Full Text of Foreign Minister Wang Yi's Speech on China's Diplomacy in 2014

4. The vision of Asian security. President Xi Jinping called for promoting common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security in Asia at the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA); and this initiative was accepted by all parties and included in the Shanghai Declaration. The vision of Asian security has added a new dimension to China's underlying thinking on security, enhanced the global influence of China's thinking on security, and provided new guidelines for maintaining security and stability of both Asia and the world.

China has used the CICA platform to champion security cooperation by rejecting the old mentality of seeking one's own security at the expense of the security of others and building an open and inclusive new security architecture in Asia. This shows China's eagerness to take a more constructive part in Asia's security affairs and provide public security goods.

This new vision builds on progress made in diplomatic theories by the central Party leadership since the 18th CPC National Congress. It elucidates China's strategic thinking on today's world and its diplomacy, and adds a salient Chinese feature to contemporary international relations.

Second, we have actively pursued China's diplomacy to boost ties with all other countries. In the short span of two years since the 18th CPC National Congress, President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have made 17 foreign visits, covering over 50 countries across the five continents and meeting foreign heads of state and government close to 500 times. This has created a "Chinese whirlwind" in the world. Over the past year, we have achieved the following progress on major diplomatic fronts:

On the neighborhood front, we have worked vigorously to build a community of shared interests and destiny. We have maintained frequent high-level interactions and all-round cooperation at various levels and in various fields with our neighbors in 2014. As a result, our converging interests have been expanded and our mutual understanding has been enhanced.