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September 2015
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IISS–Fullerton Lecture: Debating the Contemporary International Order
Madam Fu Ying, Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee, National People’s Congress of China
On 29 July, Madam Fu Ying, Chairperson of the
twenty-first century. Reviewing the foundations
President Xi Jinping’s calls for a ‘community of
Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s
of Chinese foreign policy, which have been heav-
common interest’, Madam Fu advocated a more
Congress of China, delivered the 22nd IISS–
ily influenced by the humiliations of the colonial
equitable and inclusive global order focused on
Fullerton Lecture: ‘Debating the Contemporary
period, she contrasted China’s current interna-
development rather than power politics. She
International Order’. Madam Fu’s starting point
tional standing with the continued existence of
answered a range of questions from the large
was an assessment of Henry Kissinger’s book
an ‘outmoded’ United States-dominated world
invited audience on China’s military capabili-
World Order, which had prompted Chinese schol-
order. Madam Fu warned that, in order to avoid
ties, Beijing’s concerns over encirclement, UN
ars to become involved in the debate over the
an escalation in rivalry, the US and China should
Security Council reform, the Asian Infrastructure
potential impact of new powers – notably their
stop talking past one another and instead focus
Investment Bank and religious extremism and
own country – on the international order. Madam
on shared interests and concerns. China wanted
terrorism. Dr Tim Huxley, Executive Director of
Fu highlighted that the key unanswered ques-
not to challenge the US, but rather to build a new
IISS-Asia, chaired the event.
tion is what sort of order the world wants in the
global order in cooperation with the US. Echoing
Watch the full event here.