China plays key role in global development and stability

• Published date: 17 January 2024
• Publication title: Daily News

Xi rallied leaders and experts in foreign policy to hold high the banner of building a community with a shared future for humanity, to keep opening new prospects for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, to tell China’s stories and the peaceful contribution of Chinese modernisation to humanity, and to promote understanding between China and the world through linking the country’s past with the present to enable the world to have a better understanding of the role of China in the new era

Xi also emphasised the importance of unity, stability, ideological clarity, and innovation at home in ensuring China continues to play an important role as a responsible trusted leading global power.

China has become a responsible major country and global power with enhanced international influence, stronger capacity to steer new endeavours, and greater moral appeal, hugely contributing to mutually beneficial development with both the global South and developed countries in the North. Beijing has demonstrated self-confident, assertive foreign policy rooted on the twin pillars of “Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy” and “Major-country Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era” to play a critical role in confronting contemporary global challenges.

Emboldened by decades of rapid peaceful development and a deep commitment to national sovereignty and interest, China has rallied the global community towards mutually beneficial partnerships based on a more equitably participatory global order, seeking diplomatic solutions to conflicts, dialogue over war and violence, and shared prosperity in the new era.

More importantly, these initiatives have resonated with the widespread interests of governments and citizens of the global South demonstrating confidence and support in China’s global leadership in facing emerging multilateral challenges.

Despite Beijing’s extensive transformative influence across the globe, Western critics have continued to stoke doubts on the role of China, while imposing sanctions which threaten equitable participation in the global economy and the fostering of harmony and amity between nations.

Major differences have also emerged between the West and countries in the global South over global security issues – for example, the conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, and Israel and Palestine, and the historical hegemonic unilateral political and economic dominance of world relations by the West, among many challenges impacting global...