Tunisia visit reflects commitment to shared future

Mired in poverty and underdevelopment, countries of the Global South have long encountered many difficulties and challenges on their development journeys. Worse, each time Western countries have interfered in their internal affairs, seeking to force Western-style democracy onto them, or stirred up trouble in their region as part of the United States' hegemonic stratagems, they are the first to suffer from instability and even chaos.

In stark contrast, China's engagement with countries of the Global South has always been built on the principles of mutual respect, noninterference in a country's internal affairs and win-win cooperation based on mutual trust and equal treatment.

China-Tunisia ties are a good example of this, as apart from their pragmatic cooperation to improve people's livelihoods, the two like-minded partners, with similar views on regional and international affairs, continue to deepen their reciprocal cooperation on the bilateral level and strengthen their coordination on the multilateral level in pursuit of common development and a fairer world order; and they stand together in opposition to any country interfering in the internal affairs of others under the pretext of championing human rights and democracy.