Sun Wenzhu: Injecting positive energy into East Asia with open regionalism

In recent years, the Centennial Change Bureau and the Century Epidemium have intertwined with each other, bringing complex and severe challenges to countries around the world, and also highlighted the unique contribution of East Asia as the world's "peaceful and stable anchor, development power source, and new highlands in cooperation." President Xi Jinping has repeatedly pointed out that opening up is the lifeline of Asia -Pacific cooperation, and it is necessary to adhere to the open regionalism. Looking forward to the future, the main theme of peace, development, autonomy, and tolerance will accompany East Asia to continue the road of glorious development and open up a new chapter of multilateral cooperation. A good voice in Asia. "

Under the guidance of mutual respect and equal negotiation, East Asia's regional cooperation mechanism has matured. The East Asian Summit, the ASEAN Forum, ASEAN, China, Japan and South Korea (10 + 3) and other mechanisms have continued to grow and expand, witnessing that Asia's poverty and turbulence in Asia to achieve an important support for East Asia's prosperity and stability. A model of win -win cooperation in different cultural countries. In 1997, in order to deal with the impact of the Asian financial crisis, the process of cooperation between ASEAN and China, Japan and South Korea came into being. Over the past 25 years, "10+3" cooperation has established 65 dialogue and cooperation mechanisms in more than 20 areas including economy, trade, financial, gold, food, and agriculture, including 16 ministerial conference mechanisms, and set up wide areas and multi -level fields. Cooperation pattern. After the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia, 10+3 countries held a special meeting of leaders for the first time to share experiences and support each other, and promote the construction of the "10+3 Emergency Medical Material Reserve Center" to help "Chiang Mai Initiative" "10+3 The rice emergency reserve mechanism "" has played more effectively, leading East Asia to the forefront of global anti -epidemic and epidemic recovery. In 2021, East Asia's economic growth was nearly 6%.

Under the principle of autonomous voluntary, mutual benefit and win -win, the economic integration of East Asia has continued to advance, becoming a leading force for resisting unilateralism and protectiveism, and maintaining multilateral free trade and international cooperation. Since 2020, China and ASEAN have been the largest trading partners for two consecutive years. The trade volume of the two sides has increased by more than 100 times compared with the early 1990s. China is also the largest trading partner of Japan and South Korea, and Japan and South Korea are the second and third largest trading partners in China. The investment in the region is highly active, forming the industrial chain supply chain pattern of "you have me, I have you". On January 1, 2022, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) successfully implemented it, becoming a free trade zone with the largest population, the largest economic and trade scale, and the most developed potential in the world. opportunity.

Driven by the common needs of economic development and transformation and upgrading of East Asia, pragmatic cooperation in regional countries has continuously expanded in emerging areas such as digital economy and climate change, and has achieved significant results in green, balanced and coordinated sustainable development. China-ASEAN "innovative year", "digital economy cooperation year" and "sustainable development cooperation year" successfully held. Low -carbon transformation, clean energy, smart cities, artificial intelligence, e -commerce and other fields have become a new highland of 10+3 cooperation. The "East Asian Poverty Alleviation Cooperation Initiative" proposed by China has become a benchmark for "poverty alleviation cooperation", which plays an important role in promoting the balanced development of East Asia.

Under the guidance of unity and cooperation, tolerance and opening up, the "Asian values" were promoted in East Asian countries to promote regional peace and maintain the long -term security of the region. Over the years, China and ASEAN countries have insisted on solving hot issues with dialogue and negotiation, jointly responding to transnational challenges with multilateral cooperation, conscientiously implementing the "Declaration of the South China Sea", and promoting the "South China Sea Conduct" consultation to make significant progress. The "Single Consumer Conduct" of the South China Sea reached an agreement, effectively controlled the differences between each other, and maintained the overall stability of the situation in the South China Sea. In the face of the geopolitical challenges brought by the geopolitical challenges brought by the geopolitical challenges brought by the regional division of the regional exterior, provoking the regional division of the military group, the ASEAN -centered regional cooperation architecture is the main respect for the social system and development path of the independent selection of the countries, taking into account the demands of all parties, tolerant the interests of all parties to the interests of all parties , Effectively ensure the overall stability of East Asia.

In 2022, China and ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership ushered in the beginning of the beginning. China and ASEAN work together to build a closer community of destiny, jointly maintain the central status of ASEAN in the regional structure, jointly promote the "ASEAN Induction" and high -quality "Belt and Road" initiative, and will inject cooperation in East Asia regional regional cooperation. The new driving force promotes the construction of the East Asian community to a new level.

"ASEAN Indian Prospects" advocates that the Asia -Pacific and Indian Ocean should advocate dialogue and cooperation, pursue common prosperity rather than confrontation. As a "goalkeeper" in the region, ASEAN will adhere to the core value of mutual respect, openness and tolerance, and in order Safety architecture plays a core strategic role. These principles concepts are in line with China's long -persisted peripheral diplomatic concept. At the pragmatic level, the four pillars of "Maritime Cooperation", "Interconnection and Interconnection", "Realizing the UN 2030" and "Economic Cooperation" proposed by the "Outlook" and "economic cooperation" have been reflected in the high -quality co -construction of the "Belt and Road Initiative of the Belt and Road Initiative of the ASEAN. "In cooperation. On the basis of existing experience and consensus, further focusing on development themes and deepening policies and mechanisms will also help promote global development initiatives and global security initiatives to take root in East Asia.

East Asian countries are connected and fate.Facing the thinking of hegemony and the Cold War thinking, a few countries engaged in the geopolitical pressure brought about by the Asia -Pacific security NATO and regional economic campization, forcing regional countries such as the "Border Selection Station" and other historical countercurrents.In order to adhere to the general direction of development and priority, in order to firmly grasp your own destiny, and become a "chess player" to promote regional development and prosperity, not the "chess pieces" of the game of the big country.Adhering to the open regionalism and maintaining true multilateralism will help East Asia to usher in unprecedented development opportunities; and East Asia's cooperation practice and civilization and wisdom will also continue to inject the connotation of new eras into open regionalism.(Sun Wenzhu, an associate researcher at the Asia -Pacific Research Institute of China International Institute of International Institute, was originally on August 5, 2022)

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