Opinion | 15th five-year plan charts a course for China’s modernisation

Opinion | 15th five-year plan charts a course for China’s modernisation

The most important outcome of the Communist Party of China’s fourth plenum, held last month in Beijing, was the review and adoption of the “Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development”. Leading the drafting team in person, Communist Party General Secretary and Chinese President…

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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi hails ‘multipolar world’ ahead of Trump-Xi talks at Apec

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi hails ‘multipolar world’ ahead of Trump-Xi talks at Apec

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said “a multipolar world is emerging”, positioning Beijing’s latest vision for global governance as a unifying and stabilising framework at a time of increasing turbulence and Washington-driven unilateralism. Speaking in Beijing on Monday, Wang also called for “an end to politicising economic and trade issues, artificially fragmenting global markets, and…

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Xi Jinping's Global Quartet - China Media Project

Xi Jinping’s Global Quartet – China Media Project

The front page of today’s People’s Daily announces the publication of a major policy article by Chinese leader Xi Jinping (习近平) in the party’s flagship theoretical journal Qiushi (求是), bundling together what the party now characterizes as “Four Great Global Initiatives” (四大全球倡议) — a quartet of related solutions for international challenges. The article, titled “Promoting…

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China urged to create unique foreign relations knowledge system, reject Western concepts

China urged to create unique foreign relations knowledge system, reject Western concepts

This system, distinct from Western frameworks, would more effectively explain China’s foreign policy and global role to the world, according to Zheng Yongnian, dean of the school of public policy at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. In an interview published on Monday by People’s Daily, Zheng emphasised the strategic urgency of intellectual autonomy as…

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