Global Security Initiative

Why in news?

• A new Global Security Initiative has been put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
• This initiative will look to counter the U.S’s Indo-Pacific strategy and the Quad – the India, U.S., Australia, Japan grouping.

Aim of this initiative:

• Global Security Initiative will stay committed to the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security.
• It would oppose unilateralism, and say no to group politics and bloc confrontation.
• This initiative would oppose the wanton use of unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction.

Key Principles:

• This initiative would build an Asian security model of mutual respect, openness and integration.
• It would oppose the destruction of the international order under the banner of so-called rules.
• It will also oppose the dragging of the world under the cloud of the new cold war.
• This initiative will oppose the use of the Indo-Pacific strategy to divide the region and create a new Cold War, and the use of military alliances to put together an Asian version of NATO.

PRACTICE QUESTION:

Global Security Initiative, recently seen in news, was proposed by:

(a) European Union

(b) United States

(c) ASEAN

(d) China

Answer