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Regarding the development of BRICS, what China has been seeking is to foster open and inclusive collaboration both between and beyond developing countries, particularly on global challenges like climate change. China is not keen on forming cliques or forcing countries to choose sides.

The ethos of BRICS and now BRICS+ - of commonality while recognizing difference - is critical to the expansion of this technical and institutional capacity.

Democracy is a common value of humanity, and the right of the people in every country, rather than the prerogative of any single country.

Model of the China-ASEAN cooperation has to go multi-dimensional and holistic in the face of new challenges.

Colonialism and Enlightenment Liberalism have run out of puff, hastened by the demise of its most recent progeny, American unipolarity. The old is dying. The new remains to be fully formed.

The Global Development Initiative is an innovative, empowering, and transformative force for good. Yet to accomplish the GDI’s stated objectives and realize its potential, it must involve as many like-minded partners as possible.