Trips promote equality and coexistence

President Xi's overseas visits highlight sustained focus on neighboring nations

In a year of rising geopolitical uncertainty, President Xi Jinping's overseas visits in 2025 highlighted a sustained focus on neighboring countries as a priority in China's overall diplomacy, and a crucial pillar in advancing the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.

From Southeast Asia to Central Asia, and from Russia to the Republic of Korea, Xi's itinerary showed that China has sought not only to promote a vision of equality and coexistence with its neighbors, but also to translate that vision into concrete cooperation through trade, connectivity and development partnerships, analysts said.

As articulated at the Central Conference on Work Related to Neighboring Countries held in April last year, China's relations with its neighboring countries are at their best in modern times, and are also entering a critical phase of deep linkage between the regional landscape and global changes.