CPC dialogue with world’s parties sends new messages

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The Communist Party of China (CPC) in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting, currently underway in Beijing, is a sign of China in a "New Era," which General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping introduced during the 19th CPC National Congress in October.

Experts believe that this new stage in China’s history coincides with a new Asia-led international system, introduces a new definition of cooperation, and sends a new message to the world.

"Not only is China in a new era, the whole world is on the brink of a new era where the Atlantic system is crumbling and crashing down," Yunus Soner, central committee member of the Turkish Patriotic Party (Vatan Partisi), said on CGTN’s The Point (@thepointwithlx) on Thursday.

"One energy has to rise if another energy goes down."

The left-wing political party is representing Turkey at the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting, along with the conservative Justice and Development Party, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party.

The event, which China is organizing for the first time, is themed "Working together towards a community with a shared future for mankind and a better world: Responsibilities of political parties."

Soner noted that Asia, or Eurasia, is a rising power, and stressed that it will lead to a new level of civilization.

"This is the context in which we see the call for this dialogue," Soner maintained. "This will be the rise of a new civilization, actually."

He cited the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative as one of the indications of such a civilization, noting that it is the backbone of a new continental, strategic cooperation.

"It’s a cooperation built on sharing, not mutual interest," Soner added. "Sharing is a collective position, and it is not an individualistic position or the classical liberalism that we know from the West."

Laurence Brahm, founding director of the Himalayan Consensus Institute, said the CPC’s dialogue with parties from around the world is sending a "very different message than the historical ones that became historical baggage for the CPC in Mao’s time."

Back then "the Party insisted on party-to-party relations with other Communist parties, which often were not in parallel with state-to-state relations," Brahm explained. "This led to a lot of conflicts, problems, and misinterpretations, particularly in Southeast Asia."

He pointed out that the CPC is now dealing with all political parties regardless of whether they uphold socialist, democratic, or republican views. Moreover, they deal with the governments in power.

"It could be democrats, republicans, or the Muslim brotherhood," Brahm said. "They deal with the party that has been selected by the people through their own political process."

Leaders from over 200 parties and political organizations in more than 120 countries have descended on the Chinese capital for the event.

The Point with Liu Xin is a 30-minute current affairs program on CGTN. It airs weekdays at 9:30 p.m. BJT (1330GMT), with rebroadcasts at 5:30 a.m. (2130GMT) and 10:30 a.m. (0230GMT).

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