FM sets out foreign policy priorities
China DailyForeign Minister Wang Yi, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, delivers a speech at a symposium on the international situation and China's foreign relations in Beijing on Tuesday. ZHANG LING/XINHUA As senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi elaborated on China's diplomatic priorities and major events to be held in the coming year, analysts said China's stability and its policy consistency are "of the greatest certainty for the world". Speaking at an annual think tank seminar in Beijing on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Wang said that "unstable and uncertain factors will rise significantly" in the international situation next year, while China's diplomatic mission will continue to "hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and a win-win approach". Behind Beijing's diplomatic agenda items next year is the fact that "China is one of the countries that best projects certainty and stability "at a time when political chaos and armed conflicts are emerging across the globe, said Wang Wen, dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing. Speaking of relations with major countries and economies, Foreign Minister Wang said Beijing hopes the new United States administration will "make the right choice, move toward the same goal with China, rule out disturbances and overcome obstacles, and strive for the stable, healthy and sustainable development of China-US relations".