China pursues an independent and
peaceful foreign policy directed toward peace. The basic objectives
of this policy are to safeguard the independence and sovereignty of
the country, strive to create a long-standing and favorable international
environment for China’s reform, opening to the outside world and modernization
drive, safeguard world peace and promote common development.
China’s independent and peaceful
foreign policy has the following major components:
—Adhering to independence. China
decides on its approaches and policies regarding international issues
independently. In international affairs, China shall decide its
own stand according to the rights and wrongs of an affair, shall
never yield to pressure from any big countries, and shall not form
alliances with any major power or group of nations.
—Safeguarding world peace. China
shall neither take part in any arms race, nor engage in military
expansion. China shall adhere to opposing hegemonism, power politics
and aggressive expansion in any form; and adhere to opposing the
infringement by any country on other countries’ sovereignty and
territorial integrity or interfering in other countries’ internal
affairs on the excuse of ethnic, religious or human rights issues.
—Establishing friendly and cooperative
relations. China is willing to establish and develop friendly and
cooperative relations with all countries on the basis of the following
five principles: mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial
integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other’s
internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.
China shall not decide its relations with other countries according
to social or ideological systems.
—Developing good-neighborly relations.
China actively develops friendly relations with its surrounding
countries, safeguards the peace and stability of the region, and
promotes economic cooperation at the regional level. China maintains
that the disputes concerning borders, territory and territorial
waters left over by history be solved through dialogues and talks
so as to seek fair and reasonable solutions. If a dispute cannot
be solved right away, it may be put aside for the time being, and
common ground be sought while reserving differences. An unsolved
dispute should not affect normal relations between the relevant
countries.
—Strengthening unity and cooperation
with developing countries. China has always taken it as the basis
of its foreign policy to strengthen unity and cooperation with developing
countries. China has consistently attached great importance to developing
all-round friendly and cooperative relations with the Third World
countries, actively seeking mutually complementary economic, trade,
scientific and technological cooperative channels, strengthening
consultation and cooperation with them on international issues,
and jointly safeguarding the rights and interests of developing
countries.
—Opening to the outside
world. China opens to developed countries as well as to developing
countries. On the basis of equality and mutual benefit, China actively
conducts extensive international cooperation to promote common development.
As the largest developing country in the world and a permanent member
of the UN Security Council, China is willing to make unremitting efforts
for world peace and development, and the establishment of a new peaceful,
stable, fair and reasonable international political and economic order.
