Shared responsibility to contribute valuable stability and certainty to a turbulent world

Admittedly, the relations between China and its European partners face no lack of challenges, be it their differences on the Ukraine crisis or their trade disputes. That their relations continue to evolve on the right track despite these dissimilarities indicates they are capable of preventing them from defining their ties.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi's seven-day visits to Europe starting on Monday highlight the latest efforts of the two sides to continue seeking common development and maintain the positive and pragmatic momentum of their relations.

While some major countries are setting restrictions for communications and taking a protectionist view on cooperation, China and the European side have long held a consensus that, as major players on the world stage, they are obliged to contribute more certainty and stability to the world, which is increasingly but wrongly defined by conflict rather than cooperation, and suspicion not communication.