Reflections on China’s Foreign Policy

With China’s new leadership established in office,many fresh concepts and proposals on diplomacy were put forward in 2014,and President Xi Jinping has indicated his intention to make a state visit to the U.S.this September.Bringing his new thinking and building a"new type of great power relations"between China and the U.S.and a China-ASEAN"community of common destiny"will require that international relationships are based on mutuality.The proposed ideal of mutual respect in Sino-U.S.relations calls for equality,mutual trust,tolerance,mutual learning,cooperation and common prosperity between the two major powers.A neighborhood diplomacy embracing friendship,sincerity,