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Towards a Harmonious World: The Roles of the International Law of Co-progressiveness and Leader States
This paper briefly summarizes the tenets of the idea of a Harmonious World as proposed by China, compares them with those of a Co-progressive World as proposed by the author and highlights the important roles of the international law of co-progressiveness and leader States in realizing the vision of the Harmonious World or Co-progressive World.
* Tengfei Professor and Director of the Silk Road Institute of International Law, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Editor-in-Chief of this Journal. These are the remarks that I gave at the First Asia-Euro Academic Forum held at Xi'an on 4–6 November 2007 by the Hong Kong Policy Institute and Xi'an Jiaotong University. A subsequent version of this paper will be included in the Conference collection for the forum. This note was completed on 30 December 2007. Email: sienho{at}chinesejil.org.