Senior Chinese diplomat calls for more inclusive world order based on mutual trust

To deal with common global challenges, nations across the globe need to forge a more inclusive and trust-based world order that features mutual respect, common security and win-win cooperation, a senior Chinese diplomat said here Tuesday.

At a session of the 13th annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club held in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, Fu Ying, chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress of China, shared with the audience her view on how to reform the current world order in order to promote global governance.

The issue of "world order" is now an agenda of global concern, but countries across the world still fail to reach a consensus on how to reform it and, to make things worse, there is a lack of trust between world powers, Fu said.

For instance, she said, despite their extensive cooperation and interdependence in the economic field, China and the United States are still far away from being partners when it comes to security issues, as underscored by their friction concerning the South China Sea dispute.

Washington has been trying to sustain a kind of world order that is consistent with American values in politics and based on the system of military alliance in security, which shows scant regard to the security needs of those outside its alliance, Fu noted.

Denying that China is mulling any set of strategies to challenge the U.S.-led world order, Fu said it is hard for Beijing to accept that order since it is politically and militarily exclusive of China.

China has been advocating an international order and system with principles of the UN Charter as the core, an idea that Fu said converges, in some areas, with the U.S.-version of world order, but they still differs in many respects.

As the world has broken away from great power monopoly and turned toward development and cooperation, the reform of international order should be phased in at a time when the world is in the face of diverse and complicated challenges with a number of problems resulted from ill governance in the process of globalization, she added.

In this regard, the idea of building a Community of Common Destiny, together with the Belt and Road Initiative, both proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, is aimed to promote growth and security through broad cooperation, the diplomat noted, adding that these proposals have been gaining traction.

Asked about whether China will adhere to the peaceful development road, Fu said she sees no reason to give it up as the country has benefited a lot from this principle.

The Valdai Discussion Club meeting is an international framework for leading experts from around the world to discuss global issues. The theme of this year's meeting is The Future in Progress: Shaping the World of Tomorrow. Endit