Open Letter to President Xi Jinping on the Climate Crisis
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چکیده
Although climate models predict that global heating will prove more devastating for China than many other countries, and economic have shown a transition to low-carbon economy would strengthen in the long run, Chinese leadership has failed reduce fossil fuel consumption enough avoid extremes of weather are country. Not after becoming president, Xi Jinping announced project ground “socialism with characteristics” selected ideas from ancient philosophy culture, promoting agenda through quotations his speeches classics, especially Confucian Daoist thought. These turn out be perfectly suited ‘reframing’ worldviews is required thinking productively about crisis developing political measures dealing it effectively. However, live up its inspiring words, instead reverted aggressive repressive policies line Legalism Stalinism Confucian, Daoist, Marxist advocated. This dealt severe blow China’s standing world caused huge loss ‘soft power’ accumulated by previous regimes. With United States shambles, way open follow on promotion traditional take lead, sake long-term well-being own people, tackling crisis—and thereby gain greatest soft power triumph history.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Asian Studies
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2232-5131', '2350-4226']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2023.11.2.233-243