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Wang Yi Talks about Three Keywords on China's Exchanges with Other Developing Countries
2022-06-03 23:19

On June 3, 2022 local time, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Foreign Minister of Papua New Guinea Soroi Eoe jointly met the press in Port Moresby. Wang Yi introduced three "keywords" on China's exchanges with Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and other developing countries.

First, "treat each other as equals". China treats every country equally, especially small and medium-sized ones. Given China's own historical experience, we fully understand the extraordinary value and importance of "equality" for developing countries, especially small and medium-sized ones. Certain major countries wantonly clamor for "a position of strength" or talk about being a world leader from time to time. Such moves are a far cry from what China does. There should be greater democracy in international relations, and world affairs should be managed by all countries through consultation. Greater democracy should be defined only by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and universally recognized international law, rather than the so-called "rules" formulated by a certain major country or a small number of countries on their own.

Second, "help each other". Developing countries, especially small and medium-sized ones, have a weak status and not much say in the international arena. This is the current international political reality. To safeguard the common interests of developing countries and defend the small and medium-sized countries' legitimate rights to development, developing countries must help and support each other, pool and amplify our common messages, coordinate and strengthen our common positions, and firmly and consistently oppose all power politics and bullying acts. Only by doing so can the world gradually become more balanced and truly harmonious.

Third, "focus on development". Development, revitalization, improving people's well-being and enhancing national strength are the common missions and pressing tasks of all developing countries and small and medium-sized countries. The 21st century is the high time for us to develop. We should take deepening economic and trade cooperation as the theme and goal of our exchanges, and jointly remove all obstacles that hinder us from speeding up development. At the same time, we call on western countries to increase input and support for development, make more contributions through concrete actions, and refrain from fixating on geopolitical competition and using small and medium-sized countries as pawns for political exploitation. China is always open-minded about carrying out tripartite or multi-party cooperation in PICs or other developing countries with interested developed countries to achieve win-win outcomes.

Wang Yi stressed that China's diplomatic style differs from that of traditional great powers. What we hope to achieve is common development and revitalization with other developing countries. What we are advancing is major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. What we are striving for is to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

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