Instead of worrying about 'lose-lose' why not choose cooperation and win-win

High-rises dominate the skyline on both sides of the Huangpu River in Shanghai. The mentality of competition and conflict of some Western major powers makes the "lose-lose" prospect seemingly inevitable: following the logic of the "winner takes all", every player would strive to be the winner at the expense of others; as the emerging market countries grow bigger with increased strength to tip the international balance of power, competition among states will grow too fierce to produce any winner. For example, NATO is keen on building its muscle to deter Russia instead of seriously mulling over a security framework for Europe in trying to end the Ukraine crisis; the US keeps arming Israel in its fight against Hamas without facing up to the root causes and promoting real progress for a "two-state solution"; certain Western countries collude to build up "small yards with high fences" to hold back others at the expense of global common progress… The list goes on. I take inspiration from the statement made by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during China's "Two Sessions", which ended two weeks ago. This is the rationale behind many of China's diplomatic moves: mediating between Saudi Arabia and Iran to achieve a historic reconciliation in 2023, building conditions for the United Nations Climate Change Conference to reach the "UAE Consensus" and contributing to global climate response by committing to the world's highest carbon emission intensity reduction in the shortest time in history, and calling for the establishment of an international AI governance institution under the framework of the UN to jointly safeguard the well-being of humanity.