Speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference that has gathered NATO, EU and other important world powers every year since 1963, Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, delivered a message of sanity, peace and development. With the intervening pandemic and the conflict over Ukraine having so radically disrupted the world order, Wang’s speech outlined China’s distinctive approach to world affairs – a community with a shared future for mankind, in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s words – based on dialogue and consultation, cooperation and trust and focussed on peaceful development.
