Thoughts on China’s Foreign Strategy in the Early 21st Century

As I see it, China’s foreign strategy pursues three goals in the early 21st centu-ry: goals of sustaining economic development, ensuring state security andshouldering legitimate international responsibility. The task facing our foreignstrategy is how to guarantee a smooth realization of these three goals in response tothe shifting international environment. For this, while defining our foreign strate-gy, we must make the right option on a series of major strategic issues such asthose related to national economic development, domestic political stability, mili-tary security, national unification, policy toward surrounding countries, big power