This desperate attempt by the Chinese leaders, described in the article reflects our human concern, that we always try to remain in control, that we feel ourselves above the system we live in and believe we can direct everything around us, mostly by force and coercion, keeping a tight grip on things.

At the same time what we learn through the global crisis is that even institutions we ourselves created, our social, political or economical system just to mention the most obvious, are slipping through our fingers, are falling apart, and we are standing after our whole evolution so far, at the point of not knowing who we are and where we are, and especially where we should be heading.

So does this mean that the western point of view, especially the US Republican point of view asking for total freedom, minimal central control, that everybody can basically do whatever they like is the right approach, or the "balanced European" approach is the right one?

Unfortunately none of them are correct. It does not matter which approach we choose until we do not understand the vast natural system we are just part of, and we do not accept that in order to succeed, to have a sustainable future and to survive we need to harmonize ourselves with this system.

Our inherent human nature is all about subjective self calculations, maximum self profit with minimum or zero concern for others or for the environment we exist in.

The vast natural system around us is based and is surviving by homoeostasis, all the elements of the system (except humans) instinctively following this law of overall harmony and mutuality.

Even our healthy human body is based on the same principles, still when it comes to how we relate to each other or to the environment around us we fall back into our selfish, egoistic nature.

Today as even humanity has evolved into the global, integral network, from which none of us can escape, break out, we cannot ignore the laws of integral systems.

It is as if so far "we were given" a loose, free playground, a vacuum where we could experiment with different models, go through different stages, but from now on the "playtime" is over and we need to mature and adapt to the system.

The Chinese leaders are not alone in their search for the perfect formula for the future, the whole of humanity is in it together.

And as it happens in global, integral systems the answers can only come when we truly start to cooperate, in a mutually responsible fashion, for the benefit of the whole system, taking into consideration all of its elements.