From December 27th to 28th, the ** Foreign Affairs Work Conference was held in Beijing. General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Military Commission attended the meeting and delivered important speeches. Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng attended the meeting. Source: Xinhua News Agency.
Straight News: The two-day foreign affairs work conference was held in Beijing, and an important speech was made
Guan Yao, Special Commentator: This is an extremely important top-level meeting held at the end of the year, and all the members of the Seventh Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and the Vice President of the People's Republic of China are in attendance. This is also the first time in 5 years, the first foreign affairs work conference was held again, at a critical juncture when major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics has entered a new stage of greater achievements in the new journey, the ruling party has fully empowered major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics with the highest standards, and given a clear roadmap and approach for doing a good job in major-country diplomacy in the current and future periods, and the top leader will make top-level guidance and comprehensive deployment.
In this sense, the successful convening of the foreign affairs work conference is a concentrated expression of the national will in the field of diplomacy of major countries, and it is also an authoritative and thorough comprehensive explanation of the core concept and profound connotation of diplomatic thought, as well as the world view, order and values of the Chinese Communists it represents.
We also know that the most important achievement of the first foreign affairs work conference five years ago was to establish the guiding position of the first diplomatic thought. The just-concluded Foreign Affairs Work Conference clearly requires that China's foreign affairs work should be guided by the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, especially the Thought on Diplomacy, in line with the goals and tasks of Chinese-style modernization, and focus on the main line of promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind to create a new situation in major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. Today, the US Bloomberg news agency gave a striking mention to the headline of the ** foreign affairs work conference, Chinese-style diplomacy, Chinese-style diplomacy, I see this US media, I read and understood the 2,800-word long telegram published by Xinhua News Agency last night. In my opinion, if the outside world really wants to understand and grasp the rich connotation of China's diplomatic thought, and to look forward to what China's diplomacy will do next, it is better to make efforts to read and read this blockbuster telegram of Xinhua News Agency.
Straight News: **The Foreign Affairs Work Conference emphasized that China's development is facing new strategic opportunities, and major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics will enter a new stage where it can do more
Guan Yao, Special Commentator: Diplomacy, the most intuitive understanding, is to communicate with foreign countries, then we also know that the outside world is not at peace now, and there is a high probability that it will enter the New Year "with two large-scale wars that are burning", and the "New Year's ceasefire" that many people are looking forward to has not come. For the international environment facing China, the Foreign Affairs Work Conference has a clear judgment that the world is undergoing great changes, the changes in the world, the times, and history are unfolding in an unprecedented way, and the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change. However, it corresponds to the "three constants" of the general direction, the general trend and the general logic: that is, the general direction of human development and progress will not change, the general logic of the tortuous progress of world history will not change, and the general trend of the international community sharing a common destiny will not change. How can great power diplomacy be more effective?What are the important directions and power space?The meeting proposed that it is necessary to firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests around the central tasks of the party and the state, shape the new pattern of relations between China and the world, and raise China's international influence, appeal and shaping power to a new height. In my view, creating a more favorable international environment externally and providing more solid strategic support internally are the internal and external forces for major country diplomacy to enhance its shaping power, and it is also an important point to achieve more achievements.
However, I have also noticed that some overseas ** have simplified this shaping power of great power diplomacy as China's pursuit of so-called international power, push for global power, and even more overseas ** have deliberately amplified the unilateral emphasis on the need to carry forward the spirit of struggle. The all-round major-country diplomacy in the new era emphasizes the spirit of struggle, as well as self-confidence, self-reliance, openness and inclusiveness, and the top leaders have repeatedly reiterated that reform and opening up is the key to determining the success or failure of Chinese-style modernization. In the face of a series of major issues and major challenges facing the world today, China advocates an equal and orderly multipolar world and an inclusive economic globalization. In this process, there will be breaking, there will be struggle, and at the same time, there will be standing and construction. What it presents is the Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style of great power diplomacy.
Straight News: Today's spokesperson Mao Ning said at the year-end press conference that a total of 229 press conferences have been held this year, and I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone and meet you next year
Guan Yao, Special Commentator: I think this is a numerical testimony to the fact that major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics aims to be more effective, and no major country in the world can hold press conferences with such intensity and frequency to speak out to the world. In my opinion, the diplomats of the great powers are the hardest working people who are fighting at the forefront of diplomacy. Mao Ning made an appointment to meet next year, and after the top-level deployment and comprehensive mobilization were made at the first foreign affairs work conference, the outside world has reason to maintain high expectations for the new situation and new deeds of major country diplomacy next year.
At the same time, it should be pointed out that as the world looks forward to the New Year, some people are extremely uneasy about a hidden risk, that is, the so-called "Trump risk". The plain state is, if Trump comes back, he returns to the White House, what will happen to the United States, what will the world do?Will he pull back from the crowd again, withdraw from the agreement reached at the Dubai climate conference, and engage in various other withdrawals?Of course, two states in the United States have announced that they will not be eligible to vote, but the worries and anxieties of the outside world have not been substantially alleviated. Although the lawsuit is entangled, although he was taken a headshot of imprisonment for the first time, these do not seem to be enough to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination, and his former **negotiator Lighthizer has been making a big deal**, if he comes to power again, the main line of the United States' ** policy will be to withdraw from the group and "decoupling", that is, to stand on the opposite side of equal and orderly multipolarity, and to stand on the opposite side of inclusive economic globalization. The chaos of American governance and the chaos of elections can reach this point, although the "return of Trump" is not a certainty, but the "Trump risk" is indeed impossible to ignore. This is the true meaning of national governance: "no contrast, no harm".
Author丨Guan Yao, special commentator of Shenzhen Satellite TV's "Live Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan".