Formalizing Foreign-Related Affairs Governance and Exercising Foreign-Related Laws in China

Foreign- related affairs are international relations considered from a domestic perspective, and their governance models vary over time. War has long been a decisive approach to handling international relations. With the Charter of the United Nations requiring peaceful resolutions of international disputes and general banning use of force or threat of force to address international affairs, international relations have been placed on a track of legal governance. Governance of foreign-related affairs has to be formalized, although the associated legal governance model still has a close relationship with other models, and the domestic context plays a great role in this. Legal governance can adopt an approach to international law, domestic law, and policy coordination. The legal governance of China's foreign-related affairs can be regarded as the rule of law applied to foreign-related affairs. To exercise foreign-related laws, China should advance the rule of law in domestic and foreign-related affairs in a coordinated manner, appropriately exercising extraterritorial application and jurisdiction, safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests, as well as common values of humanity, and building a human community with a shared future.