Xi’s Message of Peace:
Competition among major countries is not the theme of this era and does not solve the problems faced by China, the U.S., and the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden.
Planet Earth is big enough for both China and the U.S. to succeed, Xi said, adding that one country’s success is an opportunity for the other.
Xi said he looks forward to an in-depth exchange of views with President Biden on major strategic, overall and directional issues related to China-U.S relations and world peace and development, and reaching a new consensus.
All Marxists should analyze and understand what this paragraph means, especially the part I placed in bold:
China is promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through Chinese modernization. It will not take the old path of colonization and plundering, or the wrong path of seeking hegemony with growing strength. It does not export its ideology, or engage in ideological confrontation with any country. China does not have a plan to surpass or unseat the United States. Likewise, the United States should not scheme to suppress and contain China.
I think this means that there is no universal socialism button that can be pushed by any single country alone that will magically solve the problem of transitioning from capitalism to socialism. Marxists in every country must not wait for handouts, because theory is free but practice requires hard work and sacrifice.
Radicalized proletariet have the duty to persue socialism from the ground up, not from above to below.
Exactly this. If the impetus doesn’t come from within, the change won’t last. Imposing change on another group will only ever make temporary change.
That has always been China’s position regarding exporting ideology. They’ve generally been of the mind that every state needs to come to their own revolution. It’s a reason they are always so explicit about “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”.
While part of me does selfishly wish there were states a bit more proactive about facilitating socialism, the position makes absolute sense. If we look at the AES states today, none of them have exactly the same structures in place. I don’t think Chinese socialism would work in Cuba, or Cuban socialism in Vietnam.
I organise as well as I am able to help bring about “socialism with Japanese characteristics”, and hopefully we get there someday. I believe all states will, if not necessarily in our own lifetimes.
President Xi being extremely eloquent and mature, it is always great to see somebody with a firm grasp of politics and international relations making statements.
On the other hand, Biden literally calls him a dictator the second his back is turned.
I hope there are people who take President Xi’s words to heart in the US government, because the leadership sure as hell isn’t.
What Biden meant was dictatorship of proletariat. Thank you comrade joe.
i think people who would take Xi’s words to heart would be weeded out fairly early on in their short political careers… long before they had any power to effect any changes
I found this statement particularly poignant, and I genuinely hope it advice is heeded.
President Xi Jinping noted that there are two options for China and the United States in the era of global transformations unseen in a century: One is to enhance solidarity and cooperation and join hands to meet global challenges and promote global security and prosperity; and the other is to cling to the zero-sum mentality, provoke rivalry and confrontation, and drive the world toward turmoil and division. The two choices point to two different directions that will decide the future of humanity and Planet Earth. The China-U.S. relationship, which is the most important bilateral relationship in the world, should be perceived and envisioned in this broad context. For China and the United States, turning their back on each other is not an option. It is unrealistic for one side to remodel the other. And conflict and confrontation has unbearable consequences for both sides. Major-country competition cannot solve the problems facing China and the United States or the world. The world is big enough to accommodate both countries, and one country’s success is an opportunity for the other.
