Towards a harmonious World: The roles of the international law of co-progressiveness and leader states

Chinese Journal of International Law

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-105

  Yee, Sienho ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 57749122429     PISSN: 15401650     EISSN: 17469937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chinesejil/jmn006     Document Type: Article

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1. For a brief summary of the process of the debut of the concept, see, www.news.xinhuaner.com/ziliao/2006-08/ 24/content-5000866.htm;www.news. xinhuanetxom/politics/2006-08/23/comcnt-4999294.htm;
2. see also Yang Jiemian, Tentative comments on interaction between the concept of the Harmonious World and the transformation of the international system, Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping Lilun Yanjiu (Studies on the Theories of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping), 2007, No. 1, 61.
3. See background materials on the idea of a Harmonious Society {vvww.politics.people.com.cn/GB/8198/70195/ 70201/4757608.html).
4. See www.new,s.xinhuaner.com/ziliao/2006-08/24/content-5000866.htm.
5. Build Towards a Harmonious World of Lasting Peace and Common Prosperity, Speech by H.E. Hu Jintao. President of the People's Republic of China, at the United Nations Summit, New York, 15 September 2005 (www.china-un.org/eng/zr/ shnh60/t212915-htm).
6. The translation is mine. The original from Xinhua News Agency is:
7. See www.china.org.cn/english/congress/229611.hrm (parr III)
8. Ibid., part XL The Chinese original (http://mvw.china.com.cn/17da/2007- 10/24/conrenr-9119449-11.htm) reads:
9. Sienho Yee, Towards an International Law of Co-progressiveness, in: Sienho Yee and Wang Tieva (eds), International Law in the Post-Cold War World: Essays in Memory of Li Haopei (April 2001), 18-39.
10. Above n. 5-7 and accompanying texts.
11. Yang Jiemian, above n. 1, at 64.
12. See www.news.xinhuanet.con/politics/2006-08/23/content-4999294.htm.
13. Sienho Yee, Sovereign Equality of States and the Legitimacy of "Leader States", in: Ronald St, John Macdonald and Douglas M. Johnston (eds.), Towards World Constitutionalism (Martinus Nijhoff 2005), 737-772
14. (A Chinese translation of this paper has appeared at Xi'an Jiaotong Daxue Xuebao (Shehui Kexue Ban) (Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University (Social Sciences)), 2007, No, 5, pp.54-71.
15. Victor Fung-shuen Sit, Hong Kong's Role in China's Strategy in Central Asia in the Multicentric vet Increasingly Globalising World, in: Proceedings of Symposium on "China-Central Asia Relations in the Changing World Order", 21 July 2007 (Hong Kong Policy Research Institute and Xi'an jiaotong University), 24.
16. Recently, the World Bank recalculated various relevant data, still ranking China second. See, www.siteresourcesAVQrldbankotg/lCPlNT/ Resources/ICPreportprelim.pdf (permanent URL;www.go.worldbank.org/VMCB80AB40).
17. See Rein Miillerson, Central Asia: A Chessboard and Player in the New Great Game (2007), 284-293, on Friedrich F, Martens. While Martens may be wrong on several points, his view on the relationship between a State's domestic behaviour and its international role deserves careful study.