VISION
Chinese wisdom builds new international relations with a focus on win-win cooperation
Wu Sike · 1 ·
At present, the international community is facing great changes, great reforms and great adjustments. The international order is evolving at an increasing speed. Countries face important opportunities, among them a declining risk of confrontation among major powers, a rapid progress of science and technology, and the development of regional cooperation. At the same time, global challenges including terrorism, climate change, as well as energy and resource security are increasing as well. International cooperation faces both major opportunities and many serious challenges. Chinese spirit, concept and approach are serving as guide for other countries to raise their goals of domestic and global governance as well as cooperation to the same level of peace and development, and help them promote the values of peace, openness and inclusiveness.
CAFTA is expected to be the pilot area of the “The Belt and Road” Initiative and the demonstration area of the community of common destiny.
Yu Hongjun · 7 ·
The initiative of building the 21st century Maritime Silk Road was proposed by President Xi Jinping during his visit in Indonesia in 2013. This initiative and the initiative of building the Silk Road Economic Belt that proposed by President Xi Jinping during his visit in Central Asia in September 2013 supplement each other. These two initiatives constitute this integrated “The Belt and Road” millennium initiative. The “Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation” held in Beijing in May 2017 attracted a lot of heads of states and governments of ASEAN. “The Belt and Road” Initiative is the mobilization order that stimulates China’s further opening wider to the outside world, deeply participating in economic globalization and striding towards the center of the international arena; and it is also a Declaration for China’s intention of having interactive development together with peripheral countries and countries along “The Belt and Road” and even the whole world. The Chinese nation and countries in the world, including countries of ASEAN, are striving together in good faith for realizing the magnificent undertaking of “The Belt and Road” Initiative, and they will write a brilliant new chapter for the development of contemporary human society.
“The Belt and Road Initiative” & public diplomacy How to tell the Belt and Road stories?
Wang Yiwei · 15 ·
A country needs to stand on the shoulders of giants in order to rise as a great power. Europe, where the ancient Silk Road used to end, once governed the world, which grants it a voice in the “connectivity in five areas”, i.e. connectivity of policy, transportation, trade, currency and the heart of the people. Hence, Europe is our ideal partner in implementing the Belt and Road Initiative. Winning the support of Europe has global significance for countries along the Belt and Road all have inextricable connections with the continent. The example of Europe shows that targeted measures should be taken to deal with the risks in regard to the perception of the Belt and Road Initiative and effectively respond to the concerns.
Public diplomacy and the building of China’s national image under the Belt and Road Initiative
Tang Xiaosong & Jing Lina · 22 ·
The Belt and Road Initiative does not only mark the inevitable trend of China’s opening up, but also the country’s transition from a participant to a shaper of globalization. The article attempts to frame the national image China should create to help the smooth implementation of the initiative so that its identity of an active shaper of the international community would be recognized by countries along the Belt and Road route. It highlights that public diplomacy should focus on the countries along the route, and by this create China’s national image as a place of peace, growth, inclusiveness and as well as being a responsible stakeholder.
