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2023 Fu Ying: Rational Thinking Needed in PRC-US Relations; Chinese Must Forge Its Own Strength Without Needing to Flaunt It

This blog posting of March 30, 2023 on the popular Baidu website summarizes the views of former PRC Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying, 2013 – 2018 chair of the Foreign Relations Committee of the National People’s Congress. I remember reading a few times online her insightful and colorful Chinese language blog when she was PRC Ambassador to Australia 2003 – 2007. Now that she is retired, perhaps she…

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As US plans military boost, China's defence budget rises at slowest pace in decades - report

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Peace through strength: NPC spokeswoman Fu Ying, spokesperson for the 2nd session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), said that as a major power, China is responsible for regional peace and security. She was responding to a question raised by a journalist from CNN at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. "Based on our history and experience, we believe that peace can only be maintained by strength," she added. "We have heard such concerns... Indeed, certain countries have been selling the idea of China as a major threat," Fu told the assembled journalists, "but we Chinese might ask, can a prosperous country such as China really achieve peace without a strong national defense?" Fu became the first woman in the history of the NPC to serve as spokesperson when she was appointed last year. The NPC is China's highest legislative body.

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China, the world must learn to tell their.

 Link: http://news.163.com/13/0809/06/95QM80U100014AED.html Published before: 2013-08-09 06:51:01 Deleted before: 2013-08-10 21:48:02 Survival time: about 1 days 14 hours 57 minutes

China, the world must learn to tell their.

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August 8th, Nanjing temperature 400C, Provincial People's Congress meeting hall is still full, not packed upstairs and downstairs, but also temporary pedestal several rows, the NPC spokesman of the NPC Foreign Affairs Committee of the charm of this Fu Ying evident. The iconic silver hair, pale makeup, white dresses, elegant Fu Ying, the NPC Foreign Affairs for the province's workers tirelessly Road and Chinese diplomatic situation and an exclusive interview with this reporter questions.

"The world's second? World ninetieth?"

As a senior diplomat, Fu Ying change on China's international status has sense of Audition.

Until this century, the world against China are not much concerned about. Prior to 2008, the British Ambassador Fu Ying as found in Britain, the media sound-sided, predicted China's Olympic Games will be a mess. However, after the opening of the Olympic Games, the British front pages of all the newspapers to enlarge the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games are unparalleled beauty. From that day on, the world's perception of China, turned the page, which implies that China's national strength.

"Now the world generally believe that China's GDP ranks second in the world, is the second largest country after the United States. In general, do you think China is already the world's second largest country yet? "Fu Ying-site investigation at the meeting, upstairs, downstairs, no recognition. "I said in a speech in the UK China is a developing country coax following people laughed, the audience does not agree. [Google failed to translate this sentence]. [The rest is skipped...]

中国，要学会向世界讲述自己

关键词：傅莹,中国,世界,

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8月8日，南京高温400C，省人大常委会会议厅依然爆满，不仅楼上楼下座无虚席，还临时加座好几排，全国人大新闻发言人、全国人大外事委员会主任委员傅莹的魅力由此可见一斑。标志性的银色卷发，淡淡的妆容，白色裙装，优雅的傅莹，为全省人大外事工作者娓娓道及中国外交形势，并接受本报记者独家提问。

“世界第二？世界第九十？”

作为资深外交官，傅莹对中国的国际地位变化有着切肤之感。

直到本世纪初，世界对中国都没有太大的关注。2008年之前，身为英国大使的傅莹在英国发现，媒体声音一边倒，预测中国奥运会将一塌糊涂。但是，奥运开幕之后，英国所有报纸的头版大图都是奥运开幕式无以伦比的美丽。从那天起，世界对中国的看法，翻了一页，这背后，是中国国力的增强。

“现在世界各国普遍认为，中国GDP总量居世界第二，是仅次于美国的第二大国。你们觉得中国在总体上已经是世界第二大国了吗？”傅莹在会上现场调查，楼上楼下，无人认可。“我在英国演讲时说中国是发展中国家，下面的人哄的就笑了，全场不同意。我讲中国人均GDP才位居世界第90位，他们说，纽约大街上还有要饭的呢！我说中国还存在诸多问题，法国人说，你有7%-9%的增长率，什么问题都可以解决。当我告诉英国人，中国很多人认为世界第二是俄罗斯时，英国人又笑了。他们问，俄罗斯和广东比怎么样？”

“当我们说自己是发展中国家时，欧洲人认为中国人在装嫩，美国人则把我们的‘韬光养晦’翻译成‘咬紧牙关等待时机’。如今世界上，普遍把中国看成仅次于美国的第二大国，而国内很少有人承认自己是世界第二。这个认知差距非常之大。”

“我们对世界的解说不够”

“第90，肯定不是；第2，肯定也不是。我们对自身的国际地位要有客观判断，要让国际国内认知接近，需要中国人自己更多的解说。”傅莹说，中国外交曾经充满屈辱。如今，终于开始“大国外交”，依然需要学习。

所谓大国，是要向世界提供公共产品的。美国的公共产品是所谓的“维护世界安全”，“世界对中国的期待是减贫，和周边国家互联互通，这可能是我们提供公共产品的方向。”

怎么去树立中国的大国形象？美国和欧洲对中国了解不够，既有冷战思维的延续，也因为我们讲得不够。傅莹到英国学校，往往会去阅览室找有没有中国历史书，结果要么没有，即使有也并非产自中国。一些关于中国历史的介绍往往简单化为几件事：秦始皇焚书坑儒，赤脚医生……“为什么每一个欧美代表团到中国都震惊：原来你们是这样的？！就是因为资讯的不对等，在资讯输出上，我们是严重的赤字。”

从外交部转至全国人大，傅莹的外交对象变成了各国议会、议员。“外国人访问中国，中国人出于好客的传统思维，一般倾向于让他们看好的，吃好的，住好的，结果却不一定好。他老住五星级饭店，吃得特好，怎么会觉得你是发展中国家？”

傅莹到全国人大后，有过一次接待。“不要回避问题，要针对他的问题回答。外国议员看中国，一般对三个方面感兴趣，政治制度、经济发展、老百姓满意度，这三个方面都让他有了解，就值了。”

“我在英国接受过专业新闻培训”

担任驻英国大使时，傅莹对当地报纸明显带有偏见的报道非常生气，亲自走访多家媒体。在与这些媒体的交流中，无论多么尖锐、敏感的问题，傅莹都问不倒，“因为我掌握的情况素材比他们多的多”。但唯有一件事，让她答不出来―有媒体问她：中国的敌对势力每天给我们发十几篇稿，我们现在只登了十分之一，但是你们的信息在哪儿？

“我们在新闻上不主动，总习惯于幕后做，不习惯、也不会亮相登台表达。这就好比踢足球，你总要上场，虽然不可能场场赢，但有赢的可能。可如果你老不出场，那你这支球队就等于不存在，舆论说你有多烂就多烂。”从那以后，傅莹开始上媒体，写文章，接受采访。

她研究发现，上电视是需要培训的，这是一门专业。在西方，官员如何应对媒体，已逐渐成长为一个技术行业，即媒体包装，或者叫公关公司、咨询公司。2009年G20伦敦峰会下午4点半结束，奥巴马在晚上7点半举行大规模的记者会，现场容纳了2000多名记者。其时，欧洲公众和媒体对美国引发国际金融危机意见很大，可以说，那是一场不易掌控的记者会。但是，奥巴马拿着一张很小的纸条，调动媒体帮他发声呼吁欧洲一起应对危机，轻松自如驾驭了记者会全场。在这背后，奥巴马的包装团队对欧洲舆论进行了详细的调研。纵观全场，无论接到如何尖锐的问题，奥巴马翻来覆去其实只说了3句话：一是美国错了（反正是小布什错了）；二是你们也都错了；三是，咱们一起来刺激经济吧。

“我在英国也做了培训，很痛苦，但非常受益。经过培训之后再上电视，就不太容易掉进外国记者挖的坑里去。”现在，傅莹把英国的培训公司推荐到国内，让国内官员也接受专业指导，提高媒体素养。同时她更希望，中国自己培养出这样的专业行业，指导官员能够少在公众面前说错话。

本报记者 王晓映 实习生 蔡梦莹

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本文来源：新华报业网-新华日报

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'The West Has Become Very Conceited'

Interview conducted by Susanne Koelbl in Beijing, Der Spiegel, Aug. 22, 2011 In a SPIEGEL interview, China's vice minister of foreign affairs, Fu Ying, 58, accuses Europeans and Americans of perpetuating Cold War stereotypes of her country, rejects allegations surrounding the treatment of artist Ai Weiwei and disputes notions that Beijing would like to rule the world.

SPIEGEL: Madame Fu Ying, few countries are more interesting to the West right now than China--and few others alarm the West to the same degree, now that you have launched your first aircraft carrier. Why does China need to arm itself to this extent?

Fu Ying: The first aircraft carrier going to sea is a very exciting event in China. It's something the Chinese people longed for. People think it's a natural step in the growth of the Chinese military--although this so-called aircraft carrier was really just a framework of a second-hand aircraft carrier that we refitted and will only be used for scientific research and training purposes. It's far, far from being a full-fledged aircraft carrier. In that sense, China is well behind other countries, let alone the United States which has had a mature and highly developed fleet of aircraft carriers for a long time now.

SPIEGEL: Are there not more pressing areas where that money could go rather than towards increasing the military budget?

Fu Ying: A number of areas are given greater priority than the development of our defenses. The greatest emphasis is on economic development, the well-being of the people and the sharing of the wealth. My daughter's generation is the first that never experienced hunger in this country. That is unbelievable progress. Your concern about the Chinese military appears to me to be clouded by stereotypes about China based in the Cold War thinking of the division between us ideologically. You feel comfortable with aircraft carrier ownership by your allies, like the United States and France, but you are more concerned if China also has one.

SPIEGEL: How far will China go in terms of defending its interests? In the dispute over the sovereignty of the South China Sea, the tone can at times be quite sharp.

Fu Ying: We, too, are wondering why there is such strong rhetoric, since the countries involved are already engaged in dialogues on the basis of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea in 2002. But this is a dispute of words, and what matters is that the shipping traffic in the South China Sea remains peaceful and there is no war or conflict going on.

SPIEGEL: The Americans clearly have doubts about your intentions. Pakistan is believed to have provided China with access to the wreckage of the high-tech US helicopter that crashed during the operation against Osama bin Laden. Are you in a position to confirm whether this is true?

Fu Ying: Both China and Pakistan have denied this rumor. I think the most important thing is the question of whether China and the US are enemies. Are we going to be in a war? Are we preparing for a war against each other? We certainly don't see it that way. It is not very friendly that the US maintains a weapons embargo against China. We have no intention to threaten the US, and we don't see the US as a threat to us. The West tends to place China in the framework of the Cold War. This puzzles China a lot.

SPIEGEL: Many Germans, while respecting China's development, see your country more as a rival than a partner. Is that something that you can understand?

Fu Ying: I'm grateful you raised that point because it is something that has been on my mind for a long time. If you fundamentally accept that China's growth has lifted countless people in the country out of poverty, then you also have to agree that China has done things right. One must also accept that there can be a different political system. The countries in the West think they have the only system that works and they have narrowed down "democracy" to a multi-party election system, which works well for some countries, most of the time, but as we are now seeing with the latest financial crisis, they sometimes experience difficulties too. The West has become very conceited. At the end of the day, democracy alone cannot put food on the table. That's the reality.

SPIEGEL: The case of recently arrested artist Ai Weiwei, who is well-connected in Berlin, was seen in Germany as a provocation. Was it intentional that he was arrested shortly after German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle attended the opening of an exhibition in Beijing with Chinese officials?

Fu Ying: That's why I say you are conceited. You really take yourself very seriously. Why would a country like China decide on domestic matters and try to make them coincide with a visit by a foreign minister from a European country? I don't see the linkage. The case you are discussing is a legal matter. I am not really interested in this case.

SPIEGEL: If it is a legal case, then why wasn't Ai Weiwei publicly charged? Instead he disappeared for 81 days. The allegations of tax evasion don't appear to be very convincing.

Fu Ying: If you have such great interest in this case and believe there has been a breach of law or rules in his case, you may very well raise it. We can pass it on to the authorities. But how many more Chinese artists, writers, singers and movie stars do Germans know? Your view of China is very narrow and negative, and that's why we don't feel comfortable discussing human rights with you. Our understanding of human rights is based on the UN Charter, which guarantees political rights, the right to life and the right to development. But in your view, human rights seem to concern only some individuals who are subverting the state or are breaching laws.

SPIEGEL: Some of these people symbolically represent hundreds of others.

Fu Ying: But please try to put things into perspective. We have 1.3 billion people living in China. Since day one of our relationship with the West, human rights have been a subject for discussion. Many issues were discussed and solved and the content keeps changing. But today the Western understanding of human rights is used as an instrument against China, regardless of the fact that China has improved very much in this area, and no matter how intensively we are working on the issue.

SPIEGEL: As one dictator after another was chased out in the Arab world this year, critical journalists, attorneys and human rights activists in China have been experiencing a wave of repression, with some even speaking of a "Chinese Winter". Does China fear a handful of activists?

Fu Ying: What was happening in the Middle East is an event that attracted attention all over the world. We, too, are trying to understand what led to these revolutions. As for China, I don't see any direct linkage. Again, it's the habit of some Western analysts to connect everything bad with China. If you think your society is strong enough to avoid infection by the Arab revolution, what makes you think that the Chinese society is so weak that it has to be infected? Eighty-seven percent of Chinese surveyed in a poll by the Pew Research Center in 2010 said the government is on the right track. In the US, however, recent polls show that a lot of people think the country is not on the right path.

SPIEGEL: China always shows pretty strong reactions when Western leaders meet with the Dalai Lama. You recommend that other countries should solve their disputes through dialogue. Why hasn't China succeeded in reaching an agreement with the Tibetan spiritual leader?

Fu Ying: Our difficulty with the Dalai Lama is his political views and demands for Tibet independence. If you read his website, you will see what he wants. In essence, he wants an independent Tibet.

SPIEGEL: He has explicitly rejected that, saying he doesn't want separation, but instead greater autonomy.

Fu Ying: Tibet is part of China. But, of course, the door to dialogue is always open. Dialogue is always welcome. I am glad more and more people are visiting Tibet, and more and more people understand life in Tibet better now.

SPIEGEL: Unfortunately, journalists are not allowed to access Tibet.

Fu: There is a bit of concern about the intentions and motives of Western journalists. Sometimes it's as if some of them come to a wedding and only want to inspect the contents of a dark corner. They want to show the world there is no smiling bride, there is no groom and no happy friends--just darkness. They write about it extensively. They may be facts, but they are very selective facts.

SPIEGEL: Lately, the West has been up to its neck in debts, but China has experienced fantastic growth. As of the end of June, China held US bonds with a total value of $1.165 trillion and European bonds worth $700 billion. Economically, China is already a superpower today. What does that mean for the political balance of power?

Fu Ying: Many say that power is shifting from the West to the East, but we believe that it is a process of diffusion. It used to be within the Western world, but now it is also diffusing to a wider world. There is a need to reform the current world structure, which was built after World War II to the benefit of around 1 billion people of the developed world. China is only one of the newly emerging countries. Brazil is growing. India is growing, as are parts of Africa. In the future, 3 to 4 billion people will be coming into this process of wider industrialization. But that reform needs to be an incremental process that is achieved not through war and not through conflict, but through dialogue.

SPIEGEL: Will the West wind up on the losing side?

Fu Ying: You are currently experiencing difficulties, but you have gone through so many difficulties in the past--Europe and the US--and you always bounce back. We are also interdependent, and your loss is not necessarily our gain. We're in one boat. And we indeed worry when Western economies are experiencing difficulties. That's why it is good that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are taking the lead. Very recently, my colleagues and I discussed the future of the European Union. The prevalent view was that if you work together to address the current difficulties, then the EU will go forward to become more integrated. If you do not, the euro zone might collapse.

SPIEGEL: What would it mean for China if the financial crisis in the West extends to other regions?

Fu Ying: Everyone would suffer.

SPIEGEL: Many observers believe that the legitimacy of the Chinese government hinges on its economic success. In the event of an economic crisis, would you need to be worried about your country's stability?

Fu Ying: Do Western governments change their multi-party system during an economic crisis? I don't think so. Why should we be worried? Having said that, our reform is an ongoing process and we will continue to move forward.

SPIEGEL: For a long time, the West believed that the developments in China were a win-win situation for everyone involved. Now, however, the impression is solidifying--even within international institutions like the World Trade Organization--that the Chinese want to shift the balance of the global economy to their advantage. The long-term policy of keeping the Renminbi artificially undervalued is just one example of this that is often cited.

Fu Ying: China has no intention to rule the world. But if you continue to see yourself as the center of the world, if you see yourself as the monopoly of all truths, all the right beliefs and all the right values, then you will always find it uncomfortable when you realize that the world is diversified. There are different values and cultures. And if you believe you have won the Cold War, then the Cold War is finished, over, done. We are living in a new world. Get down off your high horse of being on top of the world. Come down to be equals and join us on a level playing field instead of creating a new rival in the style of the Cold War.

SPIEGEL: You maintain very close relations with leaders like Kim Jong Il in North Korea, whose people are starving because he refuses to open up his country, or North Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is being sought for crimes against humanity. What is your philosophy regarding this?

Fu Ying: Our own sufferings in history have taught us that we should never try to impose on other countries or support others to impose. We have a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council; we have hundreds of Chinese UN peacekeepers in Darfur, Sudan. If every time you don't like the leader of a country and then move in and intervene, that would lead to chaos. Think of your own experience in intervention, which is not always successful.

SPIEGEL: You're referring to the military deployment in your neighbor country, Afghanistan.

Fu Ying: You need to reflect on your own experience.

SPIEGEL: Given differences of opinion, how are powers like China and the USA supposed to cooperate in dealing with global challenges like cyber security, financial stability, food security and nuclear proliferation?

Fu Ying: We need to overcome the wall of distrust. If we only allow ourselves to be led by our own views, our own feeling, our own emotions, even our own values, then we will only create more problems. Be it peacekeeping missions or the protection of shipping channels off the coast of Somalia or climate change, I think you will find China to be an enthusiastic participant in world affairs.

SPIEGEL: How does it feel to be viewed as a new economic superpower?

Fu Ying: It is flattering.

SPIEGEL: Does it make you nervous, as well?

Fu Ying: Not at all. We don't view ourselves as a superpower. You are not going to see a USA or a Soviet Union in China. You are going to see a culturally nourished country with a big population, being more content, being happy, being purposeful--and it will be a friend to the world. There is no reason to worry about China.