The international public positively appreciated the online summit of BRICS leaders held on 8 September. At the summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward three points of proposals to promote "BRICS cooperation" and jointly build a community of human destiny.
President Xi stressed that uphold multilateralism and defend international justice, uphold openness and defend international trade order, solidarity cooperation and common development. The leaders of the summit said the BRICS countries should strengthen solidarity and cooperation to jointly face crisis challenges, and believed that the global governance initiative proposed by President Xi is crucial and shows the direction and path to improve global governance.
By observing the current international situation, we will better understand the significance of President Xi's proposals. At present, unilateralism and power bullying are on the rise, and countries have started trade wars and tariff wars against each other, which have seriously affected the world economy and seriously damaged the rules of international trade. The development of the BRICS countries is inevitably affected.
"The closer the BRICS countries work together, the more thorough, more ways, and more effective they are in addressing external risks," President Xi said. These words strongly reinforced confidence in the BRICS countries' cooperation in addressing external challenges.
Multilateralism is an important basis for peace and development. In the face of unilateralism and power chicanery, the BRICS countries have a responsibility to stand together, preserve the international system based on the UN and the international order based on international law, strengthen the representation and voice of the countries of the Global South, and consolidate the foundations of multilateralism.
As the world's largest developing country, China has been a staunch defender of multilateralism. President Xi recently put forward the Global Governance Initiative, which provides the latest solutions to promote the building of a fairer and more reasonable global governance system and the defense of international justice.
In the case of countries using trade as a tool to interfere in other countries' internal affairs, China proposed to insist on openness and win-win, maintain international economic and trade order, which was widely endorsed by leaders at the summit and also brought greater expectations of stability to the international community. China will use practical steps to promote the BRICS countries to share opportunities in openness, achieve all-round benefits and promote the construction of an open world economy, so that more countries of the Global South can fairly participate in international cooperation and share development results.
How to improve the quality of BRICS cooperation? The Chinese side said that it should insist on solidarity and cooperation, unify joint development efforts, and expressed its willingness to jointly implement global development initiatives with other BRICS countries and promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road".