"Spring Diplomacy" is booming again. Frequent interactions between China and foreign countries send three signals

　　China News Service, Beijing, March 28 (Xie Yanbing and Zeng Yue) As spring blooms, China's diplomacy is once again booming. In the past few days, dignitaries from Dominica, Nauru, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Netherlands and other countries have visited China one after another, and business people from various countries have also set off a new wave of "visiting China". From the frequent interactions between China and foreign countries, the outside world can capture multiple signals.

　　First, open our arms to share opportunities with the world.

　　At present, economic globalization is encountering headwinds and there are constant noises about "decoupling and breaking links". The outside world is always paying attention to how China, the world's second largest economy, will choose. In the recent frequent diplomatic activities, China has clearly released a signal that it will continue to expand its opening up and cooperate with the world.

　　When meeting with representatives from the U.S. business community and strategic academic circles, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized that China's reforms will not stop and its opening up will not stop. "We are planning and implementing a series of major measures to comprehensively deepen reforms." When meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Xi Jinping emphasized that China will always uphold the concept of win-win, continue to expand high-level opening up, and share development dividends with all parties.

　　This is what China says and what it does. Recently, the 2024 Annual Conference of the China Development Forum and the 2024 Annual Conference of the Boao Forum for Asia have been held one after another, providing an important window for the outside world to understand China's opening-up policy. Business people from various countries gather in China to carry out "business travel" and experience the opportunities of opening up. On March 19, Chinese officials announced an action plan to make greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment, which is seen as another concrete action to promote high-level opening up.

　　China's door is opening wider and wider, foreign parties have cast "votes of confidence" one after another, and foreign companies continue to increase investment in China. As one of the high-profile foreign company executives at high-end forums, Apple CEO Cook said that he will strengthen long-term cooperative relationships with Chinese supply chain partners. Kallenius, Chairman of the Board of Directors of German Mercedes-Benz Group AG, also said that Mercedes-Benz will firmly expand investment in China. Representatives of the U.S. business community made it clear that U.S. companies appreciate China's recent series of important measures to further reform and open up, and "will unswervingly continue to deepen our efforts in China."

　　Second, we insist that all countries, big or small, are equal.

　　"Treating others equally is a distinctive character of China's diplomacy. China has always maintained that countries, regardless of big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor, are all equal members of the international community." On March 25, Xi Jinping met with Nauru President Adiang. So said. This diplomatic character has been clearly reflected in this intensive visit.

　　Adieng's visit to China is also his first visit to China since the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Nauia in January this year. The two countries have embarked on a two-way journey across the Pacific. Nauru, located in the central Pacific Ocean, has a land area of ​​only 21.1 square kilometers and is the smallest island country in the world. There is a clear gap between China and Namibia in terms of population, land area, economic development level, etc. However, China emphasizes that "cooperation, no matter how big or small, as long as it is sincere, will yield fruitful results", and the concept of equal treatment is reflected in this.

　　Like Nauru, Dominica, with a land area of ​​751 square kilometers, is also a small island developing country. This year coincides with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Dominica. During Dominica Prime Minister Skerrit's visit to China, he and Chinese leaders discussed friendship and cooperation. Skerrit said bluntly, “China’s support and cooperation can be seen everywhere in Dominica.” In the eyes of the outside world, meeting new friends and meeting old friends in the "spring diplomacy" craze has become the latest epitome of China's practice of equality for all countries, big or small.

　　Zhu Feng, executive dean of the School of International Relations at Nanjing University, analyzed that China has shown that it attaches great importance to the concerns and demands of small island developing countries in the field of climate change. Each has its own place in the polarized system.

　　The third is the weight of peripheral diplomacy.

　　In China's diplomatic layout, peripheral areas are always given top priority. In this wave of diplomatic upsurge, the visits of political leaders from Sri Lanka and Nepal have made the outside world more clearly aware of the weight of neighboring diplomacy in China's diplomacy.

　　"Sri Lanka and Nepal are both important neighboring countries of China. China and Sri Lanka and China and Nepal have traditional friendship, and high-level visits between the two sides are relatively frequent." Liu Qing, deputy director of the China Institute of International Studies, said that dignitaries from neighboring countries visited China after the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. China is conducive to understanding China's work plan and development direction this year and working together to promote cooperation.

　　As he said, during this visit, China's practical cooperation with Sri Lanka and Nepal has been further deepened. China and Nepal agreed to reopen 14 traditional border trade points and strengthen practical cooperation in trade, investment, tourism and other fields. China and Sri Lanka signed a number of bilateral cooperation documents on trade, investment, customs, and development cooperation. Experts believe that pragmatic cooperation measures will not only benefit the development of both parties, but will also continue to provide impetus for regional economic growth.

　　The outside world has particularly noticed that the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence have become important keywords in the communication between the leaders of China and Sri Lanka and China and Nepal. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. This important principle not only contributes Eastern wisdom to the correct handling of state-to-state relations, but also allows the outside world to more clearly observe China's consistent persistence in peripheral diplomacy.

　　“The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence are basic norms of international relations and basic principles of international law born in Asia. The latest interactions between China and Sri Lanka and China and Nepal show that China will adhere to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and share peace with neighboring countries through mutually beneficial cooperation. Stability, development and prosperity," Zhu Feng said. (over)