CGTN:30 years on: China, ASEAN upgrade ties to comprehensive strategic partnership
Upgrading this relationship, Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced the establishment of the China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership.
- Upgrading this relationship, Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced the establishment of the China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership.
- Addressing the summit, Xi hailed the good-neighborly friendship and win-win cooperation between China and ASEAN over the past 30 years, saying the valuable cooperation experience lays the foundation and provides guidelines for developing their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
- Trade between China and the ASEAN has skyrocketed by 85 times since the two sides established their dialogue relations in 1991.
- He added that China is ready to work with ASEAN countries to jointly build a "health shield" for the region.