compared to the past, there is a difference in conditions. The organization can exhibit and strengthen China’s leadership capacity without any apparent confrontation and purely in order to fill the vacuum of the United States in the international arena. The Beijing approach is also step by step based on the expansion of the peripheral environment to the farther places.
Beijing first wants to show neighbors and countries in the region that he will be a responsible leader and a supporter of peace and stability in the world. Attempts to solve the challenges with India and the Prime Minister Modi’s confidence in the Shanghai summit are precisely in this regard. In the second place, holding more magnificent and inviting leaders of 20 countries and 10 international institutions and the UN Secretary -General will emphasize the sense of China’s more pervasive responsibility in the global arena. China’s positive performance in Shanghai will also provide the context of its more active role in transnational organizations such as Brix. Finally, the gradual replacement of China’s conflict with the United States or at least providing the platform for a multiplication system in which the US hegemony is digested can be considered the ultimate goal of these meetings and developments.
Source: Educators
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