The second panel brought together, under the conceptual hand of the Schiller Institute, government representatives from the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation and the Syrian Arab Republic, and scientists and thinkers from Mexico, Argentina, the U.S., France, and Pakistan. (The transcription of the first part of the panel is in this briefing.)
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her opening remarks, warned of the threat of global nuclear war in the near term, given the current plan to globalize NATO, while declaring China as an enemy of the West. She posed the challenge: can Humanity not find the capacity to give itself a New Paradigm to insure a bright future?
Consul General Ping Huang, from the Chinese Consulate General in New York City, gave a major address, dispelling widely circulated lies and misconceptions about China, its history and the Communist Party of China. He described the nature of democracy in China, the unity of human rights and economic progress in China, and a foreign policy defined by the common destiny of mankind. How can the current confrontation between China and the U.S. be replaced by collaboration? He answered: the West must understand that China will never give up its right to become a modern, prosperous nation; move to restart cooperation in counter-terrorism, non-proliferation, combatting the financial crisis, and enliven joint business ventures. He concluded that as great nations, the U.S. and China shoulder heavy responsibilities for the fate of all Mankind: only the right choice can ensure a bright future.
First Secretary Alexey Boguslavskiy of the Russian Federation Mission to the UN warned that the geopolitics of the “rules-based order,” rather than the international law inscribed in the UN Charter, and the formation of military blocs, will only lead to disaster. He said that with the Covid pandemic raging, the world’s people are demanding cooperation among the great powers. He sharply ended his talk by quoting John Quincy Adams: “America should not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
Next, Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, Media and Political Advisor to the Syrian Presidency, gave a passionate discussion of the destruction of her country over the last 10 years by an American policy which is based on the ugly axiom of Western supremacy, on the deploying of a World NATO and an obsession with “the rise of China.” She called for a New Paradigm of relations between nations which acknowledges that God created all of us — with different cultures and different histories — which must each and all be respected and allowed to freely develop, to enrich the world as a whole. (Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted during the Q&A that Dr. Shaaban’s presentation to a Schiller Institute Conference in Germany in 2016 had been quite optimistic, in great contrast to the destruction of the nation that has taken place since then.)
