“China’s focus on handling its own affairs well is the greatest contribution it can make to the world,” China’s Global Times argued in an editorial today. “China’s development goals are clear, its policy directions stable, its strategic planning coherent, and its international cooperation predictable—all demonstrating the composure and weight befitting a major power.”
Ironically, the foreign policy ascribed by Global Times to China today, a policy whose premise is confidence in its own domestic development, was once the proudest policy of the United States, when it went “not abroad in search of monsters to destroy” but instead offered a “beacon of liberty” to inspire the world by its own harmonious development, as President and patriot John Quincy Adams so beautifully upheld.
Global Times explains in its own way how that works:
“What the outside world sees today is not merely a China maintaining steady growth, but a country capable of linking long-term planning with practical implementation, aligning economic vitality with social stability, and connecting technological innovation with industrial upgrading. The world’s trust in China is not only trust in its economic data, but also trust in the governance capacity and institutional logic behind it.
