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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
JOHANNESBURG, November 13 (Xinhua) — Global leadership has been in turmoil for decades, as leading countries have failed to effectively respond to mounting crises and global chaos, according to a report released Thursday by the Xinhua Think Tank.
According to the report, titled "Collaborating to Create a New Global Leadership: Collective Action to Transition to a Fairer and Smarter System of Global Governance," the stability of the international order depends on the institutional authority and moral legitimacy of leading powers. It notes that one of the fundamental principles of the contemporary international order is that major countries should play a leading role.
To achieve this goal, the authors emphasize, large countries should possess the “virtue of compromise” and the “spirit of generosity” and, as British political scientist Hedley Bull put it, “meet demands for certain just changes in the world.”
However, at a time when the world is beset by multiple crises and most needs leadership from responsible large countries, we instead see great powers failing to live up to their responsibilities and violating existing norms, the report says.
As the authors point out, from the UN system to the Bretton Woods institutions, the United States played a leading role in shaping the international order after World War II. But amid the rise of various "isms"—populism, conservatism, racism, and exclusivism—the United States is now "abandoning the very world it created" and continues to unleash destructive forces.
The report argues that the rapid rise of the "America First" concept and the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement is rooted in deep political and economic divisions within the United States itself.
At the same time, the authors add, from a political-economic point of view, the deficit in global leadership is the result of the impact on the modern world of two layers of double tension – the tension between the surge of modern crises and the reduction of governance capabilities and the tension between the economic base of the world and its political superstructure.
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