Impression of the NGOs in Norway and Germany

Attheinvitationofthe″MoralRe-armament″Nor-wegianFoundationandtheFriedrich-EbertFoun-dationofGermanythedelegationoftheChineseAssociationforInternationalUnderstandingCAFI-UheadedbyVice-PresidentMr.ZhuDachengpaidavisittoNorwayandGermanyfromMay17to27.DuringthevisitwedidsomeresearchonthestateofNGOsinthetwocountries.Throughthevisitwehavefoundthattheso-called″matureNGOsphenomenonoftheWest″alsocalledphenomenonofthecivilsocietyisinfactanimportantoutcomeoftheevolutionofthecapi-talistpoli…     

Maintain the Friendship and Communication

Invited by the Japan-China Association (JCA), the CAFIU publication delegation visited Japan in December 11-18, 2005. While in Japan, the delegation respectively called upon Takeshi Noda, President of the JCA and member of the Lower House from the Liberal…     

The Future and Influence of the European Common Foreign and Security Policy

AftertheColdWarespeciallyafter″9·11″incidenttheinternationalsituationhasprofoundlychangedandthepoliticalturbulencehasintensified.Securi-tyissuesaresoprominentthatithasbecomeoneofthetopicsfordiscussionworldwidearousinggreatattentionfromallcountriesespeciallythebigpow-ers.InthisregardtheEUhasbeenmakingagreatefforttoworkoutitscommonforeignandsecuritypolicyandcarrieditforwardasthefocalpointintheconstructionofintegration.IwillputforwardthreepointsinregardtotheprospectsofEUcom-monforeignandsecu…     

Address at the ″Seminar on China-Thailand Culture and Economic Prosperity″

DistinguishedPrincessSirindhorn:LadiesandGentlemen,Dearfriends:I'mverydelightedtohavetheopportunitytoattendSeminaron″China-ThailandCultureandEconomicProsperity″inthisbeautifulcityofBangkok.I'dliketoextendheartfeltthankstoourThaifriends.AtthesametimeIwishtheseminaracompletesuc-cess.ChinaandThailandarefriendlyneighborswithlong-standingtiesanddeepfriendshipbetweenthetwocountriesandthetwopeoples.Therearenoproblemsleftoverbyhistorynorconflictsofimme-diateinterestsonlyfriendlycooperationsbe…     

Exchanging Experience and Promoting Cooperation——On China-German Seminar of "Women''''s Status and Roles in the New Era

FromNov.16-232003adele-gationofGermanHeinrich-BllFoundationledbyMs.BabaraUnmuessigpaidavisittoChinaandattendedtheChina-GermanSeminarinBeijingunderthethemeof″Women'sStatusandRolesintheNewEra″whichwasjointlyheldbytheChineseAsso-ciationforInternationalUnder-standingCAFIUtheHeinrich-BllFoundationandtheInterna-tionalDepartmentofAll-ChinaWomen'sFederation.Mr.ZhuDachengVice-PresidentofCAFIUpresidedovertheopen-ingandclosingceremonies.Mme.LiShuzhengAdvisortoCAFIUdeliveredspeeches…     

The Situation and Prospect of Implementation of the Follow-up Measures of World Conference on Women in China——Speech at Sino-German Seminar on Women’s Status and Roles in the New Era

AfterthesuccessfulconveningoftheFourthWorldConferenceonWomen熏1995andNon-GovernmentOrganization穴NGO雪ForumonWomen熏Beijing'95熏theissueofwomenhasarousedfurtherconcernfromtheinternationalcommunity.Inthepasteightyears熏theChinesegovernmenthasmadeunremit鄄tingeffortstoimplement″BeijingDeclaration″and″PlatformforAction″tomatchitspromisewithac鄄tion.Asabiggestnon-governmentalwomen'sorga鄄nizationinChina熏theAll-ChinaWomen'sFedera鄄tion穴ACWF雪熏bygivingfullplaytoitsadvantagesoforgani…     

Views on How to Break the Deadlock in the Sino-Japanese Relations

Inrecentyears,duetotheexistenceoftoomuchmisinterpretationandmisunderstandingaswellasthelackofknowingandunderstandingeachotherbetweenChinaandJapan,theSino-Japaneserela-tionshavebeenoutofbalancebybeing″economi-callyhotandpoliticallycold″andbyhaving″warmresponsefromthenongovernmentalcirclesandcoldreactionfromthegovernments″.Atthesametimetherehasbeenanunprecedentedcrisisofconfi-dencesincethenormalizationofdiplomaticrela-tionsbetweenthetwocountries.Inordertobreakthecurrentdeadlock,bothsideshav…     

Summary of the Speech at the Seminar on "International Security Order after the Iraq War

Inthisgoldenseasonofautumntheseminaron″InternationalSecurityOrderaftertheIraqWar″whichissponsoredjointlybytheInternationalDepartmentoftheCPCCentralCommitteeIDCPCCCtheChineseAssociationforInternationalUnderstandingCAFIUandtheFriedrichEbertStiftungFESofGermanyisnowopentodayinBeijing.OnbehalfofCAFIUIwouldliketoextendmywarmwelcometoguestsMr.Scharpingandotherparticipantsandtoexpressmysincerecongratulationstotheopenningoftheseminar.Itisofgreatsignificancethattodayspecialistsoninte…     

Cries from the Civil Society——Impressions of the 4^th World Social Forum

FromJanuary16-21熏the4thWorldSocialForumwasheldinMumbaiIndia.Uptonow熏themovingcrowdsatthevenue熏thecriesfromtheworldvul鄄nerablegroupsandthesongsanddancescontainingdreamsforabetterfuturearestillechoinginmymind.TheForumattractedmorethan100熏000peoplefromover130countries熏with75%fromIndia.Underthethemeof″AnotherWorldisPossible″熏1067meet鄄ings熏panels熏seminarsorworkshopsofdifferentscaleswereheld.Theforumcoveredthefollowingmajortopicslike″Militarism熏WarandPeace″熏″Me鄄dia熏Informat…     

An Overall Review of the International Situation in the Second Quarter of 2004

I.AturbulentsituationinIraqhadkeptdeteri-oratingalongwithrepercussionsof″prisonerabuse″story.WhilepoliticalreconstructionmadesomeprogressdissociationappearedintheU.S.-ledallianceregardingstationingtroopsinIraq.CombatsbetweenIraqiclericmilitantsandforeigncoalitionforceswereexpandingandfiercefightingsoccurredinseveralmajorcities.MorethanonehundredAmericasoldiersdiedinAprilsettingasingle-monthrecordsinceIraqWarbrokeout.Ab-ductionofforeignhostagesroseoneafteranotheraccompaniedbyfrequentterro…     

Promoting Understanding and Friendship

Secretary-GeneralofCAFIUAttheinvitationoftheJean-JauresFoundationinFranceandtheFriedrich-EbertFoundationinGermany,adelegationoftheChineseAssociationforInternationalUnderstanding(CAFIU)headedbyMme.LiShuzheng,Vice-ChairwomanoftheForeignAffairsCommitteeoftheNationalPeople'sCongressandVice-PresidentofCAFIU,PaidavisittothetwoEuropeancountriesfromApril13to24,1999.Duringthevisit,thedelegationheldworkingtalkswiththeleadersofthetWoFoundationsandmadewide-rangingcontactswithpersonagesfr…     

Constitution of the Chinese Association for International Understanding

ChapterIGeneralRulesArticle1TheChineseAssociationforInternationalUnderstandingisanationalnon-govern-mentalorganization(NGO)inthePeople'sRepublicofChina.Article2TheAssociationiscalled″ZhongGuoGuoJiJiaoLiuXieHui″inChinese,or″JiaoLiuXieHui″forshort.ItsEnglishtranslationis″ChineseAssociationforInternationalUnderstanding″,andab-breviatedas″CAFIU″.Article3TheAssociationissponsoredbyandcomposedofvariousorganizations,politicalpar-ties,socialactivists,scholarsandprominentperson…     

On Some Problems and Trend of the World Security

The″９·１１″incidenthasbroughtaboutmanynewbewilderingphenomenoninthefieldofworldsecurity．Greatchangeshavealsotakenplacea－mongvariouscountriesinunderstandingofthreatstosecurityandinsubjectiveperceptionofsecurity．Countriesattheverycoreoftheinternationalcom－munitysuchastheUnitedStatesandcountriesonthemarginlikeAfghanistanlacksenseofsecurity．Whilepushingaheadwiththeglobalstrategyinanall－roundmannerandmakingeffortstomaintainitsinterestsabroad，theUScannoteffectivelysafe－guarditshomeland…     

An Overall Review of the International Situation in the Third Quarter of 2004

I.Iraqcontinuedtobeturbulent,andthepost-warreconstructioninIraqkepttough.Inthepastmonths,PresidentBushhadstrivedtodefendhisIraqipolicyasbefore.Butthechangeofthedo-mesticandinternationalsituationhadturnedmuchmoreadverselyagainsthispolicyonIraq.The″9·11″CommissionReportsaidthatnoevidenceshowedSaddamHussein'sregimehadgivenanydirectas-sistancetoterrorists.Whileconfrontedwiththepro-longedviolenceinIraq,Bushhadtoadmit,forthefirsttime,thathehadmiscalculatedthesituationinpostwarIraq,whereinsu…     

Carrying forward the Sino-Indian Friendship and Expanding Cooperation between the Two Countries

Sino-Indian relations have been improving at a fast pace in recent years. The year of 2006 is declared by the two governments as Sino-India Friendship Year. The two countries enjoyed long-term friendship in history, but also suffered short period of setba…     

Speech at the Meeting of Chinese and Japanese NGO Leaders

RespectedJapanesefriends，ComradesandFriends，Wearegatheringheretodayontheoccasionofthe１stanniversaryof″TheDeclarationforSino－JapanesePeople＇sFriendshipintheNewCentury″andthe３０thanniversaryofthenormalizationofdiplomaticrelationsbetweenChinaandJapan．Therefore，Iwouldliketoexpressmycongratula－tionsandwishthismeetingacompletesuccess．Ibelievethatitwouldbeimportantforustotakethisopportunitytoreviewthehistoryofthefriendlyrelationsandcooperationbetweenusandfindoutourimportantexperienc…     

Non-governmental Organizations in the Western Countries

Humansocietyisnowundergoingprofoundchangesagainstthebackdropofrapiddevelop-mentofworldmulti-polarization,economicglobal-izationandinformationtechnologyrevolution.Thepresent-dayeraisfeaturedbyaworldwideemer-genceofnon-governmentalorganizations(NGOs),whichhasattractedmuchattentionfromvariouscountriesandtheinternationalcommunity.Itistruethatthepredictionofthe″21stcenturywouldbeacenturyofNGOs″remainstobetestifiedandprovedbyhistory.However,ithasbeenaninar-guablefactthatthestatus,roleandinfluenc…     

Peace,Development and Progress

Theinternationalsituationinthepastyearwascomplicatedandchangeable.TheUnitedStateswagedwaronIraq熏whichshockedtheworld鸦therelationshipamongtheworldpowershadundergonepro鄄foundchanges鸦therehadbeennewdivisionandrealignmentintherelationsacrosstheAtlantic鸦thebuildingof″LargeEurope″hadmaderapidprogress鸦theMiddle-EastsituationhadremainedunstablewithPalestineandIsraelstillgettingstuckinantroubledtimes鸦KoreaPeninsulanuclearissuehaddrawntheworldwideattention鸦UNwasregainingitsvigorafterhavin…     

″New Particles″ of the Changing World Situation

Theworldsituationasalwayscomplicatedandvolatilehasseensome″newparticles″afterthewaronIraq.Thisisaspecialwarthathasaffectedthewholeworld.ThecourseandconsequencesofthewarhaveexemplifiedthefeverpitchoftheU.S.u-nilateralismandtheheavycostthuspaidbytheU.S.Theyhavealsoresultedinthechangesofrela-tionsbetweenmajorpowersdeepeningthecontra-dictionsbetweenEuropeandtheU.S.inparticular.Furthermorethewaytodealwithotherregionalhotspotshasalsobeenaffectedandthestruggleforen-ergyhasbecomeevenfiercer.I.Th…     

U.S.,Europe and China in Russia''''s Foreign Policy

Regardingitsmilitarystrengthespeciallythenu-cleararsenalRussiaisstillmoreorlessaglobalpowercomparedwiththeU.S.Howeverintermsofthecomprehensivenationalstrengthitisatmostaregionalpowerrankingahead.ThreeyearsagoRussiawascalleda″second-classcountry″byPutin.AlthoughRussiapaysattentiontobothglobalandregionalissuesitconcernsmoreaboutthosehavingdirectbearingonitsnationalinterests.U.S.EuropeandChinaarevalueddifferentlyinRussia'sforeignaffairs.Nomatterwhatkindofroleeachofthemplaysleadingindispens…