People-Centered Development in Action: "Investing in the People"

 China, as mentioned, has a very long, deep philosophical tradition related to the proper way to organize and govern society that was eventually wedded to Marxian philosophy and become an ongoing project in the making, which is now reflected by Xi Jinping Thought about which several volumes have been published. Its primary tenets are visible in the six Global Initiatives Xi has proposed over his tenure but is best reflected by the goal of China’s BRI—A Shared Future for Mankind—which implies a mutually beneficial relationship free from strife and thus free from hegemony. This goal is clearly anti-thetical to the remaining major hegemon, so it fights against it without realizing what it’s saying by its actions: People’s well-being doesn’t matter to it whatsoever, which is precisely what we see in its behavior even to its own citizenry.

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Gym readers ought to see the many similarities in policy design between Russia and China, which makes sense given their very close cooperation and mutual goals. The vast differences in policy direction compared to the Collective West IMO are quite stark—I don’t think I need to itemize what those are. There’s a very important sentence missing from the vocabulary of Western governments: This is how we intend to improve the wellbeing of our citizenry.