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Published: April 24,2023
By Staff writer
Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Global Security Initiative, in April 2022, which is a concept that overlays China’s security and defense cooperation with the Global South. Western analysts have argued that the GSI will challenge the U.S.-led security alliance, erode values in existing security partnerships, and institutionalize security arrangements in regional organizations.
China affirms that the GSI aims to eliminate the root causes of international conflicts, improve global security governance, encourage joint international efforts to bring more stability and certainty to a volatile and changing era, and promote durable peace and development in the world.
President Xi Jinping proposed the Global Security Initiative (GSI), as an avenue to uphold the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, pursues the long-term objective of building a security community, and advocates a new path to security featuring dialogue over confrontation, partnership over alliance and win-win over zero-sum. The GSI promotes the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, and has been embraced by more than 80 countries and regional organizations.
The reasons for the west to oppose the GSI are clear. First of all being proposed by China US sees it as an organized coup that is intended to end its hegemony and unilateral use of force at will disregarding international law and order. The US and its NATO allies in Europe have never seen China and Russia as allies in the global Security System, but always treated as number one enemies. Without change of this mindset it is very difficult to see the US working with other countries to implement GSI.
When you look at the US foreign policy, it is a country that is always at war. Since 1776, the U.S. has been at peace for just one out of every 20 years. In short, war is good for business for the US justifying why it is always fighting. In 2003, former US President George W. Bush said the Iraq War was about weapons of mass destruction and this was a big lie and deception. It was about Iraq resources- oil.
Similarly, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who waskilled on Oct. 20, 2011, because advocated for a united Africa with a common currency, freeing the continent from the dollar standard. Gaddafi also longed to protect Africa’s natural resources from what he referred to as Western “looters.” His aspirations were against western profiteering from Africa, and this prompted his assassination and the destruction of Libya.
Since 1950s, the ties between US military and the industry (military-Industrial Complex) for the production and sale of weapons has been a source of instability globally where the US looks at war as a means to sale arms and make super normal profits. This is one good evil for the US that cannot be easily abandoned to
Join the rest of the world to eliminate the root causes of international conflicts, improve global security governance and encourage joint international efforts to promote durable peace and development in the world.
The west therefore, does not look at GSI as a cooperation framework to promote the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, but a means of stopping its gains from the military- industrial complex and proxy wars meant to weaken economies of perceived enemies in order to maintain the status quo of global dominance both militarily and economically.
