Joint efforts ought to be made to safeguard regional stability by safety and legislation enforcement collaboration to handle varied dangers and challenges, the Xinhua assertion stated, including that China’s management pledged to spice up people-to-people exchanges.
Xi addressed the assembly simply days earlier than his anticipated coming visits to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia, all vital neighbours for China.
China is amongst a gaggle of nations with essentially the most neighbours on the earth, sharing land borders with 14 nations – a distinction it shares with Russia – whereas going through eight different close by international locations, together with US allies Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.
The Indo-Pacific area, the place China is situated, consists of the disputed South China Sea, which has grow to be a serious supply of stress in a geopolitical chess recreation between the Asian nation and the US.
“Our nation has huge territory and lengthy borders, which makes the encircling area an vital basis for attaining growth and prosperity, a key space for safeguarding nationwide safety, the first ingredient in coordinating general diplomatic work, and the essential driver in constructing a group of a shared future for mankind,” the assertion stated.
This text was first printed on SCMP.
