The international community has lauded Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.[Special coverage]
"In the interest of peace, we need to foster a keen sense of a global community of shared future," said the Chinese president in the speech.
The remark has received positive responses from overseas media and experts on international relations, who believed China had developed a new conception of foreign diplomacy as embodied by Xi's speech.
SHARED FUTURE
The conception of "global community of shared future" mentioned by Xi has hit the essence of all aspirations for safeguarding world peace, said Abayas Abylayuly, a researcher on international relations at the Kazakh Humanities and Law University.
Faced with nontraditional security challenges and terrorist threats, temporary peace for a single country is not reliable, said Abylayuly.
Only a common security shared by the whole world could ensure a long-lasting peace, said the expert.
China's pursuit for a "global community of shared future" serves as an example for major powers and it will also bring benefits to smaller nations, said Sykhoun Bounvilay, General Secretary of Lao-China Friendship Association.
China's "Belt and Road" initiative has been part of its efforts to build such a shared future, said Bounvilay.
Xi's speech shows China's determination to continue on the road of peaceful development, which is positive to all peace-loving peoples across the world, said Eng King Sia, assistant editor-in-chief of Oriental Daily News based in Malaysia.
The conception of "global community of shared future," which transcends race, border and ideology, manifests China's pursuit for world peace to the benefit of all humanity, said an editorial of Chinese Biz News, a Chinese-language newspaper in the United States.
WIDE RECOGNITION
Helga Zepp LaRouche, founder of the international political and economic think-tank Schiller Institute, hailed the military parade on the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII and Xi's speech as "truly momentous."
"The parade combined in a very powerful way an unprecedented perfection of the drill of the soldiers with the demonstrated determination to defend the concept of national sovereignty of China and other nations in the Pacific region," LaRouche commented.
"The address of the Chinese president embodied clear messages for the international community on the incarnation of the values of peace, justice and security," said Rabie Abdul-Atti, a leading member of Sudan's ruling National Congress Party.
The conception of "global community of shared future" carries great significance, said Deng Long, chairman of the U.S. Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
It is the common aspiration of the whole human race to live in a peaceful environment, Deng said, adding that world peace needs to be maintained by efforts of all countries.
"President Xi emphasized that peace is precious, especially to those who have been victims of the war and tyranny," said B. R. Deepak, professor at the Center of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
"It is this fact that one should remember history, commemorate those who laid their lives, treasure peace and to look forward for future," Deepak added.
