Liao Fan: The Human Rights and Sovereignty Connotations of theIdea of a Community of Shared Future for Mankind

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The idea of a community of shared future for mankind is an important ideological and theoretical contribution made by China to the world community in a new era and a bright banner by which China leads the trend of the times and the progress of human civilization. Human rights are an important dimension in the understanding, interpretation and construction of a community of shared future for mankind whereas a community of shared future for mankind gives human rights rich humanistic connotation and brand-new characteristics of the times.Integrated system, inclusiveness, balance, consultation and common progress are the distinctive features of the human rights connotation of a community of shared future for mankind.A community of shared future for mankind is a community established on the basis of sovereign equality, which is the primary principle to be followed in the process of construction of a community of shared future for mankind. From the perspective of construction of a community of shared future for mankind, China should, on the one hand, adhere to the dialectical unity of human rights and sovereignty and oppose the one-sided argument of “human rights above sovereignty” and, on the other hand, understand the concrete connotation of sovereignty from a developing point of view andinnovate and adjust relevant discourses and policies in good time, so as to contribute the Chinese wisdom and strengthen to the international rule of law and global governance.