Uphold the Great Principle, and the World Will Follow’ — President Xi Jinping

by Marathon Girl

Sept. 3—Concluding his remarks to the SCO-Plus meeting in Tianjin on September 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping said:

“An ancient Chinese philosopher said of the importance of principles, ‘Uphold the Great Principle, and the world will follow.’ In two days, China will commemorate solemnly the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Many colleagues will join us in Beijing. We are ready, together with all parties, to uphold courageously the great principle and the common good of the world, promote a correct historical perspective on World War II, resolutely safeguard the fruits of our victory in the War, and deliver more benefits to the entire humanity through the reform of the global governance system and the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.”

In Chinese philosophy “the great principle” has a specific meaning, having to do with the heavenly origin of things and the principles of creation, or natural law. This concept is in harmony with the last of the Ten Principles put forth by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche regarding the perfectibility of man, “that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul, and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.”

With that dedication, it’s no wonder that Presidents Putin, Xi, and Indian Prime Minister Modi were all smiles as they greeted one another at the history-shaping Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit of 2025. And why not be happy? The efforts of these nations to cooperate in great projects of economic development, scientific discovery, and culture have lawfully created a situation in which these nations, combined, yield greater economic, and even military, strength than the combined powers of the bankrupt West. For the knee-jerk conformists, who stop listening after the phrase “global governance,” presuming that Presidents Putin and Xi mean Bertrand Russell’s “World Government,” please listen closely to what these leaders are saying, and watch what they are doing. They are speaking of a new order of human relations, not based on an arbitrary “rules-based order” imposed through starvation and war, but a system based on mutual respect for each nation’s security and economic interests, and an appreciation of the richness of the diversity of humanity as a whole.

In his November 29, 2004 feature “The Coming Eurasian World,”, Lyndon LaRouche described the phenomenon of the morally bankrupt West as follows: “Let such caricatures of poor King Canute as President George W. Bush, Jr., howl their denials, while they can still be heard. Let him shriek in futile rage against those thunderous winds of chaos which were already hurling themselves against the increasingly bankrupt national financial systems of the world. That chaos, now excited to the greater turbulence caused by the desperate antics of such poor, enraged fools as he, now descends with its own, added, uncontrollable fury upon our hapless, present world monetary-financial system.”

But today, it is not all of the “national financial systems of the world” that are bankrupt, but merely those of the delusional Western nations whose leaders cling to failed axioms, and non-principles, like “might makes right,” which has been exposed to the eyes of the world as a deadly fraud, with genocidal consequences.

President Xi addressed this as well, by insisting that the scourge of fascism not be forgotten, and that the history of World War II not be rewritten by the very same financial and political interests that gave us Adolf Hitler and militarist/fascist Japanese Empire.

The NATO press propaganda machine of Western Europe and the United States has been caught completely off guard, having believed in their own magical powers to control the narrative, and therefore history, and are left, really, with nothing to say.

If the people of the West would have the humility to look inside themselves and find their better angels rooted in the Greek Classics, the Italian Renaissance, and the principles of the American War of Independence against the British Empire, they would discover that the new strategic and economic architecture coming into being is not directed against them, or against anyone; and if they would uphold the principle that they claim to hold so dear, that “All Men are created equal” (Men as in mankind, the species, male and female), and stop the slaughter of innocents in Palestine and everywhere else on the planet, they would find themselves welcome to participate in unleashing a new era for the development of mankind. Otherwise, the immortal Friedrich Schiller has warned, “Denn das Gemeine geht klanglos zum Orkus hinab.”