Editor's note: During the past decade, the world has increasingly witnessed a trend of 'the East is rising, and the West is declining' in the spheres of economy, security and discourse power. Western countries, particularly the US, plagued by internal woes, have sought the old path of passing the buck and instigating turmoil elsewhere to ease their own pressure. China, representative of the emerging countries, is proposing new solutions to global problems. By advocating win-win development, facilitating consultation and reconciliation and proposing a balanced and effective security mechanism, China is striving to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

In this article, Michele Geraci, former undersecretary of state at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, refuted Western slanders against China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region with his own experience of visiting the region when talking to Global Times (GT) reporter Yu Jincui. He suggested US and European countries should 'never point fingers at others' when it comes to human rights as they also have human rights issues in their own countries. Echoing Chinese President Xi Jinping's call for China and the EU to add stabilizing factors to a turbulent world, Geraci said 'We should make European and Chinese become closer to each other.'