Following the Trends of Our Time and Promoting World Peace and Development

Xi Jinping delivered a speech at Moscow State Institute of International Relations on March 23, 2013.

“Following the Trends of Our Time and Promoting World Peace and Development” is a speech delivered at Moscow State Institute of International Relations on March 23, 2013. This visit to Russia is the first overseas visit by General Secretary Xi Jinping since assuming the presidency of China. The speech provides an in-depth explanation of China’s views on the world situation and its stance on international relations, stating that, “It is a world where more and more we are becoming a community with a shared future in which we all have a little of others within us and peace, development, and mutually beneficial cooperation have become the trend of our times. If we are to move with the times, we cannot live in the 21st century in body but in the past in mind, stuck in a bygone era of colonial expansion, stuck in an old framework based on a Cold War mentality or the zero-sum game theory. Facing profound changes in the international landscape and an objective need for the countries of the world to see ourselves as voyagers in the same boat, all our countries should work together to build a new kind of international relations to which cooperation and common benefits are central. All peoples should unite to protect world peace and promote common development.”