By Zachary Keck
On Monday Foreign Minister Wang Yi outlined China’s diplomatic objectives for the coming year.
According to an English-language report on the speech carried by all of China’s major state media providers, Foreign Minister Wang Yi indicated that China will prioritize ties to great powers during 2014.
“China will further build a framework for its relationships with big powers, which should feature positive interactions and healthy development,” Wang was quoted as saying in the report. “China will build a new type of relationship with the United States with increased results of cooperation, and expand cooperation with Russia in various fields.”
The report indicated that China considers the U.S., Russia and the European Union as the big powers of the world, other than itself.
A Chinese international relations analyst quoted in the report said that the decision to focus on ties with other major powers was based on Beijing’s determination to avoid the “so-called fate of conflict between emerging powers and the existing ones.”
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