"A Human Community with a Shared Future"
"China is dedicated to promoting a human community with a shared future," Xi Jinping said at the opening session of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 16.
China has always been committed to its foreign policy goals of upholding world peace and promoting common development, Xi said. The report provided by the Xinhua News Agency follows:
Stressing that human society faces unprecedented challenges, Xi called upon all countries to hold dear humanity's shared values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom, and promote mutual understanding and forge closer bonds with other peoples.
"Let us all join forces to meet all types of global challenges," Xi said.
China remains firm in pursuing an independent foreign policy of peace. It has always decided its position and policy on issues based on their own merits, and it has strived to uphold the basic norms governing international relations and safeguard international fairness and justice, Xi said.
China stands firmly against all forms of hegemonism and power politics, the Cold War mentality, interference in other countries' internal affairs, and double standards, Xi said.
Xi noted that China will never seek hegemony or engage in expansionism.
China adheres to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in pursuing friendship and cooperation with other countries. It is committed to promoting a new type of international relations, deepening and expanding global partnerships based on equality, openness, and cooperation, and broadening the convergence of interests with other countries, Xi said.
Guided by the principles of sincerity, real results, affinity, and good faith and with a commitment to the greater good and shared interests, China endeavors to strengthen solidarity and cooperation with other developing countries and safeguard the common interests of the developing world, Xi said.
China is committed to its fundamental national policy of opening to the outside world and pursues a mutually beneficial strategy of opening up. It strives to create new opportunities for the world with its own development and to contribute its share to building an open global economy that delivers greater benefits to all peoples, Xi said.
China adheres to the right course of economic globalization. It is committed to working with other countries to foster an international environment conducive to development and create new drivers for global growth, Xi said.
China plays an active part in the reform and development of the global governance system. China upholds true multilateralism, promotes greater democracy in international relations, and works to make global governance fairer and more equitable, Xi said.
Xi said the world has once again reached a crossroads in history, and its future course will be decided by all the world's peoples.
The Chinese people are ready to work hand in hand with people across the world to create an even brighter future for humanity, Xi said.
Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence
The Five Principles, as stated in the Sino-Indian Agreement 1954, are listed as:
- mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and
sovereignty,
- mutual non-aggression,
- mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs,
- equality and co-operation for mutual benefit, and
- peaceful co-existence
These principles are a strict interpretation of the Westphalian norms of state sovereignty.
According to Wikipedia:
Westphalian sovereignty, or state sovereignty, is a principle in international law that each state has exclusive sovereignty over its territory. The principle underlies the modern international system of sovereign states and is enshrined in the United Nations Charter, which states that "nothing ... shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state." According to the idea, every state, no matter how large or small, has an equal right to sovereignty. Political scientists have traced the concept to the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which ended the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). The principle of non-interference was further developed in the 18th century. The Westphalian system reached its peak in the 19th and 20th centuries, but it has faced recent challenges from advocates of humanitarian intervention.
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 11 - November 2022
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