Community with Shared Future

The international situation is changing and the evolution of a multipolar, polycentric, pluralist international system continues. China has put forward the concept of a “Community with Shared Values”. Russia shares an interest in promoting a new international order. India with its traditional interest in non-alignment also shares an interest in promoting a new international order.

Clifford A Kiracofe, “The Centenary CPC and Community with Shared Future”, China Focus, August 18, 2021

Clifford A Kiracofe, “Xi’s CPC Centenary Speech Offers Good Relations, China Fcus, July 7, 2021

Koh King Kee, “A New World Order with a Shared Future”, China Daily, February 6, 2021

Koh KIng Kee, “A Community with Shared Future — China’s Vision of the New Global Order”, China Focus, January 27, 2021

Suggested Sources:

Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development 4 February 2022 Link

Xi Jinping, Working Together to Build a Community of Shared Future for Humankind, Speech at the United Nations Office at Geneva, January 18, 2017  Link

Scholarly Articles:

Zeng Lingliang, “Conceptual Analysis of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Road Towards a Regional Community of Common Destiny”', Chinese Journal of International Law, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2016, Pages 517-541. Link

Liu Hong & Zhang Yuxuan, “Building a community of shared future for humankind — an ethnological perspective”, International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 2, Article number: 7 (2018) Link

Ukraine Situation

The situation in Ukraine has complex roots in World War I and before. Here are some materials that provide some background and context. The Kremlin website carries speeches by President Putin. The Russian military advance will determine future boundary as Ukraine will be partitioned if Russia is successful. It seems likely that the Russian objective is to recover historic “Novorossiya” which was conquered by Catherine the Great in the 18th century. Lenin gave Novorossiya to Ukraine in 1922.

Novorossiya wiki

Ruthenia History of Wiki

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Wiki

Ellen Churchill Semple, Texts of the Ukraine “Peace”, (Washington, DC: Department of State, GPO, 1918)

John W Wheeler-Bennett, Brest-Litovsk The Forgotten Peace 1918 (London: Macmillan, 1938)

“Eugenics and racial anthropology in the Ukrainian radical nationalist tradition”, Cambridge University Press, 24 May 2019

Russian Perspective:

Putin Article “On Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” 12 July 2021

Putin Address on Ukraine February 2022 Wiki

Dr. Clifford A Kiracofe

“US Wrong to Confront Russia Over Ukraine” Global Times, February 16, 2014

“Ukraine Act in US Poses Further Provocation to Delicate Relationship” Global Times January 6, 2015

“US Caused Crisis Threatens European Peace” Global Times, March 4, 2015

“The Russia Ukraine crisis and History Lessons” China Focus 2022-03-01

“A Greek Tragedy in Ukraine” China Focus 2202-03-15

“The Ukraine Crisis and NATO’s Risky
Signal to Asia Pacific Security” China Focus 2022-05-16

“The Ukraine War Destabilizes Europe” China Focus 2022-05-24

“Pipeline Sabotage and Europe’s Future” China Focus 2022-10-10

“The World Crisis, Pipelines, and a Bridge Too Far” China Focus 2022-10-18

Afghan Situation

Vanessa Beeley, , Interview with Lucy Morgan Edwards, “Afghanistan in turmoil, the role of MI6 and CIA past and present” podcast at Wall Will Fall

Alastair Crooke, “A Strategic Apocalypse in Afghanistan: A Seismic Shift, Years in the Making, Strategic Culture. August 23, 2021

Marco Carnelos, “The Great Game in central Asia is over - and America lost”, Middle East Eye 24 August 2021

M. K. Bhadrakumar, “India Reaches Out to Russia to break out of regional isolation over Afghanistan”, Indian Punchline August 27 2021