China pursues an independent and peaceful foreign
policy directed toward peace. The basic objectives of this
policy are to safeguard the independence and sovereignty of
the country, strive to create a long-standing and favorable
international environment for China’s reform, opening
to the outside world and modernization drive, safeguard
world peace and promote common development.
China’s independent and peaceful foreign
policy has the following major components:
—Adhering to independence. China decides
on its approaches and policies regarding international
issues independently. In international affairs, China shall
decide its own stand according to the rights and wrongs of
an affair, shall never yield to pressure from any big
countries, and shall not form alliances with any major power
or group of nations.
—Safeguarding world
peace. China shall neither take part in any arms race, nor
engage in military expansion. China shall adhere to opposing
hegemonism, power politics and aggressive expansion in any
form; and adhere to opposing the infringement by any country
on other countries’ sovereignty and territorial
integrity or interfering in other countries’ internal
affairs on the excuse of ethnic, religious or human rights
issues.
—Establishing friendly and
cooperative relations. China is willing to establish and
develop friendly and cooperative relations with all
countries on the basis of the following five principles:
mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity,
mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each
other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit,
and peaceful coexistence. China shall not decide its
relations with other countries according to social or
ideological systems.
—Developing
good-neighborly relations. China actively develops friendly
relations with its surrounding countries, safeguards the
peace and stability of the region, and promotes economic
cooperation at the regional level. China maintains that the
disputes concerning borders, territory and territorial
waters left over by history be solved through dialogues and
talks so as to seek fair and reasonable solutions. If a
dispute cannot be solved right away, it may be put aside for
the time being, and common ground be sought while reserving
differences. An unsolved dispute should not affect normal
relations between the relevant countries.
—Strengthening unity and cooperation
with developing countries. China has always taken it as the
basis of its foreign policy to strengthen unity and
cooperation with developing countries. China has
consistently attached great importance to developing
all-round friendly and cooperative relations with the Third
World countries, actively seeking mutually complementary
economic, trade, scientific and technological cooperative
channels, strengthening consultation and cooperation with
them on international issues, and jointly safeguarding the
rights and interests of developing countries.
—Opening to the outside world. China
opens to developed countries as well as to developing
countries. On the basis of equality and mutual benefit,
China actively conducts extensive international cooperation
to promote common development. As the largest developing
country in the world and a permanent member of the UN
Security Council, China is willing to make unremitting
efforts for world peace and development, and the
establishment of a new peaceful, stable, fair and reasonable
international political and economic order.
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