{"id":12715,"date":"2018-12-11T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12715"},"modified":"2018-12-11T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:44:32","slug":"op-ed-xis-europe-latam-trip-injects-stability-into-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12715","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed: Xi&#8217;s Europe, LatAm trip injects stability into world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Zhong Sheng, People\u2019s Daily<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s latest successful diplomatic activities have again sent a signal to the world that however the international situation changes, China will always increase indispensible stability to the world that stands at critical moment by maintaining strategic composure, keeping a clear mind, and acting constructively and proactively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China adds stability by showcasing a responsible stance to safeguard multilateralism and enhance global governance, which was expressed by Xi during his 9-day trip to Europe and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From Nov. 27 to Dec. 5, Xi paid state visits to Spain, Argentina, Panama and Portugal, and attended the 13th Group of 20 (G20) summit in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the world needs to get rid of the deep-seated influence of the financial crisis, quicken the pace to replace old growth drivers with new ones, and conquer social pressure that came along with technological and industrial revolutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, the G20 is placed with the hope to continue adopting a strategic vision and play a leading role in safeguarding multilateralism and improving global governance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Xi called on G20 leaders to fulfill responsibility and steer the global economy in the right direction, in a speech delivered at the G20 summit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said that G20 leaders should stay committed to openness and cooperation and uphold the multilateral trading system, forge strong partnership and step up macro policy coordination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese President also called on the G20 leaders to stay committed to innovation and create new momentum for growth, and stay committed to win-win cooperation to promote inclusive global development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kept abreast with the change of the international situation, Xi\u2019s proposals offer a solution to the current challenges and are conducive to strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth of global economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It also played a key role in propelling the G20 summit to reach consensus on major international agendas and release a declaration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China injects stability by working actively to push for benign relations between major countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the G20 summit, the meeting between President Xi and his US counterpart Donald Trump was the focus of global attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two presidents agreed to jointly work toward a China-US relationship tuned by coordination, cooperation and stability, and promote bilateral cooperation and exchanges in various fields for more outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The important consensus not only conforms to the interests of China and the US, but also to expectations of the international community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China-Russia relations, special and developing at a high level, are a role model for relations between major countries. During the G20 summit, President Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting like they did on multiple multilateral occasions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two heads of state, in their talks, made plans to celebrate the 70th anniversary of China-Russia diplomatic relations next year, in order to lead their comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination to a higher level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China contributes more stability by showing willingness to deepen partnership through cooperation. In the latest years, China\u2019s closer cooperation with Europe and Latin America has given a boost to development of both sides, and expanded their global influence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s visits to the above four countries have not only injected strong impetus into bilateral cooperation, but also created new engines for China\u2019s cooperation with the two regions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s trip has indicated that as China further deepens reform and expands opening-up, it is unleashing more development opportunities to the world, and countries are having stronger confidence in fostering partnership, and achieving win-win cooperation with China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Xi\u2019s visit, Spain, Argentina, Panama and Portugal are more willing to join the Belt and Road cooperation, and their pragmatic cooperation with China is embracing a promising prospect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pointed out that Spain is laying more importance on Asia, especially China, which is opening itself wider to the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Zhong Sheng, a homonym in Chinese for \u201cvoice of China\u201d, is a pen name often used by People\u2019s Daily to express its views on foreign policy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zhong Sheng, People\u2019s Daily &nbsp;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12716,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715\/revisions\/12716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}