Global Development Initiative

And of course, there's lots of slanders and slurs that are thrown at China on the basis of this engagement, on the basis of the Belt and Road Initiative.

on the basis of the Global Development Initiative, on the basis of China's exports and imports.

But China is giving countries what they've been needing and asking for for decades.

It's not charity, it's business.

First is solidarity, and they mean political solidarity, in which they basically say that they want to send 300 subnational local politicians to China every year over the next three years.

There's a development pillar, which is under the Global Development Initiative, in which they want to extend a $9 billion development credit to Latin American and Caribbean countries and invest in what they call friendly ports and increase research and development around space and Antarctic research.

All that is in there, right? Third is peace, and that's under the Global Security Initiative, and that is very much focused on increasing law enforcement engagement.

And the last two, civilization and people-to-people ties, I think that's under the Global Civilization Initiative.

If you have ...

And remember, Xi has four global initiatives: the Global Security Initiative, the Global Development Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative.

Those are all been announced and as major programs, just like the Belt and Road Initiative.

These four global initiatives that Xi has unleashed are what they say: global.

Security is important to your country and to your people.

Second, the Global Development Initiative.

This is a system which says, okay, every country is entitled to develop.

And how they develop is up to that country because they're sovereign nations.

Again, this is code for the lie that history is being helped toward the utopian worker's paradise, an unachievable paradise that in truth was stolen from the Christian ideal of God working through a providence of restoration to build an actual kingdom of heaven on earth.

The Beijing-branded programs trumpeted in Xi's speech and include what he calls the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilizations Initiative.

These are all programs declared as Communist China's answer to what Xi elsewhere has called the historically determined alternative to Western liberal democracy.

This is another dangerous deception integral to the Chinese communist program for global domination.

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First up, Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to a high-level dialogue marking the fifth anniversary of the Global Development Initiative held at the UN Quarter in New York City.

He said development is the eternal theme for human society and a key to promoting the well-being of the humankind.

He said as the world's biggest developing country and a member of the global south, China stands ready to work with all parties to uphold a people-centered development philosophy, turn the vision of the sustainable development goals into reality, and make new and even greater contributions to building a community with a shared future for humanity.

Thank you very much for joining us, Dr. Wang.

Thank you for having me.

First of all, what do you think the Global Development Initiative has really delivered to the world over the past five years?

Well, I think the most important achievement of the GDI over the past five years is that it has moved from a broad proposal into a fairly large portfolio of practical development projects.