Data map. On January 10, a distant guest came to Beijing, and he was also the first foreign country to be welcomed by China this year.
Looking at the press release of the Xinhua News Agency, when meeting with China's top leader, this foreign ** said with emotion: I am very honored to bring a number of important cabinet ministers to China for the first state visit, becoming the first foreign head of state ...... received by China this year
He is the Maldivian ** Muiz.
I used to say that the first time in life always has a special meaning; For the first time as a politician, it also sends a meaningful message.
China's diplomacy in 2024 has begunOn the same day, the Chinese leader also had a phone call with Finland ......
This is a wonderful start, but this year is obviously not going to be an easy year, just like the past 2023, if you have to sum it up, I think it can be described in eight words: ups and downs, wonderful.
In his eyes, 2023 is a year of major and far-reaching changes in international relations, a year of solid progress in Chinese-style modernization, and a year of pioneering and harvesting of China's diplomacy.
He summed up the six highlights, each of which was eye-catching. These six highlights are also six aspects, if you are specific to things, I think there are at least 10 things.
1. Under the mediation of China, Saudi Arabia and Iran, two old enemies, shook hands and made peace in Beijing. Before his death, Kissinger lamented that China's emergence as a peacemaker had "changed the pattern of world diplomacy."
2. The meeting between the heads of state of China and the United States in California was very timely and successful, and it also made the crisis-ridden Sino-US relations begin to stop falling and stabilize.
3. The BRICS is expanding, even if Argentina is not counted, the 5 BRICS countries have become 10 BRICS, and the BRICS is rewriting the world pattern.
4. New breakthroughs in peripheral diplomacy, in the context of the United States and Japan winning over Vietnam, China-Vietnam relations have been further enhanced, and now it is time to work together to build a community with a shared future.
5. China-Australia relations have taken a turn for the better, which is impressive.
6. The five Central Asian countries went to Xi'an to participate in the first China-Central Asia Summit. I remember that some netizens joked that so many Central Asian leaders gathered in Xi'an, and the last time was the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago.
7. The 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was successfully held, which is China's most important home diplomacy in 2023.
8. Receiving Macron and listening to the mountains and rivers in Guangzhou is a diplomatic story and a diplomatic art.
9. Go to Russia for a visit and talk to Zelensky. No one can underestimate China's unique role in mediating the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
10. Unilateral visa exemption for six countries sends a signal that China is more active and open up. Many people sighed: This is the bearing of a big country.
Of course, these are my personal opinions. But in such a challenging year, China's diplomacy in 2023 is indeed impressive, and comrades on the diplomatic front are not easy and simple.
What will happen this year?
Frankly speaking, there will definitely be no shortage of challenges, there will definitely be high winds and waves, and even stormy waves cannot be ruled out.
In particular, 2024 is the first year for many countries, and the United States, Russia, Indonesia, Mexico, etc., will usher in elections and even major variables.
Specific to China's diplomacy, let's have a few highlights this year.
1. How will Sino-US relations go? The United States will definitely make China continue to lie down and test the diplomatic wisdom of China and the United States.
2. What about China-EU relations? For China, it is necessary to stabilize Europe; For Europe, there is no way to decouple from China.
3. Can Sino-Japanese relations turn around? It's been hovering at the trough for many years, and it's time for a change.
4. The South China Sea will definitely not be calm, there are big countries that sow discord, and the Philippines has its own small abacus, what should we do? How to fight resolutely?
5. And tricky India. Really, Modi, Modi, China and India may not be friends, but to become enemies is definitely a historic mistake.
6. The peninsula is turbulent, and there is war and chaos at the doorstep, which is always not a good thing.
7. After the historic expansion of BRICS, what are the new highlights?
8. Will China make a new breakthrough in mediating the conflict between Russia and Ukraine?
9. In the chaos in the Middle East, China can do something, of course, it must be more cautious, there is a historical hole.
10. Looking forward to more open measures to cheer up the country and applaud the world.
Of course, this is also my personal opinion, many questions are not answers, highlights are not highlights, not to mention, there will definitely be waves of black swans and gray rhinos this year.
In the first week of 2024, tsunamis, terrorist attacks, plane collisions, and wars ......It has been foreshadowed that this year will certainly not be an ordinary year.
The greatest certainty in this world is its uncertainty. But China is to use our own certainty to hedge against the uncertainty of the world.
In today's China, as long as we work together and handle our own affairs well, what difficulties cannot be overcome?
The outside world "unexpectedly discovered" this time that the first foreign head of state received by China this year was Muiz of the Maldives. And you must know that in the past, the Maldives** must have been ...... to India first and then to China
The world has undergone major changes unseen in a century, and conventions are no longer conventions. China is changing, and the world pattern is also changing, major and far-reaching changes.
China's diplomacy in 2024 has begun
The play must begin with a prologue, but the prologue is not yet the climax.
*: Niu Danqin WeChat public account).