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The goal of China foreign policy is to maintain a strong, independent, powerful and united China that is one of several great powers in the world. The China foreign policy establishment maintains that in achieving this goal.
Institutions of foreign policy
Like most other nations, China's foreign policy is carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, the Foreign Affairs Ministry is subordinate to the Foreign Affairs Leading Small Group of the Communist Party of China, which decides on policy-making.
Recent foreign policy
In recent years, China's leaders have been regular travelers to all parts of the globe, and it has sought a higher profile in the UN through its permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and other multilateral organizations.
Chinas relations with its Asian neighbors have become stable during the last decades of the twentieth century. China cultivated more cooperative relationship with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Myanmar, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and participated in the ASEAN Regional Forum.
China has improved ties with Russia. China and Russia signed a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in July 2001.
China has improved ties with India. Relations in the 21st century between China and India the world's two most populous countries have been more harmonious, as they have started to collaborate in several economic and strategic areas. Both countries have doubled their economic trade in the past few years and China now India's largest trading partner. The two countries are planning to host joint naval exercises. Currently China Navy (PLAN) and Indian Navy jointly patrolling off Somalia waters in an Anti Piracy navel mission.
At a national meeting on diplomatic work in August 2004, China President Hu Jintao reiterated that China will continue its "independent foreign policy of peaceful development," stressing the need for a peaceful and stable international environment, especially among China's neighbors, that will foster "mutually beneficial cooperation" and "common development."
Relations by region
China is Africa's third largest commercial partner and second largest exporter to Africa.
China has strong economic cooperation and military cooperation with Africa.
Chinas companies have invested in Central Asia. China and Kazakhstan have constructed an oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to China and are planning to construct a natural gas pipeline. In Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, China has invested in hydroelectric projects. In addition to bolstering trade ties, China has contributed aid and funding to the region's countries.
China deepening bilateral relationship in the Middle East. Chinas relationships with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Iran which entail trade and energy cooperation.
China's current trade volume with all South Asian nations reached to US$66 billion in 2008. China's bilateral trade with India accounts for US$38 billion in 2008, a number set to grow to US$50 billion in 2010.
China runs trade surpluses with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, China also assists South Asian nations with low-cost financial capital, to help their development.
Relations by country
The election of prime minister Kevin Rudd has piqued public speculation into Chinas relations with Australia, as he is the first leader of any Western nation to speak fluent Mandarin. He majored in Chinese language and Chinese history at the Australian National University and acquired a Chinese alias.
New Zealand and China celebrated 35 years of diplomatic relations in 2007. The bilateral relationship has grown to become one of New Zealand's most important. A free trade agreement (FTA) between China and New Zealand was signed on 7 April 2008 by Premier of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark in Beijing. It is the first free trade agreement that China has signed with any developed country.
Major international treaties
The People's Republic of China has signed numerous international conventions and treaties. Conventions signed by China include: Assistance in Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency Convention; Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; Chemical Weapons Convention; Conventional Weapons Convention; Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident Convention; Inhumane Weapons Convention; Nuclear Dumping Convention, Nuclear Safety Convention; Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Convention; Rights of the Child and on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Convention and Status of Refugees Convention.
Treaties include the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, Treaty on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; Treaty on Outer Space; Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Treaty on Seabed Arms Control; and Treaty on the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone.
China also is a party to the following international environmental conventions: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, and Whaling.
Institutions of foreign policy
Like most other nations, China's foreign policy is carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, the Foreign Affairs Ministry is subordinate to the Foreign Affairs Leading Small Group of the Communist Party of China, which decides on policy-making.
Recent foreign policy
In recent years, China's leaders have been regular travelers to all parts of the globe, and it has sought a higher profile in the UN through its permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and other multilateral organizations.
Chinas relations with its Asian neighbors have become stable during the last decades of the twentieth century. China cultivated more cooperative relationship with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Myanmar, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and participated in the ASEAN Regional Forum.
China has improved ties with Russia. China and Russia signed a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in July 2001.
China has improved ties with India. Relations in the 21st century between China and India the world's two most populous countries have been more harmonious, as they have started to collaborate in several economic and strategic areas. Both countries have doubled their economic trade in the past few years and China now India's largest trading partner. The two countries are planning to host joint naval exercises. Currently China Navy (PLAN) and Indian Navy jointly patrolling off Somalia waters in an Anti Piracy navel mission.
At a national meeting on diplomatic work in August 2004, China President Hu Jintao reiterated that China will continue its "independent foreign policy of peaceful development," stressing the need for a peaceful and stable international environment, especially among China's neighbors, that will foster "mutually beneficial cooperation" and "common development."
Relations by region
China is Africa's third largest commercial partner and second largest exporter to Africa.
China has strong economic cooperation and military cooperation with Africa.
Chinas companies have invested in Central Asia. China and Kazakhstan have constructed an oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to China and are planning to construct a natural gas pipeline. In Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, China has invested in hydroelectric projects. In addition to bolstering trade ties, China has contributed aid and funding to the region's countries.
China deepening bilateral relationship in the Middle East. Chinas relationships with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Iran which entail trade and energy cooperation.
China's current trade volume with all South Asian nations reached to US$66 billion in 2008. China's bilateral trade with India accounts for US$38 billion in 2008, a number set to grow to US$50 billion in 2010.
China runs trade surpluses with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, China also assists South Asian nations with low-cost financial capital, to help their development.
Relations by country
The election of prime minister Kevin Rudd has piqued public speculation into Chinas relations with Australia, as he is the first leader of any Western nation to speak fluent Mandarin. He majored in Chinese language and Chinese history at the Australian National University and acquired a Chinese alias.
New Zealand and China celebrated 35 years of diplomatic relations in 2007. The bilateral relationship has grown to become one of New Zealand's most important. A free trade agreement (FTA) between China and New Zealand was signed on 7 April 2008 by Premier of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark in Beijing. It is the first free trade agreement that China has signed with any developed country.
Major international treaties
The People's Republic of China has signed numerous international conventions and treaties. Conventions signed by China include: Assistance in Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency Convention; Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; Chemical Weapons Convention; Conventional Weapons Convention; Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident Convention; Inhumane Weapons Convention; Nuclear Dumping Convention, Nuclear Safety Convention; Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Convention; Rights of the Child and on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Convention and Status of Refugees Convention.
Treaties include the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, Treaty on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; Treaty on Outer Space; Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Treaty on Seabed Arms Control; and Treaty on the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone.
China also is a party to the following international environmental conventions: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, and Whaling.
