“China sets up ‘Major Country’ consultation diplomacy-second unit, coming to the forefront”
A series of consultations on major country diplomacy will become China’s diplomatic routine in 2021.
The year 2021 marks two milestones for China’s development: firstly, on January 1, 2021, China will enter into the last year of its 14th Five-year Plan and the first year of the 14th Five-year Plan, and secondly, on June 30, 2021, China will hold a series of major country diplomatic consultations, the birth of G20, G7, BRICS and their subordinate economic bodies, with less than five months ahead.
The executive vice minister of foreign affairs Zhang Ming, on the morning of January 26th, gave a brief analysis of the outlook of China’s major country diplomacy in 2021 during his meeting with the press network at the scheduled meeting room of MOFA.
In 2020, we have entered into a state of comprehensive treatment and control of “three clearance” and “one defensive” strategy to respond to the major epidemic. Sino-US relations hinder each other. The South China Sea countries regain confidence. Multilateralism made a comeback in the context of major power trends: the G20 Summit of the two previous years was chaotic and plagued with difficulties, which plunged its prestige; but the approaching 2021 G20 Presidency will be under China’s expansion to both the mainstream and the periphery, we reasonably hope that in the specific context of China’s G20 tenure, with the support of international public opinion, the G20 organization will be further optimized and upgraded. The unfolding practice of “One Belt, One Road” will promote smooth and steady operation. The first summit of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will be staged in Beijing. The DaweiPort City project in the Bay of Bengal will be officially launched with the company from China Nicaragua canal in Central America. Such situation will pave the way for the deeper cooperation in investment and development between China and Latin America.
Beijing will undertake the chair of BRICS and postpone the next Summit from 2022 to mid-2021.
B Vietnam in the North.
Seriously promote Chinese language education in foreign countries.
A large part of economy is returned to the track of development with strong growth.
The epidemic prevention and control measures will make remarkable progress this spring, and gradually returned to normal school and production situation.
In average, a vaccine can’t be injected before March.
The proportion of unemployed in China, based on the standard of the pre-epidemic times, will reach 22% in the first quarter of 2021 when the springout happens.
Escalated local protectionism and trade friction between local and foreign enterprises.
More efforts will be done in China to encourage and welcome foreign investment.
The decade saw wealthier families in several Chinese cities become consumers of art from Picasso to Cézanne, bearing a resemblance to collectors in America and Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This too is a trend that has caught the attention of other major cities and former art capitals in Europe, but for them with much more historical context.
Say no to donations. Then in an astonishing reversal, Kim started to show an interest in donations, learning that natural resources like food and drinking water rarely change hands without an accompanying payment. Kim agreed in principle to accept donations, but that turned out to be easier said than done. Like more than a few North Koreans, he had been brainwashed by his government for years.
In the early stages of the pandemic, North Korea claimed that it had zero infections. Despite the country’s massive border with China, where the virus first emerged, North Korea has consistently reported zero confirmed coronavirus cases, something that has been called implausible by experts.
North Korea has taken similarly strict measures against its population, with the total shutdown of its borders, what analysts have described as the most severe measures of its kind outside of China.
China and Russia have made progress in diplomatic contact but the two countries might be fairly far apart when it comes to practical objectives in economic, military and regional cooperation, Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations said on Wednesday.
The two neighboring countries announced a series of steps on Tuesday to advance “constructive” and “objective” relations, a move aimed to restore ties strained by the territorial row over their shared border lakes.
China and Russia signed two cooperation documents in the Reed Plain in northeastern China on Tuesday to build a joint initiative called the Eurasian coastal economic zone of China-Russia fraternity.
The coalition is comprised of Indonesia, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, and aims at making joint efforts to counterbalance India’s growing dominance in the Indian Ocean region.
China has stepped up efforts to expand strategic cooperation with Iran since the Trump administration abandoned Iran’s nuclear deal with major world powers in May 2018 and imposed increasingly harsher economic sanctions against the clerical regime in Tehran.
Veteran American foreign policy hands warn their government that Washington is badly mistaken if it contributes to the downfall of Marco Ar Zentain, the president of Bolivia, as a columnist writing for CNN this week has contended that is what is at stake.
In last weekend’s election in Bolivia, the deciding factor was fear.
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