Global South：at 50 and beyond—The Voice from China on Reforming OIEO and Establishing NIEO

Chen An ＆ Yang Fan

【Abstract】　The great career of Global South-South Coalition（SSC）has just entered its fifties，if we take the establishment of Group 77 in 1964 as its origin．For half century，in order to eradicate the unfairness and injustice embedded in the old international economic order and legal rules，to fight for a better development environment，through wholehearted cooperation and joint action，the Global South has won some achievements，yet not without encountering a number of difficulties．For the past five decades，the course of SSC has seen its ups and downs．Confucian philosophy of China advocates for a comprehensive self-reflection every decade，so as to comb the past experience for the sake of future self-improvement．At this historical turning point，it is of necessity to retrospect SSC's past accomplishments and difficulties．Contemporary international economic circumstances should also be combined to revalue those ups and downs，so as to re-affirm the confidence of this long-term strategy，and to avoid tactical short-sightedness．In this way，the career of Global SSC could absorb the learned wisdom and rebuild the original confidence，then ready to sail out once again for new accomplishments at the age of“knowing the decrees of Heaven”．For Chinese scholars，it is also necessary and a responsibility to retrospect the New China's self-position on the course of SSC，so as to provide another kind of experience from the aspect of an involving developing country．It is noteworthy to point out that China has since 2008 taken the lead in participating and promoting the BRICS countries' activities to applaud and embrace the reformation of OIEO．Such pioneering undertaking has reached a new height，as in 2014 the world has seen a substantial breakthrough in reforming the international financial regime．The New Development Bank of BRICS countries is expected to usher in a whole new system to compete with the World Bank and IMF，which could be taken as a newly generated breeze that is now gently blowing from the above of duckweed（“风起于青萍之末”），with a possibility to start a chain reaction and to cause the Butterfly Effect，and evolves eventually into a powerful hurricane．Such metaphor is also a powerful evidence for a possible bright future of the course of South-South collective self-reliance.

附：加利先生约稿邀请函（原函及中译）

2014年3月30日

致　中国 陈安先生

亲爱的陈安先生：

我现以原联合国秘书长、南方中心主席、现任联合国和平大学欧洲和平与发展中心（ECPD）荣誉委员会主席、法语区联合体秘书长的多重身份向您致信。我先后就任的这些职位，都与发展问题以及发展中国家在多边舞台上的角色问题相关。

2013年10月11日至12日，在ECPD成立30周年会议上，就“21世纪的全球南方向何处去？”这一话题曾组织一次圆桌论坛。当时的会议议程综述表明，此话题值得更深入地探讨，尤其是2014年恰值77国集团成立50周年。这个历史节点，也是一次停步反思的机会，让我们深入思考全球南方群体存在的意义，它在国际舞台上的未来前途，以及它在构建全球化进程和世界经济政治秩序中应当发挥的作用。

有鉴于此，ECPD决定，联合77国集团，以双重名义邀请若干杰出的个人和机构，以“全球南方：年届半百，路在何方？（Global South：at 50 and beyond？）”为主题，撰写简明评论。当前，全球政治经济环境已经改变并且仍在快速变迁，发展中国家正面临众多共同的挑战，导致有人质问甚至怀疑南南联合事业的传统理念（traditional rationale of the South），际此时刻，我们尤其期望投稿能够提供多方位的视角，以供集思广益。

2014年6月1日之前收到的投稿，将提交于2014年7月14日至15日在玻利维亚Santa Cruz召开的“77国集团成立50周年纪念峰会”探讨；2014年9月1日之前收到的投稿，将提交于2014年9月在纽约召开的“77国集团第38届外交部长年会”探讨。为了扩大和深化有关这一话题的学理争鸣，ECPD计划专设网站，供今后刊载相关投稿之用。时机成熟之际，相关评论和观点将结集出版。

我希望您能够拨冗应约，并就此重要话题阐述您的宝贵见解。

请接受我个人的诚挚问候和致谢。

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