This article**: People's Daily Online.
Munich, February 18 (Reporter Zhang Huizhong) The 60th Munich Security Conference (Munich Security Conference) was held in Munich, Germany, from February 16 to 18. At the sub-forum on "Strengthening Defense: Security in the Indo-Pacific Region" held on the 17th, Fu Ying, former Vice Minister, spoke as a guest and participated in the discussion.
At the forum, Fu Ying said that in the past few decades, Asian countries have generally achieved economic growth. In 2023, Asia's GDP will reach 40% of the world's GDP, compared to 15% in the 90s. She believes that everyone should cherish the long-term peace in Asia even more.
Fu Ying shared her personal experience of how ASEAN plays a central role in regional cooperation and is supported by China, and how the framework for regional dialogue and cooperation has gradually grown. She said that Asian countries have forged bonds of trust through years of patient and sincere dialogue, and have opened up multi-level economic cooperation and built a sense of common security in terms of security. The signing of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) reflects the spirit of trust and cooperation between China and ASEAN countries, and negotiations on the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea are underway.
Talking about the Asia-Pacific policy of the United States, Fu Ying said that after the Cold War, the United States first focused on the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, and then engaged in the war on terrorism, and did not pay attention to peace, stability and economic prosperity in the Asian region. An important reason why the United States is now shifting its strategic focus to Asia is that it has seen Asia's economic success, the most important of which is China's rapid development. However, the strategy pursued by the United States after its "pivot to Asia" is not to integrate into the peaceful development of the region, but to try to reverse the trend of regional development, which has caused many countries to worry.
Fu Ying said that China opposes the establishment of small multilateral security mechanisms in the Asian region, and these exclusive security mechanisms do not conform to the way of thinking of common security and are not conducive to regional stability.
At the forum, Fu Ying also explained Taiwan, the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula.