Xi Outlines ‘Big Country Diplomacy’ Chinese Foreign Policy

China must establish “big country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics,” President Xi Jinping said in a speech that laid out his goals for making the nation a major strategic power, a further sign he’s jettisoned a long-standing policy to limit involvement in foreign affairs.

The Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs, the Communist Party’s highest-level meeting on foreign relations, sought to establish “the guidelines, basic principles, strategic goals and major mission of China’s diplomacy in the new era,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported.