China’s Xi Appeals For Fairer Governance From Global Leaders

China’s Xi Appeals For Fairer Governance From Global Leaders
President of China, Xi Jinping
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The President of China, Xi Jinping has advocated for a fairer system of global governance, even as Beijing faces increasing accusations from its own neighbours of ‘bullying’ in the Asia-Pacific region.

While speaking at the annual Boao Forum for Asia, Xi told delegates that the world wants justice, not ‘bossing others around or meddling in others’ internal affairs would not get one any support.’ 

The China-based forum is a gathering of political and business leaders intended as Asia’s answer to Davos.

We must advocate peace, development, equity, justice, democracy, and freedom, which are common values of humanity, and encourage exchanges and mutual learning among civilisations to promote the progress of human civilisation,’ Xi said.

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Global affairs cannot be decided by just a few countries, he added in an address seen as an indirect jab at the US, as the rivalry for global influence between the world’s two leading economies grows.

China and the United States have been clashing on issues ranging from Hong Kong to Taiwan and Xinjiang, all of which Beijing considers its own domestic affairs. The two countries have each sanctioned the other for perceived transgressions.

Washington has also accused Beijing of bullying in the disputed South China Sea, where it has established air and naval facilities on artificial islands and continues to build more despite concerns among other claimants to the sea.

China claims most of the South China Sea under its so-called ‘nine-dash line‘, a claim has been declared as without legal basis by the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague.

 

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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