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Growth and peace top China’s national security agenda

china.org.cn / chinagate.cn by Wen Bing, November 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

[By Jiao Haiyang/China.org.cn]



Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to the United States and attended a series of activities marking the 70th anniversary of the United Nations in late September. During his visit, Xi made important speeches that offered an important window of opportunity for the international community to better understand China's national security policy.

China has been embarked on a road of national security that suits its national conditions and adapts to the development trends of the times. On April 15, 2014 at the first meeting of the National Security Commission, Xi first put forward and urged adherence to the outlook of an overall national security.

Xi's remarks during his US visit reflected and further expounded the national security outlook.

First, peaceful development is the strategic choice for national security.

President Xi stated that "peaceful development is the right path", and "sticking to the path of peaceful development is a strategic choice China has made based on objective judgments of the past, the present and the future". He particularly stressed that "no matter how strong it may become, China will never pursue hegemony, expansion or a sphere of influence". These statements explicitly sum up China's basic perception, basis for the choice and future direction of peaceful development, and point to the fundamental approach in defending national security.

Since the founding of New China in 1949, China has been unswervingly following the road of peaceful development, has gained understanding and trust from across the world, and has won continuing peace and unprecedented opportunities for development. China, today or in the future, has no reason to depart from this path, and the pursuit of peaceful development has become the collective will of the Chinese people. By adhering to peaceful development, it means to stick to peaceful consultations in settling disagreements and disputes between and among countries, and through making persistent peaceful efforts, to create conditions for political solutions to all issues, and to oppose any wanton use of force or threat to use it. By adhering to peaceful development, however, it is by no means sacrificing any national core interests, nor waiving legitimate rights to defend the national interests. When China follows the road of peaceful development, other countries too should do so. Only when all countries opt for the road of peaceful development could common development and peaceful coexistence be achieved.

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