- Gordon Dumoulin
a look into Win-Win Cooperation ๅไฝๅ ฑ่ตข
Do not '๐ด๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๅซๅตๅๆฃโ
Letโs take a look into ๐ช๐ถ๐ป-๐ช๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๅไฝๅ ฑ่ตข, a popular term these days how China sees the development of collaborations with other countries. A term often raising eyebrows in Western nations and media like a hollow or captious phrase.

Despite what people might think, Win-Win Cooperation is nothing new in China. The concept is ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐น๐ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐๐น๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐. Win-Win Cooperation is not a stagnant concept, it is a constantly changing and adapting movement to find balance (win-win) at any time or circumstance in an ecosystem. This applies to collaborations but also to societies, families, nature, actually everything.
A more familiar term for people is Yin Yang, often perceived as mystic or floating but on the contrary, it is a pragmatic concept of acceptance that each environment (micro as business or family, or macro as society or international relations) consists of different forces and emotions, all related to each other and changing constantly. There is no single way or truth to clinch on, there is no single right or wrong or black and white. It is all there, related and connected, moving up and down, left and right, ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ ๐๐๐บ.

Win-Win Cooperation is about continuously working together on this inter-connected moving balance ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐๐ and the benefit of the whole ecosystem.
In the West people tend to analyse situations, developments or trends by ๐๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป to isolated stand-alone uniform perspectives for trying to obtain a logical understanding to form a stagnant conclusion or policy how to stand in an ecosystem or collaboration. Relations, connections, influences or changes by, from within or between those situations or developments are mostly kept out of the analytical equation.
๐๐ค๐จ๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐บ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ถ๐ด ๐ฝ๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐น ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ.

Distinct cultural concepts but certainly no polar opposites, instead complementary and of mutual value. Collaboration is all about starting off with similarities and integral ambitions instead of focusing on differences.
Another term from China usually not being grasped with comfort in the West, '๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐' is another example of these culturally rooted thoughts.
Cross-cultural learning is key for a better people-to-people understanding, especially in this media and politicizing era of separatism and xenophobia. Do keep in mind, peopleโs similarities are far greater than the differences.

Read more about Yin Yang in pragmatic perspectives in following link โYin Yang โ Balance between Dark & Light, War & Peaceโ by Todd Cornell ๅบท้ธฟ็น
Yin Yang โ Balance between Dark & Light, War & Peaceโ