October 29, 2016

"The third annual North Pavilion Dialogue conference was held in Peking University from October 21-23, to discuss the role of China in foreign affairs. The scholars attending the conference tend to reach a common sense that China, as an emerging leading power, is becoming increasingly involved in global governance, not only offering public goods to the whole world, but also contributing fruitful concepts, plans and solutions to international community, such as the concept of 'human community', One Belt One Road Initiative, and also lead the founding of various financial institutes like Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Silk Road Fund and New Development Banks (NDB).

Wang Jisi, the president of Peking University's Institute of International and Strategic Studies, hosted the conference and leads the dialogue via offering questions and issues for scholars at present to discuss. When asked about how to better understand China’s role in the foreign affairs and how would they define globalization, Nabil Fahmy, Egypt’s former minister of Foreign Affairs, warned that: 'Globalization is quite complex, the failure of which would be detrimental to interests of China and clearly the rest of the world. Glad that after this meeting we achieve better understanding of China’ role in the global governance, definitely China’s strengthening importance in this mechanism also makes it more reasonable and fair.'

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