On December 27, 2022, Guo Wei, Head of Office of the People’s Republic of China to the State of Palestine, published a signed article “Join Hands to Create An Even Better Future” at the Palestinian official newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, introducing that Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China attended the Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations in 2022 and gave an address, explaining China’s contribution to safeguarding world peace and promoting common development. The full text is as follows:

Throughout the world situation in 2022, the trends of transformation and turbulence are both evolving continuously and the tendencies toward unity and division are both surging and contending with each other. In the face of unprecedented challenges, all countries are exploring ways to cope and need to make the right choices. On December 25, Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China attended the Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations in 2022 and gave an address. It is recalled that China has met challenges head-on and forged ahead with greater resolve, making new contribution to upholding world peace and promoting common development.

In February this year, the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games were a resounding success. In April this year, President Xi Jinping put forward the Global Security Initiative, which answered the question posed by the times, that is how can countries achieve common security? Over 70 countries have expressed endorsement and support of the initiative. As the chair of the first High-level Dialogue on Global Development held in June on the margins of a BRICS Summit, President Xi Jinping announced 32 major measures China would take to implement the GDI, more than 100 countries and a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, have committed support to the GDI; close to 70 countries have joined the Group of Friends of the GDI.

China has continued to reject bloc confrontation and zero-sum competition, and maintained strategic stability in relations with other major countries, has been exploring the right way for the China and America to get along with each other. China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination more mature and resilient, stays committed to the healthy development of China-Europe relations. China has followed an open regionalism to build a stable and prosperous Asian home together and solid strides have been made in building a community with a shared future in the neighborhood. We have promoted solidarity and cooperation with other developing countries. China has stood in solidarity with other developing countries amid an evolving international environment, global volatility, and multiple crises, and worked together to uphold international justice and promote common interests. We have played a constructive role in addressing global challenges and exhibited a strong sense of responsibility and mission as a major country. With regard to the Ukraine crisis, we have consistently upheld objectivity and impartiality, playing a constructive role in its own way to promote peace talks.

China has not been intimidated by any hegemonic power or its bullying, and has acted resolutely to safeguard China’s core interests and national dignity. In response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to the Taiwan region of China, we have taken firm and resolute measures, which have strongly deterred anti-China elements in the United States and the so called “Taiwan independence” forces. Over 170 countries and international organizations have expressed support and recognition of the one-China principle. Governments, political parties and parliaments of more than 100 countries and multiple international organizations have made public statements to demonstrate their understanding and support of China’s measures to uphold national sovereignty. As countries that stand in solidarity with China on the Taiwan question represent over 80 percent of the global population.

China has created new momentum in opening-up and external cooperation, which afforded great opportunities for world economic recovery. In the first 11 months of this year, China’s trade with Belt and Road partners grew by 20.4 percent despite the downward trends elsewhere, China signed Belt and Road cooperation documents with 150 countries and 32 international organizations, and serves as a new engine driving the development of all countries.

In October this year, the Communist Party of China successfully convened the 20th National Congress, which defined the task and path of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization, and mapped out a grand blueprint for China’s future development. China will always stay committed to defending world peace, promoting common development and building a human community with a shared future. We will firmly adhere to an independent foreign policy of peaceful development and safeguard international equity and justice. We will continue to develop friendly cooperative relations with other countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and deepen and expand global partnership. We will firmly adhere to a win-win strategy of opening-up, promote high-level opening up, and jointly build high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and create new opportunities for the world with China’s own development, and join hands to create an even better future.