Boosting global security through dialogue

In his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan province last month, President Xi Jinping said China would make efforts to improve global security governance while further opening up its economy to the outside world. Xi also said the international community should have a "common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable" perspective on global security, must deepen bilateral and multilateral collaboration, and promote coordinated and inclusive security mechanisms.

Xi's remarks indicate the direction of China's efforts to improve the global security governance system.

Two types of global security governance systems exist today. One is unilateral in nature, marked by Cold War mentality and zero-sum game, and resorts to military alliances and geopolitical competition, and believes in interfering in other countries' internal affairs to deal with traditional and non-traditional security threats. The United States is the top power promoting this kind of governance system.