Discussing the "community of common destiny" and reasons for its non-acceptability
internationally, Wang Yiwei Vice President of the Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism
with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Renmin University of China, Professor of the
School of International Relations, and Jiangyang, the Director of the Institute of International
Governance of the China Academy of Cyberspace, in an article in the Beijing Daily (September
5) differentiated between "Secular thinking and religious thinking". They said "Different from
the European Community, the Community of Shared Future for Mankind is a community of
all mankind that respects sovereignty. The concepts and thinking it advocates can prevent the
emergence of inequality in which the weak depend on the strong. As for the community of
human destiny, the West (monotheism) emphasizes the concept of destiny of
inevitability, India (polytheism) emphasizes the concept of fate of contingency, and China
(atheism) advocates the concept of destiny that unifies necessity and contingency, that is, the
concept of virtuousness, virtue, and life. In fact, the West has rich ideas of "community of
mankind" and even the formulation of "community of mankind", while China's innovation lies
in the expression of "luck", an era of human relations, and extending it to the height of a
community with a shared future for mankind. "Fate" is not the "destiny" of the past life, nor
the "destiny" of the next life, but the "common destiny" of this life. In the Chinese context,
destiny is autonomous, because people can be "heavy and fertile". "Common destiny" liberates
people from external authority on the one hand, and shapes a united and common human value
dimension on the other hand.
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