Wang Yi: Safeguard stability and jointly overcome the challenges in SCS

ON Sept. 2, 2020, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Institute for South China Sea Studies jointly held the 1.5 track virtual international symposium themed “The South China Sea: From the Perspective of Cooperation” in Beijing. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi sent the symposium, a message titled “Working Together to Make the South China Sea a Sea of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation.”

Wang Yi said the world is going through changes unseen in a century. The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is still spreading in the global sphere. International and regional situations are seeing growing instability and uncertainty. Having a common stake in a peaceful and stable South China Sea, China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) countries are a natural community with a shared future.