China's 'Three Global Initiatives' within the Framework of the 'Community of Shared Future for Mankind' Concept

The global geopolitical and geo-economics’ situation is rapidly deteriorating, posing risks and challenges to development, security, and global governance. Ongoing hostilities threaten regional and global security, hinder human development, and cause irreversible damage. The concept of the Community of Shared Future for Mankind reflects China's commitment to a peaceful and mutually beneficial environment, offering a framework and practical measures to address international issues. The Community of Shared Future represents the direction for global development, aiming for common prosperity, sustainable peace, and mutual learning among civilizations. The paper examines three global initiatives of China in the development, security and civilisation fields, with an emphasis on the issue of strategic leadership in the realisation of the the "Community of Shared Future". Inductive and synthetic research methods are applied to uncover the facts, starting from the preconditions of world development and moving on to the need for a global conceptual framework and practical ways to realise it. The study shows that implementing the three global initiatives is strategically crucial for creating a Global Community of Shared Future. The basic principles, central vision and practical way of implementing the three initiatives were examined. The Global Development Initiative promotes commonness, cooperation, inclusiveness, openness, and innovation. The Global Security Initiative addresses the common security needs of the international community. The Global Civilization Initiative showcases China's willingness to engage with the world community, promoting equality, mutual appreciation, dialogue, and understanding of different civilizations. The findings indicate that the three global initiatives complement each other in achieving lasting peace, universal security, shared prosperity, openness, inclusivity, purity, and virtue. The initiatives furthered the conceptual framework for building a Community of Shared Future and demonstrated practical options for modernisation and development in addressing contemporary global challenges and promoting pluralistic models of global governance.