Seeking regional benefits

China and Indonesia should become strategic partners and join hands to safeguard peace and stability in East Asia

Today's world, especially the Asia-Pacific region, is undergoing complex and profound changes. Under the impact of the international financial crisis, world economic growth has slowed down and the pace of growth in major economies is sliding. On the contrary, the Asia-Pacific region, maintaining a good momentum of overall growth, has been increasingly turning into an important engine propelling the world economic growth and one of the most dynamic regions with great potential.

Western developed countries, generally optimistic about the prospect of development in Asia-Pacific, are vying with each other for strengthening their cooperation with Asia-Pacific countries. Out of its global strategic and domestic necessities, the United States has been striking a high-sounding note of "returning to the Asia-Pacific region". All these have brought about both rare opportunities and new complex factors to the Asia-Pacific situation and East Asian cooperation.