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A BETTER ASIAN AND GLOBAL FUTURE

need to redouble efforts to transform our growth models and adjust our
economic structures, give greater attention to the quality of development,
and give more weight to making life better for our people. We should
steadily push ahead with reforming the international economic and
financial systems and improve the global governance mechanisms to
provide the support needed for healthy, stable global economic growth.
Asia has, since time immemorial, had great capacity for adjusting to
change. We should have the courage to catch the contemporary waves
and enable changes in Asia and global development to each promote and
benefit the other.
Second, we need to work together in protecting peace, creating the
safeguards for security needed to boost common development. Peace
is the eternal wish of our people. Peace, like air and sunshine, is hardly
noticed when we’re benefiting from it. But without it we are lost. Without
peace, development is out of the question. All countries, regardless of
size, strength, and wealth, should work to protect and promote peace.
We mustn’t have efforts in one place undermined by those in another,
and should work to our strengths to complement each other, moving
ahead together. The international community should champion a vision
of comprehensive security, common security, and cooperative security
to enable this global village to act as a big stage where all can pursue
development, and not an amphitheater for clashes of might. We certainly
can’t have one place acting with selfish motives and causing chaos for a
region or even the rest of the world. As interactions between countries
increase in frequency, frictions here and there are difficult to avoid. What
is essential is that issues and differences be resolved through dialogue,
discussion, and peaceful negotiation in the interests of the bigger picture
in terms of developing relations.
Third, we need to focus on boosting cooperation, creating the
channels needed for promoting common development. As we say in
China, a single flower doesn’t make spring, but a hundred flowers bring
spring to a whole garden. All the world’s countries are closely linked
and have interests that are fused together. We need to pool and share
our strengths. While pursuing our own interests, we should consider the
reasonable concerns of others. While pursuing our own development,
we should promote the common development of all countries, and

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