Civilizations do not necessarily clash

Civilizations today are more interconnected than ever before, the destiny of the people around the world is more closely linked and the international community agrees that civilizations should be inclusive and jointly promote development. Yet the "clash of civilizations" theory, which claims "principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations", had been in vogue until recently.

With the end of the Cold War, international relations are no longer confined to the study and interpretation of a single event or delimited by ideology, and more attention is being paid to global trends. While new ideas and theories are emerging to guide the world in the right direction, certain people are working their fingers to the bone to label some countries as opponents and rivals of the United States, which, incidentally, seeks unipolar domination.

It is in this context that Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington developed the "clash of civilizations" theory, which has three main characteristic features. First, in the new era, the leading cause of human disputes and conflicts will be the difference between civilizations and cultures. Second, the differences between civilizations and cultures are not only real but also fundamental. And third, economic globalization and regionalization have prompted civilizations to play a greater role in international relations and increased the possibility of conflicts among civilizations.