China & U.S. Relationship and Global Community: Responsibilities and Roles in Addressing Global Issues

Abstract

It is not easy to say that global issues can be tackled thoroughly as they are. However, MDGs achievements show a significant pace of the United Nations. But the question is to know whether a current relationship between China and United States can at least help the United Nations to effectively address the issues which the international society is laboring with. These issues include spread of deadly technologies, nuclear weapons proliferation, wars on terror, mass atrocities, economic upheavals from climate change and an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease. The mutual relationship between China and United States known as Sino-U.S. relations underpins different domains in which these countries cooperate. This relationship entails mutual political, economic, and security interests. In addition, both countries have the same regard in the prevention of international terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation, however, there are few elements that can raise tensions between these two countries. With that cooperation, the global community expects to get enormous benefits and power that can effectively impact the challenges that it is undergoing. Both China and U.S. are expected to intensify the international cooperation at the regional and continental level to ensure the promotion of human rights. In addition, as long as both countries are members of the P5, they are expected to strengthen good governance and human dignity and law enforcement to guarantee fair justice systems ensuring the rule of law, though the world burdens should not fall under their shoulders alone. Therefore, the primacy and leadership of China and U.S. over other countries is expected to help international institutions in many aspects. For example; through guaranteeing complementarity in the international system and global governance which is vital and through mobilizing political will with better policies which are required to effectively tackle global issues.