The Latin Lineup Strengthening cooperation brings opportunities for China and Latin American countries

Distance is no longer a barrier to improving relations between countries. China and Latin American nations now have an opportunity to cooperate in a wider scope. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to Latin America presented an ideal moment to enhance China’s relationships with countries in the region. Observers believe that this visit will create momen-tum for the development of China-Latin America relations.     

Xi Jinping Meets with Leader of Japan＇s New Komeito Party

Xi Jinping Meets with Leader of Japan’s New Komeito Party On January 25, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping met with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the New Komeito Party, the smaller partner in Japan’s coalition government. Xi stressed that both sides should continue to improve the bilareral relationship in a sustained, healthy and stable way, addressing sensitive issues effectively and promptly. China’s     

INTEGRATION,GLOBALIZATION AND A BETTER WORLD

正President Xi reiterates China’s commitment to further opening up at the Boao forum Amid a rising tide of trade protectionism in some parts of the world,Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared that China will expand its opening up and continue to advance cooperation with its economic partners.     

What Can the World Expect From China?

正The core of the message to the outside world lay in President Xi Jinping’s assertion that the international community expects to hear China’s voice and be aware of China’s plans and China will not be absent from the world’s debate.This is not new,of course.For some time now,the world has recognized China as a force to be reckoned with.But in order to understand what the world can expect from China in 2016,it is useful to analyze the carefully considered content of the president’s     

Nuclear Security Commitments

正The Fourth Nuclear Security Summit—to be held in Washington,D.C.from March31 to April 1—will be of particular importance with regards to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s recent announcement that it will conduct a nuclear warhead explosion test and the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in March.President Xi Jinping will attend the summit and elaborate on the global nuclear security situation and China’s nuclear security concept.     

Exchanges

正Saudi Crown Prince Visits China Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Beijing on March 13,pledging to strengthen strategic partnership of the two countries.Hailing Saudi Arabia as China’s good friend,brother and partner in the Middle East and Gulf region,Xi said developing a bilaterally friendly relationship is China’s established and long-term policy,and that the two sides should maintain high-level exchanges and support     

Bilateral Relations Intac Amid Debt Issues

正The international community is ablaze with questions as the economic situation deteriorates in Venezuela.Will the country default on its debts?What will China—one of Venezuela’s top creditors—do in the face of this dilemma?China has already consulted with Venezuela on its debt issues.While it’s natural for the former to be worried about the latter’s problems,reaching the conclusion that these issues will twist the relationship between the two countries is a stretch.     

On Good Terms

China and the United States are obligated to create a new type of relationship for tomorrow’s world The U.S. presidential election of 2012 culminated with Barack Obama’s triumph, ensuring that Obama’s centerleft line focused on supporting middle and low-income Americans will continue in the next four years. Obama’s policy will have important implications for the global efforts     

A Comprehensive Monetary Policy Framework

Since the Four Comprehensives concept was unveiled in December 2014,President Xi Jinping has continued to reiterate the theory on a number of occasions.The Four Comprehensives have been a topicon everyone’s lips during the annual sessions of China’s National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in March. It shows a strong intention of Chinese leaders to design a new political framework that will shape the future of China not only in terms of political strategy, but with implications for monetary policy as well. This leads us to the relevance of the Four Comprehensives to G20 discussions-next year it will be China hosting the meetings,bringing global attention back to Beijing only shortly after last year’s APEC meetings.     

Vice Premier Huang Ju Meets with Mr. William Rhodes, Vice Chairman of Citigroup U.S.

Vice Premier Huang Ju spoke highly of the work Citigroup had done to promote cooperation in capital market and financial institutions be- tween the two countries, say- ing that as a friend of China, Mr. Rhodes has put forward many valuable suggestions on China’s economic development and financial reform. He hoped that this friendly relationship could be kept in the future. He also advised Mr. Rhodes to get more information from and ex- change views with the People’s Bank of China, the B…     

Voices

正"My current visit to Egypt,on the instructions of President Xi Jinping,is to show China’s i rm support for the Egyptian government and people,and to express China’s sincere desire to deepen mutually benei cial cooperation between China and Egypt,"said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a meeting with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt at the Presidential Palace in Cairo on August 3.Before the talk he conveyed President Xi’s message to President Sisi.Wang Yi added that     

PASSING THE BATON

正China expects the Hamburg Summit to be a success By Mei Zhaorong Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend this year’s G20 Summit in Hamburg,Germany,on July 7-8.Before Xi’s tr ip,Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held the annual China-Germany prime ministers’meeting in Berlin on May 31.During their talks,Li stressed the need to elevate the all-round stra-     

What China Bashers Fail to See

<正>On the sidelines of a meeting between President Xi Jinping and his Argentinian counterpart Alberto Fernandez in Beijing earlier this year, Argentina’s Ambassador to China Sabino Vaca Narvaja told Xi in Chinese that without the Communist Party of China (CPC), there would be no new China.     

The Blame Game--Trump administration politicizes pandemic for electoral gain

with a crying need for the U.S.and China to unite and work together,it is unfortunate that China-U.S.relations have deteriorated to a level not seen since the Cold War before Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972.This deterioration was completely avoidable.One would have hoped that the rhetoric would dissipate as cooler and more rational voices prevailed to restore a greater sense of cooperation in the world’s most important bilateral relationship.     

Exchanges

Xi Jinping Holds Talks with Czech President Milos Zeman
President Xi 3inping held talks on October 27 with President Milos Zeman of the Czech Republic. Xi made a point of mentioning that President Milos Zeman＇s visit was on the occa- sion of the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries; also the special signifi-cance of its being the first visit by the head of state of the Czech Republic to China in ahnost 10 years. Xi expressed hope that the Czech Republic will play a greater role in promoting EU-China relations and also in coop- eration betweenChina and countries in Central and Eastern Europe.     

Xi＇s Diplomatic Tour de Force

One week after his election Xi Jinping set off for his first overseas trip as Chinese President, during which he visited Russia, Tanzania, South Africa and the Republic of Congo. Back in China he attended the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), expounding China’s diplomatic principles and philosophy on its relationship with other big countries, its neighbors andthe developing world.These activities demonstrated the new leader-ship’s good will and commitment to safeguarding regional and world peace and realizing shared global development.     

The Blame Game

正Trump administration politicizes pandemic for electoral gain While in the midst of a pandemic and with a crying need for the U.S. and China to unite and work together,it is unfortunate that China-U.S. relations have deteriorated to a level not seen since the Cold War before Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972. This deterioration was completely avoidable. One would have hoped that the rhetoric would dissipate as cooler and more rational voices prevailed to restore a greater sense of cooperation in the world’s most important bilateral relationship.     

Reforming the International Order

正The accusation that China is seeking to overhaul the current international order is often lobbied by Western nations in their attempts at provocation and containment.But is China really fomenting such a change?The remarks of Chinese President Xi Jinping on numerous international occasions suggest not.China is in fact a beneficiary of the current international system,and the process of reform and opening up continues to adapt China’s domestic conditions to better fit this global     

China and Argentina:A Growing Partnership

As part of the celebrations for 50 years of bilateral diplomatic rela-tions,President of Argentina Alberto Fernández will make a state visit to China in February,attending the opening of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and officially announcing Argentina’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative.In an interview with China Hoy,a Spanish monthly published by CICG Americas,Ambassador Sabino Vaca Narvaja speaks not only about the current relationship between the two countries,but also about the opportunities that will open up after the presidential visit.     

Creating a Better Environment For Foreign Investment

<正>Opening markets to foreign investment has long been a cornerstone of China’s opening-up policy.Both China’s economy and foreign companies have achieved significant development over the past decades.At the beginning of 2017,with trade protectionism casting a shadow on the global economy,Chinese President Xi Jinping made a pledge in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos,Switzerland,that China would always be open to the world.