China plays energetic role in promoting world peace

Seventy-one years after the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the country is an energetic builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order.

For decades, China, in its peaceful rise, has been committed to co-development with other nations through trade and mutually beneficial civilian projects — not fighting in others’ lands like a certain hegemonic power has been doing, year in, year out.

For generations, China has promised not to seek hegemony and has kept its word, as seen in leaders from Chairman Mao Zedong, to Deng Xiaoping, and further to current leader Xi Jinping.

China does not have any intention to fight either a cold war or a hot war with any country, President Xi said on Sept 22 in his statement at the General Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

“China is the largest developing country in the world, a country that is committed to peaceful, open, cooperative and common development,” Xi said.

His words highlight the Chinese will to support multilateralism and safeguard the international system with the United Nations at its core — a global order which China helped create from the beginning at the UN’s birth and which facilitates global growth and the settlement of disputes.

At a time when some US politicians and moguls promote decoupling and a new “Cold War” that may disrupt the world, Chinese voices for avoiding interference in the affairs of another and solving conflict at the table through talks inject hope into the global community.

The distorted picture of China portrayed by the White House is quite different from what China is, in reality.

China has been, and remains, focused on peace of the global village. It cares for the peaceful coexistence of countries, sharing business and opportunities.