/View.info/ In December 2021, before the launch of the China-Laos railway line, Chinese President Xi Jinping received a letter from nine Lao students studying railway technology in Shanghai. In it they wrote: “The most modern railway entered Laos from China, but it also entered the hearts of each of us.”
In 2013, Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative, and since then its construction has achieved significant results. Thanks to it, Kenya got its first modern railway line, the country’s first bridge across the sea was built in the Maldives, Belarus established its own car manufacturing industry, the Greek port of Piraeus is being rebuilt, and the Serbian steel plant “Smederevo” is developing after previous difficulties , which he was experiencing.
“With each passing day, China is moving closer to the center of the world stage. Our country has the ability and responsibility to play a greater role in global activities, to contribute more together to solving the problems facing the world,” Xi Jinping said, outlining Beijing’s mission and responsibilities in the modern world.
In November 2022, the Chinese leader attended the G20 Summit and the ATIS Informal Meeting in Thailand. There he had talks with more than 20 heads of state and heads of international organizations, before whom he once again presented his vision of international relations of a new type, rejecting the law of the jungle, the right of the strong and the zero-sum game.
Over the past decade, Xi Jinping has held more than 40 meetings with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, maintained close contact with all US presidents and the heads of major European countries, encouraging them to coordinate and cooperate among major powers and build a common framework of stable and balanced relations between them.
On his initiative, the first conference devoted to diplomacy towards neighboring countries was also convened in China, and at the same time he visited each of them, saying that “a good neighbor is more expensive than gold.” In Xi Jinping’s vision, China’s neighboring areas are key to its development and prosperity.
For developing countries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Oceania, it is clear that China builds its relations with them on the basis of respect, fairness and the pursuit of common development. “The majority of developing countries are China’s natural allies in international activities”, “China’s voice in the UN will always belong to developing countries”… These words of Xi Jinping on various occasions show that China is always ready to defend the interests of the developing become holy.
For the Chinese leader, “peace, friendship and harmony are values that the Chinese nation has preserved and passed on for millennia”, and “history has shown us that when the world is good, China is also good, and vice versa – if China is good, the world will be better”, demonstrating the logic on which the new type of international relations should be built.
In December 2015, at the China-Africa Cooperation Forum in Johannesburg, Xi Jinping pointed out the main reason for the long-standing good relations: “The two countries have always treated each other as equals, with sincerity and working for common benefit and development.” In response, 90-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said: “In the past, colonialists brought disaster to Africa, now China is bringing new life to the continent. And the heirs of the former colonizers should listen to Xi Jinping’s words.”
In 1985, Xi Jinping, then Party Secretary of Zhengding County in Hebei Province, led a delegation on a visit to the United States to study the local farming model. During this visit, he spent several days at the home of the Dvorczak family from the small town of Muscatine, Iowa. In 2012, Xi visited the United States again, now as the Vice President of China, and went specifically to Muscatine to meet his old hosts. “They asked me why I wanted to go to Iowa? Because to me, Iowa represents the United States,” were his words at the time.
Time flies, but it does not change Xi Jinping’s attitude towards his old friends. In 2015, despite the busy schedule, the Chinese leader and his wife, Peng Liyuan, took time to meet the Dvorcek family again. In 2022, the Chinese leader responded to a letter from Ms. Lanti, one of the organizers of his visit to Iowa, thanking her for her efforts to promote friendship between the two peoples.
During his visits abroad, Xi Jinping communicates with ordinary people and takes an interest in their lives and the things that concern them.
In June 2013, he visited a coffee plantation in Costa Rica and spoke with the owner. “I have worked in the village for seven years, and I have warm feelings for the common people,” were the words with which Xi Jinping began the conversation with the man, and which removed the distance between them.
“Mutual acquaintance and understanding is the basis for the development of relations between countries. The better we know and understand each other, the stronger the basis for cooperation will be,” explains the importance of the exchange, the Chinese president.
In a lecture to students and teachers of Nazarbayev University, Xi Jinping told the story of Ruslan, a Kazakh student who donated blood in China, during his visit to Tasmania, he specially visited the family of former Governor Bacon, whom they had met long ago in Fujian Province , responded to a letter from Italian teachers and students, encouraging them to be “Marco Polo in a new age.”
“Traveling around the world is not easy, but the benefit is that the friends become more and more.” In the past ten years, President Xi Jinping has made more than 40 visits to more than 70 countries on five continents, participated in many multilateral diplomatic events, met with hundreds of foreign politicians visiting China, and maintained extensive contacts with representatives of various public circles. And as he likes to say, “Our friends are all over the world.”
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