Diplomacy in the environment to maximize the national interest

 Diplomacy in the environment to maximize the national interests of
Wang Xiaodong
Abstract: Environmental Diplomacy Ye Hao, Ye Hao foreign country as a whole, not to make foreigners uncomfortable, but to strive for the best national interest. We ideological and the West are two camps, the international image of China, good or bad does not depend on environmental protection. imperative, not how we hope to improve the international image of the use of environmentally friendly, but how to avoid the use of environmentally friendly foreign forces to achieve other goals, the most fundamental is how to use our hard power to win more environmental resources, and developing countries for which we tied to a piece to both justice, but also has the power.
for environmental diplomacy biggest problem is too many concessions
At present, China in environmental protection under great international pressure. for environmental diplomacy is concerned, mainly in the following two general situations:
1. can not eat rice
the so-called children of future generations of rice to eat, referring to the : You can not beat the foreigners ass, figure of foreigners happy moment, due to foreign accounts mm now too many concessions to the time and even our own children and grandchildren would be honored that we can not. Some people say that we first agreed, When it wants to do. This is an irresponsible attitude, easily destroyed if the treaty concluded with foreign countries, your loss is a big one spoke mm is not, the old lie, is not a problem in moral ? Also, you become a big country so what? So, something in environmental diplomacy, we must fight. For example, the issue of emissions per capita have to fight the concept, but also per capita to live. This is a very simple scientific truth, if a person ate a bowl of rice meal enough, 10 people ate a bowl of rice, he naturally enough. If you do not speak the per capita, a person eating a bowl of 10 people also eat a bowl of this reasons make sense it? Similarly, in six Chinese greenhouse gas emissions are not added together and an American case, what right they accuse China?
2. to talk historical accumulation
is very simple, if you do not speak the concept of historical accumulation, there will be two effects: First, do not allow us to develop a mm who had previously been robbed on the development of the first, allowed to develop on the back. The second is to encourage desperate now to discharge, after the issue say. Obviously, the accumulation of positive talk about the history, to calculate the historical account, the only way to make Everybody has a long-term consideration. On the contrary, if you do not consider the historical accumulation, that is, punishing evil good prize to encourage people to destroy the environment faster. like this can get out at all the reasons in the international sense, and we must talk about.
, of course, our country is not the strongest, is bound to consider the relations with foreign countries, But we want to within the range of possible, try to fight for more liberal terms. As for the relaxed conditions, we are not all used up, that is another matter. For example, we fight to the right to eat 100 bowls of rice, may be We did enough to eat 50 bowls, but we have to fight the 100 bowl, maybe we can come in the international fight for a higher limit, this can be, no problem. but the situation if the turn, then, has become a talking count of the country, which is not good. and if we embark on the diplomatic front mm on the one hand such a way wantonly shoot aliens ass, glad to foreigners, foreign to mention what conditions we are all agreed; the other hand we Also honored that we can not become a clown mm, a rogue, and rogue is a spineless. It is not desirable, and very ugly. Therefore, we prefer a little hard at the beginning, but we agreed, must be complied with. < br> Second, China's international image is good or bad does not depend on environmental
we must recognize that China's political system, not the same as the West, Western society we do not agree to a large extent rooted in this. Now the entire international community, is a victory in the Cold War the other side of the majority, the country is so big, you say you do not fight the ideological war with them, but people are playing with you, this is a basic reality. so some of the Western powers such an exclusion on your attitude, not because you are not hard in environmental protection on the hard, soft and soft, agreed to a number of conditions, not because you people did not spit spitting row did not line up, is simply not the reason. This determines the international realities, environmental and other issues in how much ass you take the attitude that they have not improve in this regard, we do not keep too much to wish for. such as this we are handling the Tibet issue, some experts that our message is too long blockade, the Western media's false picture spread before we really come out. This practice is not it? Our approach clearly is wrong with it, can improve we have to improve, But there is one, you can not think that these are technical issues, technical issues resolved as long as there is no problem, and Westerners on our side, this is pure nonsense, it is not possible. technical problem solving , and the situation may be a little bit better, but can not pull the overall situation is.
thinks they understand we have many foreign experts actually do not know, thought we played neat little tie, polite little, or the image a little better in environmental protection, a little more than give foreigners the impression that our good, simply not the case. If you talk about these things, we are doing has been very good to do than others much better, why not work it? Tibet this thing, people understand: first, the Western countries, if not treat us as enemies of the Cold War, it might really do not do so; Second, we do not hard gas : We have so many concessions, improved the international image of what, is not Why did not improve, this does not explain a problem? obvious fact that this philosophy is a failure, this obviously does not work. Of course, such experts can be said If we do not do this, the situation would be even worse. But in Tibet, we will be able to see this come out: not much bad! that what the experts always emphasize the soft war, the war hit overseas with a soft it, but you do not have the possibility of winning.
course, in the case of too much pressure, we do not do that concession is not possible, but it must be under the existing hard power to fight the more the better . Do not expect to win any image of the soft war, and China's international image is good or bad does not depend on environmental protection, does not depend on the international negotiating table in the environment give us much, mainly because we are the two ideological camps with them We hang in the ideological war free license, others are not linked, this is a fundamental problem. This is not how we go out to improve the international image of the use of environmentally friendly, but people come to your country, to take advantage of this issue of environmental protection against you, control you, weaken your strength. Clearly, some environmental organizations that take money directly from abroad or foreign forces direct the organization, the underlying situation is very complicated. So, how to avoid the use of external forces to achieve other goals of environmental protection how in environmental protection with external forces to urge the Chinese people? still have to consider how to win this battle in the country, rather than in foreign countries, which you do not have the possibility of winning, at least for now.
Third, the absolute Environmentalists undesirable
the environmental, there are two aspects of domestic co-exist: First, in the specific practices, environmental damage is the mainstream, because the economy to rapid development, we have to first to get rich, the officials said I have to GDP, the green on the first put up it. that education should not change or not? of course, education course to be changed, to make people really are environmentally conscious. Second, the absolute growth of environmentalism.
not environmentally friendly and is environmentally friendly co-exist, it is very terrible: on the one hand desperately pollution of the environment; the other hand, how others are all right pollution, related to their own little stick will not work. This does not all have to make what, this country there is peace in it? society harmonious operation alone, and simply can not run. PX is not built in Xiamen, Zhangzhou, to move over it? referendum in Taiwan, such a tense situation, March 17, 2008 against the PX project in Zhangzhou, march 14 .3 Japan is the Tibetan issue, March 17 is the environmental issue, this is freaky coincidence? not rule out the combination of boxing it. Again, like the Beijing Liulitun waste incineration power plant issue is not to produce the region in Beijing disputes and conflict? waste treatment plant should be built in Chaoyang District, Haidian District, can not be built, suburban districts and counties will be able to build it? other people's land is land, your land, but also to appreciate the appreciation of people's way, ah, this fight also End it? that Beijing's garbage how to do? Also, as e-waste recycling issues, we are at this stage of economic development, e-waste to be recycled must be treated, because it can extract the gold, silver, tin and other rare metals. If you do not recycle, tin probably not enough, just have to phone electronic circuit board soldering tin how much? After all, we have not the kind of wide extent in Japan, e-waste can be transported to other countries to deal with . Then how do we do? light that is of no use pretty words, these things is to seek truth from facts.
Indeed, in environmental protection should not have made many mistakes, we have committed. Now a lot of environmental layout error, Europe 50 years of the 20th century will not be made, but we are committed to the eighties and nineties. like that of 100 programs, you're looking for the best one is not easy, but you have to touch the dead rat blind cat brushes against the worst A bar is not easy, but we have now is the one with the worst. This has the Government's negligence, on the other hand we are really pressed for it, if all come down, we will not eat out. In the first case, if foreign and domestic public opposition against the Government, completely normal; but in the second case, no way you can. how these two cases separately: the first case is to accountability, the processing have to deal with, the review must review; in the second case appears, is to make it clear that we face a real situation, the expense of environmental protection in China for a certain growth rate, but can not afford the absolute environmental requirements. Xiamen PX incident, some media said that it was out cheering the progress of democracy, but you know, lying like this we can say, but in the hard physical conditions, we can not hold. In such a case the , the Democratic Ye Hao, authoritarian Ye Hao, progress or not to level if these words are empty, and had to put back, we have to live. now is I can not live without the bowl of rice when You gave me a bowl of rice I get to eat first busted another. but we do not have this sense of urgency, not chemical plants What we do not feel guilty, we can spend money to buy ah! Now, these things we have from developed countries to imports, even if we do not speak first, security issues, said that people do not sell to us how to do, we will only consider the use of more words can not all imports, all imports of what kind of price? how much money we spend Buy? We can not afford to afford to spend this money? If we want to spend so much money, we can not improve people's lives?
four, so rational a strong environmental diplomacy
1. in the environment, foreign affairs, To fully understand the strength of our nation
environmental protection is simply not a moral issue, saying that the people of Western countries, a strong sense of environmental protection so well, we must talk about it clearly not the case children. environmental diplomacy is fight environmental resources, the Western countries want to compete more environmental resources to enjoy their own, of course we would also like to fight more to enjoy our environmental resources, which are the same. Since we all want, which has a strength of the size of problems. China's strength, though not the strongest, but diplomatic problems, the most important is not strength and too many concessions. In fact, we are not so weak, that our understanding and foreigners have formed a sharp contrast in particular. is an example of mid-October 2007, should France France24 television and the U.S. reported that the world's second power is China. Inquirer holding this view is the rate in the country are: France 93%, 90% of the United States, Germany and the UK 87%. investigation for the Chinese, let us schedule the Chinese themselves , we turn 10 later discharged. foreigners to our knowledge is not too high, it is possible, but at least not our own perception of their own so low. including foreigners on our understanding of itself, is one of our strength. we have the power, and to recognize their own strength. the image of this thing, can not win, because they always keep you as a party of ideology, but we are the world economy alone, engine that, we also put in the hard power here, foreigners have to admit. With our hard power, to fight for our environmental protection is possible.
2. vigorously promote cooperation with developing countries < br> In the environment, foreign affairs, we certainly want to contact the world's other developing countries such as India, Brazil, Mexico, and so on. Although the other issues, India is competing with China, but international interest in the fight for environmental issues , particularly in China and India have common interests. As I understand it, India in this regard is much better than the Chinese do, and now we are fighting on behalf of developing countries in international environmental resources on the contribution, far less than India comprehensive national strength as our country, we should feel ashamed. Indian Academy of Sciences for the Western countries have accused India of damage to the environment to say, done a lot of research work targeted to a very convincing data against a Western nation, and we, get no such argument. In the competition for the world's environmental resources on the battlefield, should argue at the time, we basically stood watching, standing in front of contention is the large developing countries such as India. This situation must be change, which of course depends on the money you have, there is no such technology, but more important is that you do not have this awareness. we are subject, whether or Social Science subjects, funding often millions, tens of millions, why can not we allocate the money to engage in a practice such as India, can argue. from the promotion of international environmental justice point of view, we should vigorously promote cooperation with developing countries, should make our due contribution. In this issue, the front is very clear, this is not the ideological front, the front is the national interest.
conclusion
environmental diplomacy Ye Hao, Ye Hao foreign country as a whole, not for communication, not for comfort to foreigners, foreign is to fight for national interests. Sometimes we have to make foreigners uncomfortable, it is in the national interest that we need to make foreigners uncomfortable; if our national interests do not let foreigners uncomfortable, and that diplomacy is necessary to make them uncomfortable. for national interest is a tenet of diplomacy, environmental diplomacy is certainly no exception, with the aim to do other things, no matter how stringent requirements of our domestic environment, we in the international environment is to fight for more resources. Western countries already have not commensurate with their population's resources, still want more, so that developing countries there is no way to survive. This principle is certainly to talk to understand, so the environmental resources in the fight, we just at hand. Of course, this not entirely about the world of justice, he also talk about power, we tied to the developing countries together, the strength of the Western countries can not be underestimated.
(Author: China Youth Research Center Research Associate)
article Editor Zhang Liang
2008 No. 4