China.org.cn | October 31, 2022
Phoenix TV:
What is China's goal in the world? Recently, there has been some concern that the wider difference between China and the West could divide the world into different camps and endanger the international order. What's your response to these comments?
Ma Zhaoxu:
You asked about China's foreign policy goal. The purpose and goal of China's foreign policy is quite clear, that is, to safeguard world peace, advance common development, and promote the building of a human community with a shared future.
Today, our world, times and history are changing in ways never seen before. The historical trend of peace, development and win-win cooperation is unstoppable. At the same time, human society also faces many unprecedented challenges. Some forces in the world are indeed going against the trend of history and cling to the Cold War mentality and play the zero-sum game. They are keen on seeking exclusive blocs, waging a new "Cold War," drawing ideological lines to stoke block confrontation, and pursuing hegemony, which is the biggest threat to the world order. A divided world serves no one's interests, and block confrontation will only push the world to a dead end.
Building a human community with a shared future is the way forward for all the peoples of the world. China stays committed to building a world of lasting peace through dialogue and consultation, a world of common security for all through collaboration and shared benefits, a world of common prosperity through win-win cooperation, an open and inclusive world through exchanges and mutual learning, and a clean and beautiful world through green and low-carbon development. All countries should advocate humanity's common values of peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom, respect the diversity of civilizations around the world and jointly tackle global challenges.
China stays committed to taking concrete actions to promote the building of a human community with a shared future. Under the personal guidance and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping, substantial progress has been made in all fields and directions in building a human community with a shared future, including across countries and regions and through bilateral to multilateral actions. The significant Belt and Road Initiative proposed by the general secretary has become a popular international public good and international cooperation platform. The Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative put forward by the general secretary injected new impetus into maintaining world peace and promoting common development. China firmly safeguards the international system with the United Nations at its core, the international order underpinned by international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and promotes global governance in a more just and equitable direction.
The global pandemic of COVID-19 and the Ukraine crisis further demonstrate the significance of the truth of the vision of building a human community with a shared future. We will firmly stand on the right side of history and the side of the progress of human civilization; remain committed to promoting peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefit; promote our own development while firmly safeguarding world peace and development; and better safeguard world peace and development with our own development. Thank you!