INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday attended the 32nd ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministers' Meeting.Asia-Pacific's
development has benefited from the region's peaceful and stable environment and should be cherished, said Wang, also a member of the
Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Noting that the ARF, as an important multilateral security
platform in the region, bears significant responsibilities for maintaining regional peace and stability, Wang said China welcomes the
proposal to reinforce the role of the ARF and enhance confidence-building measures.Wang introduced China's proposition to ensure the stable
development of the Asia-Pacific region and enable the ARF to continue to play its due role: a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative
and sustainable security; a balanced, effective and sustainable security architecture; an Asian security model featuring intertwined
security, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and dialogue and consultation, so as to find a new path of security featuring
dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and win-win rather than zero-sum.Creating division and opposition with
a zero-sum game mentality runs counter to the goal of maintaining security, Wang said, urging efforts to address both the symptoms and root
causes of conflicts and wars.Saying Asia calls for the Eastern wisdom of valuing harmony and coexistence, Wang said wisdom should be drawn
from the Bandung Spirit and legitimate security concerns of all parties should be accommodated.China is willing to work with regional
countries to bridge and resolve differences through dialogue and consultation and inject more vitality into confidence-building measures and
preventive diplomacy in all fields of the ARF.
