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Opinion THURSDAY JUNE 24 2021 7 WANG DAQIAN, LI QINGSI China Steadfast in Committing to Balanced Ecology Chinese Social Sciences Today Opinion THURSDAY JUNE 24 2021 7 WANG DAQIAN, LI QINGSI China steadfast in committing to balanced ecology In his speech delivered at the Lead- (CPC), China has made remarkable, countries, for a long time, hindered ers Summit on Climate on April globally celebrated, achievements in the effects of global environmental 22 this year, Chinese President the environmental governance sec- governance. Therefore, one way for Xi Jinping pointed out that the inter- tor. Especially the proposal of a com- the international community to ad- national community needs to come munity of life for man and nature dress this problem is to improve the up with unprecedented ambition has provided guiding principles for global environmental governance and action. We need to act with a other countries to share experiences system and coordinate differences sense of responsibility and unity, and that China has accumulated. Guided between interests and resource al- work together to foster a community by this concept, each country can location by systematically enhancing of life for man and nature, said Xi. choose the mode that fits their envi- each country’s comprehensive gov- Putting forward the Chinese solu- ronmental governance needs based ernance capabilities, and the other tion to global environmental gover- on their own national conditions. way is to urge developed countries to nance, the concept of a community of The path toward building a com- take developing countries’ rational life for man and nature clearly directs munity of life for man and nature concerns into consideration while a cooperative path for countries to includes the three aspects described accomplishing their own governance tackle environmental challenges and below. goals. In particular, developed coun- build a clean and beautiful world. Unity and cooperation are becom- tries should offer necessary aid and Hay bales on the farmland which will be utilized for resource conservancy and ing inevitable. Since the capabilities guidance to developing countries by Current predicament ecological protection. Photo: Geng Yuhe/CNSphoto of human activity gradually tran- leveraging advantages in capital and Advancing global environmental scend national boundaries, as mod- technology. governance has become an impor- mental governance mechanisms re- ernance cooperation. ern science and technology develop, In addition, global environmental tant premise and common bond for quire developed countries to offer aid The core concept of a community no country can live alone and remain governance mechanisms should countries in realizing sustainable to developing countries by utilizing of life for man and nature is the detached from environmental chal- be made more binding, and gover- development. However, impacted their own advantages. But developed harmonious coexistence of man lenges. In addition, China should nance systems should be directed by multiple factors, the cooperation countries set stern additional terms and nature, which advocates for provide strong guarantees for deep- in a more rational and justifiable process and governance effect has for this aid, and have made aiding the international community to ening international cooperation. In way by deepening the consensus on been limited. mechanisms into tools for profit reexamine and understand relation- September, 2020, Chinese Presi- “common but differentiated respon- Structural contradictions come gaining. ships between man and nature. The dent Xi Jinping announced in the sibility.” The effect of international first, as serious imbalance exists be- Some Western developed coun- concept also embodies rich political, 75th Session of the United Nations treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol tween developed countries and de- tries also brush aside and override economic, meanings and values. In General Assembly that China aims and the Paris Agreement needs also veloping countries regarding shoul- the role of international environmen- conserving their own cultural val- to have CO2 emissions peak before to be made more binding. More- dering responsibility and resource tal protection organizations and trea- ues, countries should respect each 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality over, it is necessary to formulate a allocation. Though advantageous in ties coming with them. Up to now, other’s development modes and so- before 2060. feasible and practical responsibility capital and technology, developed the international community has set cial systems, expanding consensus The next aspect is advancing allocation system to break monopo- countries lack initiative to participate up a series of environmental protec- and lessening disputes in the global global environmental governance ly patterns dominated by developed in global environmental governance, tion organizations and formulated environmental governance process. in a scientific and systematic way. countries in environmental gover- evading their due historical responsi- dozens of treaties and agreements The ultimate goal is to gradually Through advocating for multilater- nance systems. bility while asking developing coun- that are beneficial to the global en- form pluralistic and interactive be- alism, which addresses structural tries to shoulder excessive obliga- vironment. However, the binding havioral standards. imbalances, different governance Wang Daqian and Li Qingsi are tions beyond their own capabilities. effects of organizations and treaties subjects can draw complementary respectively from the School of In- To relieve developing countries’ are disregarded by some developed Paths toward future advantages from each other. The ternational Relations and National dual burdens in economic and envi- countries, which set barriers on the Since the 18th National Congress structural imbalances between de- Academy of Development and Strat- ronmental sectors, global environ- course of global environmental gov- of the Communist Party of China veloped countries and developing egy at Renmin University of China. participate in debates and discus- ZHU CHENG sions of discourse between differ- ent schools of thought from around the world. scholars should focus on Chinese philosophy should examine universal issues the creation and emergence of new thoughts, and respond to common The overseas study of Chinese phi- Chan and Tu Weiming, and other learning, which has no overlapping significance are one of its foci. The issues facing philosophy from a losophy, by definition, is academic overseas Chinese, enter the native with general philosophy; the other logic described here is that the study new perspective. study occurring outside of China Chinese-language world and affect attitude takes Chinese philosophy can be regarded as both discovered In short, when reflecting on which takes Chinese philosophy it, attracting attention from Chinese as a philosophy which is discovered within China and outside of China. the study of overseas Chinese phi- as the research object. The study is academia in philosophy. in China.” When we define a form Since overseas Chinese philoso- losophy, scholars should not just often conducted in such forms as Naming the division of phi- of philosophy by its name, it is es- phy is a special form of both Chi- be content with nationalist senti- translating the classics of Chinese losophy according to the place in sentially the acknowledgement of nese philosophy and general phi- ments arising from the uniqueness philosophy, examining courses which philosophical thought and the universality of this philosophy losophy, it needs to pay attention of Chinese philosophy, nor be in which Chinese philosophers’ philosophical study take place is and the unique form in which the to issues unique to Chinese phi- content with comparative perspec- thoughts develop, and the heritage a common practice in the field universality is displayed in a unique losophy and philosophical issues tives which examine Chinese and of these schools of thought. of the history of philosophy. For region. In this sense, when we say that are of universal significance, foreign philosophy. Instead, start- In recent decades, the study of example, we often refer to philo- “the philosophy of a certain place,” and try to deepen understanding ing from the background of world overseas Chinese philosophy has sophical thought that takes place we actually expound on ways the in- of these issues and resolve them. philosophical development, they become a new branch within the around the world by the following terrelationship between commonal- Given this, overseas study of Chi- should understand China-West field of Chinese philosophy. Aca- names: Greek philosophy, German ity and peculiarity of this philosophy nese philosophy should not merely connectivity and the ways in which demia has paid growing attention philosophy, French philosophy, is demonstrated in this place. linger on the textual translation Chinese philosophy participates to research and works by foreign British and American philosophy, Based on this understanding, if of traditional Chinese philosophy internationally from the perspective scholars in this field, such as Benja- and Chinese philosophy. This place- we take “philosophy” as what car- or the introduction of its thought, of common human destiny. Only in min I. Schwartz, William Theodore based nomenclature makes us think ries commonality, then “Chinese but should blend resources from this way, can overseas Chinese phi- de Bary, Joseph R. Levenson, Roger of the famous inference made by philosophy” is
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