From Global Village to Harmony of Nations (I): Transcending the Security Dilemma and Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind — An Ultimate Strategic Analysis of Global Public Security

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    Standing at the highest dimension of humanity's survival and development, the Earth's eternal sustainability, and the evolution of civilization, transcending the interests of national blocs, regional limitations, and short-term utility, taking the community with a shared future for mankind as the fundamental principle, and world harmony and universal brotherhood as the ultimate goal, upholding the Chinese classical wisdom of a world shared by all, harmony among all nations, and peace as the paramount value, this analysis conducts a full-dimensional factual assessment, root-cause analysis, scientific problem-solving, and systematic governance of the current global public security situation, and issues a call to the world to promote peaceful and stable development and to jointly build and share a beautiful Earth home.

    I. The Predicament of All Nations: Systemic Imbalance in Global Public Security, with the Baseline for Humanity's Survival and Development Under Sustained Pressure

    The current international public security situation is severe and complex, with traditional security threats and non-traditional security risks intertwining and spreading. Hegemonic acts, wars and conflicts, the tearing apart of rich and poor, and ecological disorder compound one another, causing development to be interrupted in a large number of sovereign states, hundreds of millions of people to be displaced and left without a livelihood, and human civilization as a whole to face a severe test of survival and development.

    (I) Rampant War and Hegemony, with the Traditional Security Landscape Continuing to Deteriorate

    The scale and intensity of global conflict are at their highest level since World War II: in 2025, there were 59 active armed conflicts worldwide, spanning key regions including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Direct conflict-related deaths exceeded 240,000 for the year, with civilian casualties accounting for more than 70%, and the elderly, women, and children being the most directly affected groups.

    U.S. hegemonic interference and proxy wars are the primary source of global instability: over the past three decades, the United States has launched and intervened in numerous local wars, including those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya, directly causing millions of civilian deaths and displacing tens of millions of people. Through military alliances, color revolutions, unilateral sanctions, and proxy wars, it has arbitrarily interfered in other countries' internal affairs, overthrown legitimate regimes, and created regional division and confrontation, making it the main driver of the current global security disorder and frequent wars.

    The risk of nuclear weapons looms large, and human civilization faces the threat of destruction: nine nuclear-armed countries around the world hold approximately 12,000 nuclear warheads, with the United States and Russia accounting for more than 90% of the total. About 2,000 of these are on high alert status and can be launched quickly. The United States continues to strengthen nuclear deterrence, withdraw from multiple arms control treaties, and allow nuclear proliferation risks to spill over, while the probability of strategic miscalculation keeps rising. Should a nuclear conflict occur, human civilization would suffer a devastating blow.

    Unprecedented humanitarian disaster, with the basic right to survival of ordinary people hard to guarantee: the total number of displaced people worldwide has exceeded 117 million, meaning 1 in every 68 people has been forced to flee. In war-affected areas, food, water, medical, and education systems have completely collapsed. Large numbers of civilians are homeless and lack food and medicine, and the basic bottom line of survival is repeatedly breached.

    (II) Ecological and Climate Red Lines Breached, with the Stability of Our Planetary Home on the Brink of Collapse

    Global warming has breached the warning threshold, and extreme disasters have become the norm: in 2024, the global average temperature was 1.54°C above pre-industrial levels, and the probability of continuously exceeding this threshold during 2025–2029 is as high as 86%. Extreme weather events such as heatwaves, floods, droughts, and hurricanes occur frequently, causing systemic shocks to agricultural production, infrastructure, and people's livelihoods. Developed economies such as the United States and the European Union account for more than 70% of historical cumulative carbon emissions and are the main parties responsible for the climate crisis, yet they repeatedly shirk their responsibilities on emission reduction and financial support.

    Biodiversity loss is accelerating and ecosystems continue to degrade: nearly one million species worldwide face the risk of extinction, and key ecological tipping points such as coral reefs, polar ice sheets, and tropical rainforests are being successively triggered; desertification, marine pollution, and water scarcity affect more than 4 billion people, and over the past decade climate-related displacement has exceeded 300 million, with the number of ecological refugees now surpassing that of war refugees.

    (3) The distribution system is severely fractured, and crises of survival and development reinforce one another

    The food security situation is grave, with sanctions and conflict exacerbating the spread of famine: in 2024 the number of hungry people worldwide reached 673 million, and 318 million people were in crisis-level food insecurity. The United States and some Western countries frequently use food, energy, and fertilizer as tools of geopolitical leverage, imposing unilateral sanctions and disrupting global supply chains, directly worsening famine and instability in impoverished regions.

    The polarization between rich and poor is shocking, and injustice has become a source of unrest: the richest 1% of the global population holds 45% of social wealth, while the bottom 50% holds only 2%; wealth concentration within the United States is likewise extremely high, with the richest 10% holding more than 70% of the nation's wealth. Hunger rates in the least developed countries, such as those in Africa, exceed 20%, and the North-South development gap continues to solidify, becoming a deep-seated breeding ground for regional insecurity and instability.

    Investment in armaments and in people's livelihoods is severely misaligned, and resource allocation is inverted: global annual military spending exceeds 2.2 trillion US dollars, with the United States alone accounting for nearly 40%, far exceeding the combined total of global humanitarian aid, food assistance, and public health investment. Massive resources are used to manufacture confrontation and war rather than to protect life and improve livelihoods, and the humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.

    (4) Non-traditional security risks are spreading, and transnational threats are difficult to prevent and control

    Digital security has been reduced to a tool of hegemony, and information manipulation is causing growing harm: risks such as deepfakes, cyberattacks, and inflammatory rhetoric have risen 400% in five years. The United States, relying on its technological hegemony, conducts global surveillance, interferes in other countries' internal affairs, and sows social division, becoming the greatest destabilizing factor in cyberspace.

    Biological and public health systems are fragile, and joint prevention and control mechanisms are failing: the threshold for key technologies such as gene editing has dropped sharply, with the cost of related tools falling below 1,000 US dollars, significantly raising biosafety risks; in the face of emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, some countries pursue unilateralism, hoard vaccines, and shirk responsibility, making it difficult for global joint prevention and control mechanisms to operate effectively.

    II. Root-cause analysis: hegemony is the root of the trouble, war is the chief culprit, and the old order is the source of the affliction

    The world is uneasy; the disorder lies in war, its root in hegemony, and its failure in the order. The current global public security crisis did not arise naturally; it is the inevitable result of the combined failure of human policies, hegemonic logic, and governance systems.

    (1) US unipolar hegemony and power politics are the greatest obstacle to world peace and development

    The United States pursues its own absolute security and primacy, building its security on the insecurity and suffering of other countries and placing its own interests above the common interests of humanity, seriously violating the basic moral principles of serving the common good and sovereign equality; it vigorously promotes military alliances and bloc confrontation, imposes unilateral sanctions, long-arm jurisdiction, and hegemonic bullying, willfully infringing on other countries' sovereignty and undermining regional stability; it has long placed its faith in force and pursued war, seeking gain through confrontation and defending hegemony with hegemony, making it the ultimate source of global security risks.

    (2) The logic of war and the supremacy of force has thoroughly eroded the foundations of peace

    Some countries cling to the law of the jungle — the strong preying on the weak — and readily resort or threaten to resort to force, gravely betraying the natural law of human survival and civilizational development and seriously violating the purposes of the UN Charter. Proxy wars, arms races, and sanctions and blockades have become routine, creating a vicious cycle of "war — poverty — turmoil — more war." Livelihoods are ruined, homes are destroyed, development is interrupted, and the basic security of small and weak nations is not guaranteed.

    (3) The global governance system is manipulated by hegemony, making fairness and justice difficult to uphold

    The existing global governance mechanisms have long been dominated by the United States and a small number of Western countries, presenting a situation in which major powers hold a monopoly, small countries are silenced, and the rules are unfair. In multiple major humanitarian crises from 2023 to 2025, the failure rate of resolutions by core governance mechanisms was as high as 76 percent, making it difficult to effectively stop wars, restrain hegemony, and assist affected populations. Double standards prevail in international rule-making, the supply of global public goods is severely insufficient, and governance effectiveness is gravely disconnected from real needs.

    (4) The unipolar order hinders the evolution toward an orderly configuration, making lasting world peace difficult to achieve

    The current international configuration remains in an unreasonable unipolar state. The United States is doing its utmost to preserve its hegemonic position, deliberately obstructing the world's advance toward a multipolar balance and fair co-governance, and even more so refusing to move toward a nonpolar symbiotic order grounded in the common good and free of bias — becoming a fundamental obstacle to an equitable, reasonable, and lasting peaceful international order.

    III. Civilizational Awakening: Three Upgrades in Understanding from Hegemonic Rivalry to Symbiosis among All Nations

    To resolve the global security predicament, we must transcend the nation-centered, hegemony-centered, and Cold War mindsets, and achieve a revolution in civilizational understanding from the height of all humanity's common interests.

    (1) Awakening to the unity of the world: Humanity shares a common origin, and the Earth is our only shared home

    Upholding the vision that "all within the four seas are brothers and all under heaven are one family," humanity admits no distinction of superior and inferior, and nations admit no difference of great and small, strong and weak — all are equal before our shared home, the Earth. Any war, hegemony, or divisive act ultimately undermines the very foundation of humanity's collective survival.

    (2) Awakening to the indivisibility of security: Security cannot be divided; a Local crisis is a global risk

    War and conflict, climate disasters, food crises, epidemic spread, and nuclear weapons risks are characterized by global coupling and cross-border transmission. The Russia-Ukraine conflict directly affects the food security of 340 million people in Africa, while unilateral sanctions and financial policies disrupt the global economy. No country can remain unaffected, and common security is the only viable path to security.

    (3) Awakening to the ethics of the great way: Replace hegemony with virtuous rule, unipolarity with multipolarity, and achieve great harmony through nonpolarity

    Abandon zero-sum rivalry, hegemonic bullying, and the law of the jungle, and return to the civilizational path of the common good, harmony in diversity, and the cessation of arms and war; promote the international order's evolution from unipolar hegemony to multipolar balance and ultimately toward a world of great harmony featuring nonpolar symbiosis and the co-governance of all nations, so as to achieve humanity's overall sustainable development.

    IV. Strategies for Ordering the World: Stop Wars, Oppose Hegemony, Build Multipolarity, Move Toward Nonpolarity, and Construct a New System of Common Security for Humanity

    Guided by the overarching principle of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind and aimed at universal harmony, we uphold scientific rigor, feasibility, and practicality, clarify the responsibilities of the UN, major powers, and all parties, and advance in a phased, pragmatic manner with a focus on tangible results.

    (1) Core Overarching Principles

    The world belongs to all: the collective interests of humanity take precedence over the self-interest of any one country;

    Peace over war: resolve international disputes through peaceful means and oppose the arbitrary use of force;

    Counter-hegemony and stability maintenance: oppose unipolar hegemony, military alliances, and bloc confrontation;

    A multipolar and orderly world: steadily advance multipolar balance and ultimately move toward a shared world of no poles but symbiosis and coordination;

    Extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits: global affairs should be collectively deliberated, jointly participated in, and shared by all countries.

    (2) Five Practical Pillars of Action

    Pillar I: Urgently halt war and save lives, safeguard the bottom line of livelihood security (1–3 years)

    Goal: Promote de-escalation of conflicts, protect the safety of civilians, expand humanitarian relief, and alleviate the displacement crisis

    United Nations:

    (1) Convene a special global peace summit to facilitate phased ceasefire consensus among conflicting parties, with monitoring and implementation authorized by the Security Council;

    (2) Establish a global humanitarian relief coordination platform to uniformly coordinate supplies, transport capacity, and personnel deployment, and designate civilian safe zones and livelihood protection facilities;

    (3) Facilitate the opening of stable humanitarian corridors in controllable conflict areas to ensure unimpeded passage for relief supplies, medical personnel, and civilian evacuation;

    (4) Initiate international investigation and accountability procedures for deliberate attacks on civilians or civilian facilities and obstruction of humanitarian relief.

    United States:

    (1) Immediately cease inciting proxy wars and color revolutions, cancel illegal unilateral sanctions, and remove man-made disruptions to global supply chains for food, energy, fertilizer, and medicine;

    (2) Stop supplying offensive weapons to conflict regions, abandon the policy of military intervention, and create conditions for a political resolution of hotspot issues;

    (3) Increase investment in humanitarian assistance and assume responsibilities commensurate with its international standing to compensate for humanitarian losses caused by war.

    Parties to Conflicts:

    (1) Under the mediation of the United Nations and neutral third parties, achieve conflict de-escalation and ceasefire in phases and by region, and strictly protect civilians, hospitals, schools, water conservancy and power facilities, and other livelihood facilities;

    (2) Ensure the functioning of basic livelihoods, replace military confrontation with negotiation and consultation, and gradually advance the political settlement process.

    China, Russia, Europe, and Other Major Powers:

    (1) Jointly promote peace talks and encourage all parties to return to the negotiating table, balancing legitimate security concerns;

    (2) Increase material humanitarian assistance, collaborate in assisting displaced populations, and help restore basic regional order.

    Pillar II: Control Nuclear Weapons, Disarm, and Counter-Hegemony: Restructuring Global Strategic Stability (1–5 years)

    Goal: Reduce nuclear risks, curb hegemonic expansion, optimize military expenditure structures, and strengthen common security

    United Nations:

    (1) Promote the authority of the UN Charter, improve international rules against hegemony, bloc confrontation, and for the maintenance of sovereign equality;

    (2) Improve global arms control verification and compliance monitoring mechanisms, and exercise full-process oversight over nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction;

    (3) Advocate a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept, and guide all countries to increase input in livelihood and development fields;

    (4) Restrain the military development of countries with a typical resurgence of militarism such as Japan, and resolutely curb and eliminate new sources of world instability.

    United States:

    (1) Abandon unilateral hegemonic thinking, stop military alliance expansion and containment policies, and conform to the historical trend of world multipolarity;

    (2) Restart and deepen arms control dialogue with Russia, achieve gradual, reciprocal and transparent reductions in nuclear arsenals, lower readiness levels, and reduce the risk of strategic miscalculation;

    (3) Reasonably reduce overseas military presence and excessive military spending, and channel more resources into domestic livelihood and international development cooperation.

    Russia:

    (1) Actively participate in building global strategic stability mechanisms, maintain arms control communication and strategic mutual trust, and uphold global strategic balance;

    (2) Persist in resolving security differences through political and diplomatic channels, and promote the building of a balanced, effective and sustainable European and global security architecture.

    China:

    (1) Adhere to non-alignment, non-confrontation and not targeting third parties, and firmly follow the path of peaceful development;

    (2) Actively promote political settlement of hotspot issues and provide fair and pragmatic international public security goods.

    All nuclear states:

    (1) Strictly abide by nuclear non-proliferation obligations and abandon nuclear deterrence provocations and nuclear risky behavior;

    (2) Jointly safeguard the international nuclear non-proliferation regime and resolutely eliminate the risk of nuclear war.

    Third Pillar: Promote equitable development and eliminate the root causes of security instability (1–10 years)

    Objectives: Mitigate food crises, reduce extreme poverty, narrow the North-South gap, and consolidate the foundations for lasting security

    United Nations:

    (1) Promote the implementation of global food security cooperation consensus, and explicitly oppose the weaponization of food, fertilizers, and energy;

    (2) Establish a global development equity monitoring system to regularly assess wealth gaps, development imbalances, and humanitarian needs;

    (3) Monitor developed countries' fulfillment of international commitments on climate finance, technology transfer, and debt relief.

    Developed countries in the US and Europe:

    (1) Earnestly fulfill international development obligations and increase support for agriculture, healthcare, education, and infrastructure in the least developed countries;

    (2) Steadily advance debt restructuring and relief for developing countries without attaching unreasonable political conditions;

    (3) Strictly implement climate emission reduction targets, fully honor climate finance commitments, and support developing countries' green and low-carbon transition.

    Global joint action:

    (1) Improve global food emergency reserves and rapid allocation mechanisms to enhance response capacity in crisis-affected regions;

    (2) Abandon the single-minded GDP-first model and implement sustainable development standards that balance ecological carrying capacity, fairness and inclusiveness, and people's well-being;

    (3) Oppose resource plundering and financial monopolies, and promote the building of a more just and reasonable global economic order.

    Fourth Pillar: Reform global governance and advance multipolar balanced co-governance (1–20 years)

    Objectives: Enhance the authority of the United Nations, balance the responsibilities of major countries, and safeguard the equal development rights of all countries

    United Nations:

    (1) Steadily advance Security Council reform, increase the representation and voice of developing countries, and promote a more equitable, efficient, and inclusive governance system;

    (2) Regulate the exercise of the veto power, and promote more prudent and responsible use of the veto on major issues involving large-scale humanitarian crises and civilian protection;

    (3) Strengthen the core coordinating role of the United Nations in maintaining peace, promoting development, and addressing transnational risks.

    (4) Have the obligation and right to remove states that pursue hegemony, and call on and organize responsible major countries worldwide to concentrate efforts to resist and eliminate the persistent forces of hegemonism, militarism, and imperialism.

    United States:

    (1) Return to the United Nations framework system, abide by international law and universally recognized norms of international relations, and abandon unilateralism and exceptionalism;

    (2) Abandon rule hegemony and double standards, and respect the sovereignty and independence of all countries and their right to independently choose their development paths.

    Shared responsibilities of major countries:

    (1) Uphold extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits; major global affairs should be discussed and decided jointly by multiple parties, with no unilateral decisions or small-circle monopolies;

    (2) Support the building of a multipolar balanced structure and respect the legitimate rights and international status of developing countries;

    (3) Move toward a form of non-polar symbiosis in the long term, achieving a world without hegemony, bullying, centers, or vassals, where all countries are equal and the world is shared by all;

    Fifth Pillar: Strengthen all-domain joint defense and resist non-traditional security risks (1–30 years)

    Climate and ecological security: Global coordinated implementation of temperature control targets, with developed countries bearing historical responsibility and developing countries safeguarding reasonable development space;

    Public health security: Establish global mechanisms for virus monitoring, information sharing, equitable vaccine accessibility, and coordinated emergency response;

    Cyber and digital security: Oppose cyberattacks, public opinion manipulation, and interference in internal affairs, and jointly safeguard an open, secure, and cooperative cyberspace;

    Biosafety: Strengthen global oversight of gene technology and laboratory safety, and strictly prevent the risks of technology misuse, leakage, and proliferation.

    (III) Three-stage implementation pathway

    Short term (1–3 years): Halt the crisis and stabilize the situation

    Promote de-escalation and ceasefire in conflicts, expand humanitarian assistance, urgently manage nuclear risks and food and energy crises, safeguard the bottom line of human survival, and curb further deterioration of the security situation.

    Medium term (5–10 years): Build institutions and address root causes

    Deepen arms control and the process of opposing hegemony, advance global governance reform, narrow development gaps, improve common security rules, and build a stable and orderly multipolar landscape.

    Long term (20–50 years): Great harmony and coexistence

    Fully build a community with a shared future for mankind and realize a world of great harmony free from hegemony, war, hunger, and division, where all nations live in harmony and share a beautiful homeland.

    V. Civilizational Leadership: Empowering Global Peace and Lasting Stability with Chinese Wisdom

    Chinese civilization, with peace, harmony, and great harmony as its core characteristics, provides fundamental values for addressing the global security predicament:

    1. Grounded in the principle that the world belongs to all, transcend narrow self-interest and the private interests of any single country, and uphold the primacy of humanity's common interests;

    2. Act on the principle of harmony in diversity, respect the diversity of civilizations and the sovereign equality of states, replace confrontation with dialogue, and dissolve estrangement through inclusiveness;

    3. Base oneself on harmony, oppose war and hegemony, and safeguard world peace through morality and justice;

    4. Establish order through multipolarity without hegemony, follow the historical trend, and promote the evolution of the international order toward fairness, balance, and symbiosis;

    5. Act with China's sense of responsibility, uphold peaceful development, practice the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, and serve as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order.

    VI. Civilizational Vision: Protect Our Shared Earth and Journey Together Toward a New Era of Great Harmony

    When the great way prevails, the world belongs to all. Hegemony will inevitably decline, wars will inevitably cease, multipolarity will inevitably take shape, a world without hegemony will inevitably be achieved, and great harmony will inevitably arrive.

    In the name of the common well-being of all humanity, we solemnly declare and propose:

          Abandon war and safeguard peace;

          Eliminate hegemony and defend justice;

          Advance multipolarity and achieve a world without hegemony;

          All under heaven are one family; the world is one community.

    We call upon the world: let the great peace-loving people awaken, let the great forces supporting peace rise, and let the sources of turmoil repent and stop! We always look forward to countries around the world setting aside selfish interests, moving toward each other, working together with mutual assistance, jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind, jointly protecting the Earth—our only homeland—and jointly creating a lasting future for humanity that is peaceful, secure, prosperous, just, and inclusive!