Russian media: What does China's new Foreign Relations Law mean? Relationship Law | China | External Relations
"Russia Today" website July 4 article, original title: What does China's new foreign relations law mean? China recently passed a new "foreign relations law" that emphasizes "opposition to hegemonism and power politics" and codifies Beijing's foreign policy goals and response to Western sanctions and containment attempts. With the geopolitical shift, Beijing's foreign policy-making is clearly centralized to deal with the insecurity and uncertainty caused by US containment. At the same time, China strives to consolidate its legal system and promote the rule of law to enter society more vigorously. China considers this issue to be an important part of the national process.
One of the keys to this new law is to maintain the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law. This contrasts with the US led unipolarization. This vision implies equal coexistence and cooperation among countries, rather than some countries having excessive power over others.
The law clarifies that China promotes the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, and Global Civilization Initiative, promotes a comprehensive, multi-level, wide-ranging, and three-dimensional foreign work layout, and emphasizes other key points that China has long called for, including respecting national sovereignty and non-interference in the domestic affairs of other countries.
As expected, the area where the law has received the most attention from Western media is calling for countermeasures against countries that violate international law, abuse sanctions, or impose tariffs. This is also the most distorted aspect, as the United States and its allies describe China's measures to counter hostile behavior as "economic coercion," fabricating rhetoric against China, completely ignoring the reality of their own attacks on other countries.
In fact, this Foreign Relations Law clearly indicates that China's countermeasures are not offensive or coercive at all, but defensive. As pointed out in the China Briefing, "The 'China risk' does not come from China - it depends on the actions that US and European legislators may take. The responsibility for China's sanctions should be shifted back to places such as Washington, Brussels, and London, as it is not made by Beijing."
China is striving to strengthen administrative and legal means to address the geopolitical struggles of the United States. Faced with the challenge of containment, China strives to create a safe and stable environment for its economic development. The law centralizes and unifies diplomatic decision-making power, setting clear boundaries for attempts to counter Western sanctions. Although Western media distorts it as "economic coercion," careful analysis helps us better understand China's situation, intentions, and true situation.