Xiangshan Forum: Dialogue for Forever Peace
The Beijing Xiangshan Forum 2024 with its enormously important theme of “Promoting Peace for a Shared Future” is an extremely timely opportunity to bring the Asia-Pacific and Global Majority community for dialogue and discussion to map the path to continuing world peace, progress and prosperity through common and indivisible security for the regions and the globe.
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With 5000 representatives of official delegations from more that 90 countries and international organization, hundreds of experts and scholars, exchanging analyses and views on how the world can move forward in the global peace agenda, and information from these discussions spreading and reverberating across the world’s traditional and new media, Mankind’s awareness of the pressing imperative for peace action will certainly be enhanced.
The atmosphere of tension and conflict has been rising in regions of the world where the collective West led by the United States of America has been sowing strategic turmoil. It is no secret to the world that the wars raging in the Eastern European and West Asian fronts, in Ukraine and Gaza, are workings of U.S. proxy wars. It is also no secret, especially to us in the Philippines and ASEAN, that the U.S. seeks to spread this strategy of tension to Asia.
The malevolent intentions of the Merchants of War could not be hidden from the global public in the May 30 to June 4 convening of the Singapore Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual event sponsored by the London based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISI), that has been described by many independent experts as a platform to stir issues that create tension and conflict in Asia as well as bash China.
The 2024 Singapore Shangri-la Dialogue was clearly made into a platform to project the U.S. campaign to vilify China by highlighting America’s willing stooge in Asia today, Philippine President Bongbong Marcos as keynote speaker of the event to expound on the U.S. scripted South China Sea grumblings of U.S. Filipino proxies that ASEAN and China have agreed to resolve respectfully and peacefully through dialogue and Win-Win strategies.
The Philippines is being dragged into the next proxy war the U.S. is setting the stage to, imposing on the country the installation of Intermediate and Medium Range Missile launchers that have caused even Russia to take notice and express concern. In reaction, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, “The implementation by the Americans of plans to deploy ground-based medium- and shorter-range missiles will not remain without our reaction… “
The issue of peace is indeed a vital concern of the Philippines today and we look forward to the exchange of ideas and views on the promotion of peace in our region and in the world at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, as well as to the visionary leadership for global peace of China as set forth in President Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative to lay the foundation of world peace in this our Asian Century.
The Beijing Xiangshan Forum will highlight China’s peacemaking role in global politics today demonstrated in many breakthrough negotiations brokered by China between contending nations such as: restoring the amicable relations of Iran and Saudi Arabia, keeping the lines of communication open between Ukraine and Russia, paving the way to the unity of Palestinian parties prepping for a “Two State” solution, and innumerable other peace initiatives.
With the 2024 Beijing Xiangshan Forum China provides a platform for the world to talk inclusively about the ways to world peace amidst the myriad challenges placed in the path of common understanding, common and indivisible security among all nations. It will definitely present a clear alternative that is bright, hopeful and positive for global harmony to the pessimistic outlook the IISI Singapore Shangri-la Dialogue presented.###
Herman “Ka Mentong” Tiu Laurel
is a broadcast journalist. He is a former columnist of Daily Tribune (INFOWARS and DIE HARD III; Mondays and Wednesday) and OpinYon (Consumers’ Demand!, Critic’s Critic, and People’s Struggle; weekly). He hosted Talk News TV and Journeys: Chronicles of our Asian Century, both on Global News Network. He is now the host of the radio and live stream program Global Talk News Radio for Radyo Pilipinas 1 – 738AM, which broadcasts every Sunday 8AM to 10AM. While in quarantine, he is hosting the live stream program Power Thinks on his personal Facebook page Herman Laurel (fb.com/hermantiulaurel) and the Global Talk News Radio Facebook page (fb.com/globaltalknewsradio) He was also the former Administrator of the Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC; now called the Bataan Technology Park, Inc.) during the administration of Corazon C. Aquino.
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