Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Xinhua think tank report emphasizes China's commitment to promoting world peace

Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2025-02-18 

BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- As global security challenges increase and intensify, China has initiated a vision for common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, following a path of peaceful development while striving to promote peaceful coexistence and inclusive exchange of civilizations, said a Xinhua think tank report released on Tuesday.

China has always been a practitioner of peaceful development, as highlighted in the report titled "Promoting the Development and Progress of Human Civilization through Exchange and Mutual Learning" released by Xinhua Institute, a think tank affiliated with Xinhua News Agency.

China is the only major country that has enshrined peaceful development in its Constitution -- elevating it to a national commitment, according to the report.

It noted that as a permanent member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, China has faithfully fulfilled its responsibilities and missions, being the second largest financial contributor to both the UN and UN peacekeeping operations, while also providing more peacekeepers than any of the other permanent members of the Security Council.

China, in addition, firmly supports the core role of the UN in international affairs, while actively promoting security cooperation within frameworks such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and developing international security dialogue platforms -- including the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, the report stated.

The report also highlighted China's role in leading the reform of global security governance, noting that the country has offered Chinese wisdom to further improve global security governance by proposing the Global Security Initiative.

Concerning non-traditional security, China leads international security governance in emerging fields. Through efforts such as enacting the world's first legislation on generative AI, China has shared its extensive experience in AI governance with the world, making significant contributions to global AI governance, the report explained. ■


China's top diplomat asks Ireland to 'expand' bilateral ties, urges 'equal' ties with EU

During his debut trip to island nation, Wang Yi meets Prime Minister Micheal Martin and Irish counterpart Simon Harris


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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged Ireland to “expand” bilateral ties, saying the island nation has “benefited” from cooperation with Beijing.

Wang made the remarks during meetings with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin and Foreign Minister Simon Harris on Monday, according to a statement from Beijing and Chinese state media.

This was Wang's first visit to Ireland as foreign minister.

Relations between the two countries hold “great potential and broad space,” Wang said, adding that China is “willing to work with Ireland to… become partners of mutual trust, mutual respect, and mutual achievement,” as this year marks the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between China and the EU.

He stressed the need for both sides to “adhere to the partnership positioning, properly handle differences, and work together to promote the sustained and healthy development of China-EU relations.”

"Both China and Ireland are firm defenders of multilateralism and free trade," he said. "Under the current circumstances, China is willing to work with Ireland and the EU in the spirit of equality and mutual respect, upholding the principles of openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation to enhance dialogue, build trust, and resolve differences."

Ireland is one of the few European countries with a trade surplus with China, while Beijing remains Ireland’s largest trade partner in Asia.

Before flying to the US, where he will chair a high-level UN Security Council meeting in New York, Wang told Irish leaders that China and the EU were “important forces in the multipolar world.”

​​​​​​​“China is willing to work with all parties, including Europe, to jointly safeguard the authority of the UN, abide by the basic norms of international relations, resist unilateralism, and oppose a return to the ‘law of the jungle’,” he said.

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