″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…     

CAFIU Delegation at ″Understanding Myanmar″ International Seminar

TheInternationalSeminaron″UnderstandingMyanmar″washeldinYangonbyMyanmarInsti-tuteofStrategicandInternationalStudiesduringJanuary27-30.Morethan40representativesfrom17countriesattendedtheseminar.TheyareUNrepresentativesinMyanmarandexperts,scholars,officialsandsomediplomatsfromASEAN,SouthAsiaandwestcountries.PrimeMinisterGeneralKhinNyuntdeliveredthekeynotespeech.HighrankingcivilandmilitaryofficialsofMyanmarwerepresentattheopeningceremony,suchasLt-GenSoeWin,Secretary-1oftheStatePea…     

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…     

Delegation of the ″Moral Re-armament″ (Initiatives of Change) Swiss Foundation Visiting China

AttheinvitationoftheChineseAssociationForInternationalUnderstanding(CAFIU),adelegationofthe″MoralRe-armament″(MRA)SwissFoun-dationheadedbyMr.CornelioSommaruga,formerPresidentoftheInternationalCommitteeoftheRedCross(ICRC)andPresidentoftheInterna-tionalAssociationofMRA,paidafriendlyvisittoChinafromSeptember20to30.DuringtheirstayinChina,thedelegationmetwithMs.LiShuzheng,formerMinisteroftheInternationalDe-partmentoftheCentralCommitteeoftheCommu-nistPartyofChina,AdvisorofCAFI…     

Silver Lining in Changing International Situation——An overall review of international situation in 2003

Theyear2003witnessedastillcomplicatedinter鄄nationalsituationinwhichtheprocessoftransitionfromanoldpatterntoanewpatternandfromanoldordertoaneworderwasconspicuouslydifficultandtortuous.Wecouldsaythat″onetheme″熏″twomainscourges″熏″threepostures″熏″fourtrends″and″fivehot-spots″constitutethemainfeaturesofthedevel鄄opmentandchangeoftheworldsituationinthepastyear.However熏thetendencyandprospectofthefu鄄tureinternationalrelationsstillremainunknown.Oneunchangedtheme.Inearly1980s熏ComradeDe…     

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…     

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…     

Enhance International Cooperation and Build Peace and Prosperity Together——Speech by Mr. Li Chengren, Executive Vice-President of CAFIU （Okinawa, Japan, November 15, 2003）

Mr.Chairman熏Ladies熏gentlemenandfriends押Ontheoccasionoftheopeningofthe″5thInterna鄄tionalConferenceforPeace熏DisarmamentandSym鄄biosisinAsian-Pacific″inOkinawa熏Iwouldliketoextend熏onbehalfofmycolleagues熏andinmyownname熏warmcongratulationstotheconference熏andheartfeltthankstotheJapanesecommitteeandthefriendsofOkinawafortheirthoughtfularrange鄄mentsandwarmhospitality熏andourgreetingstothestatesmen熏expertsandscholarspresentherefromothercountries.Thisisthefirstmeetingoftheconferenceint…     

Some Aspects of International Anti-terrorism

After″9·11″attackinternationalcommunitywereextremelyconcernedoverinternationalterroristac-tivitiesandanti-terrorism.Becauseofitsseriousimpactandseveredamageinternationalterrorismhaschangedfromordinarynon-traditionalthreatto″internationaldanger″inthenewcentury.Anti-ter-rorismasahardandcomplextaskbecameanotherimportantfeatureofthechangedinternationalsitua-tionaftertheColdWar.Firstastheincreasingthreatofinternationalterrorismispoundingattraditionalsecurityitisnecessarytostrengthentheinterna…     

Impression of the NGOs in Norway and Germany

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

Develop Sino-Japanese Friendship and Promote Peace and Prosperity in Asia and the World（Address by Council Member Zhang Zhiming at the 53^rd Annual Meeting of Japan-China Friendship Association on May 22）

MycolleaguesandIfeelverypleasedtohavethisopportunitytoattendthe53rdannualmeetingofJapan-ChinaFriendshipAssociationinOsakaheretoday.WesincerelythankourJapanesefriendsforyourhospitalityandmeticulousarrangement.IfeelverygladtovisitJapanagainafter16yearssincemyfirstvisit.Overthepast30yearssincenormalizationofdiplomatictiesbetweenChinaandJapanontheprinciplesdefinedin″Sino-JapaneseJointStatement″″Sino-JapaneseTreatyofPeaceandFriendship″and″Sino-JapaneseJointDeclaration″bilateralrelati…     

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…     

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…     

Post Iraq War International Security Order

AlthoughtheIraqwarlaunchedbytheUnitedStatesendedoverhalfayearagothepopularcon-cernforthewarandIraqiissueshavenotdimin-ished.Itremainsthefocusofattention.Itgaveustoomanylessonstodrawandponder.Amongotherthingshowtobuildinternationalsecurityordertomaintainworldpeaceandstabilityisanimportantandpressingsubjectforconsiderationanddiscus-sion.TheImpactoftheWarontheInternationalSecurityOrderJustlike″9·11″incidenttheIraqwarcausedaprecedenteddisruptionontheinternationalsecurityorderanditsimpactsw…     

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…     

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

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

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

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

Seminar on "International Security Order after the Iraq War" Held in Beijing

Aninternationalseminaron″InternationalSecurityOrderaftertheIraqWar″jointlysponsoredbytheIn-ternationalDepartmentoftheCentralCommitteeoftheCommunistPartyofChinaIDCPCCCtheChineseAssociationforInternationalUnderstandingCAFIUandtheFriedrichEbertStiftungFESofGermanywasheldinBeijingfrom9thto10thOctober2003.ParticipantstotheseminarincludedMr.Sharpingfor-merGermanDenfenceMinisterMr.ArnoldChairmanoftheDefenceCommitteeoftheParliamentaryGroupoftheGermanSocialDemocraticPartyMr.Faner…