China Premier Li Keqiang: ‘Economic Openness Serves Everyone Better’

How China plans to face a world of uncertainties.
Feb 9, 2017 3:20 AM ET

Originally posted on Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

by Li Keqiang

This is a testing time.

Almost a decade on, the world is still reeling from the fallout of the global financial crisis. China faces its fair share of challenges, but we choose to confront them head on.

Above all, we remain convinced that economic openness serves everyone better, at home and abroad. The world is a community of shared destiny. It’s far preferable for countries to trade goods and services and bond through investment partnerships than to trade barbs and build barriers. Should differences arise, it behooves us all to discuss them with respect and a keen sense of equality.

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