China’s four secrets

CHINESE Ambassador Zhao Jianhua secrets, which have made it possible for China to rise and become a global economic - a peaceful and secure environment.

The tensions in the South China Sea poses a danger to the peaceful and secure environment that China needs to continue with its China needs peaceful relations with the United States and its Asean neighbors to promote its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.

This initiative consists of the land-based Silk Road Economic Belt to join China with and the 21st Maritime Silk Road to connect China with the Asean member-countries, the South Asian countries and with Africa and Europe, which he proposed a month later in Indonesia.

envisioned as a grand initiative to link Eurasia and Africa but also the Americas up to Brazil, through trade, investments, - ects, tourism, education, culture and other areas of cooperation. This grand initiative is also planned as a mega development project for the countries along the network.

This global enterprise is an incentive for China to improve relations with its Asean maritime neighbors and maintain peace strategic location in the South China Sea of the Philippines, which is also situated at the heart of the archipelagic continent extending from Japan to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the Philippines at the center. The envisioned new maritime silk road to link China with Indonesia and Brazil will pass through the Philippines. Indeed, this different continents of the world.

The perceived major threat to peace in

- stitute of International Studies, one of the leading think tanks in China, explains that a rising power (Athens) and the dominant hegemon (Sparta) made the Peloponnesian -

The article reports that Graham Allison, a Harvard professor, had proposed in his testi studies showed that in 12 of 16 cases in the - lenged a ruling power, the outcome was war. - cept in international relations in the West. - ticle, as challenging the US predominance in

The article, however, expresses the opinion not applicable to China-US relations. It is striking that the article gives the rule of law as Greece, observing

- nizations and international law as a kind of mechanism to achieve international the article points out.

It is interesting that the article states that actual constraint force of international law and international organizations on major countries, the US in particular, the collective the moral constraint and increased the viola opinion.” Thus, the article shares the view that the rule of law also protects the interests of major powers.

The article further reports on the progressive development of international law, stating law has got more rigid with the emergence of - rules of international organizations. Relevant legislation and arbitration begin to be

comparable with that of domestic law, the goal of its compulsion.” This is a perceptive insight on the value of decisions and awards of international courts and arbitration tribunals, as opposed to the dismissive attitude giving little importance to their value on the

for its successful emergence as a global peaceful and secure environment, be kept - cil on Foreign Relations delegation, composed of retired ambassadors and Armed Forces and police generals, and members of the Academe and business, paid a visit to Beijing last September 13-16, 2016, upon the invitation of the Chinese Ambassador. Engagement with China, including through monitoring of Chinese activities in the South China Sea, will serve to enhance our national interests, promote friendship and maintain