China and France Maintain Strategic Dialogue_Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Folks’s Republic of China

On October 15, 2025, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi held the twenty seventh China-France Strategic Dialogue in Hangzhou with Diplomatic Adviser to the French President Emmanuel Bonne. The two sides performed pleasant and in-depth communication on implementing the vital widespread understandings reached between the 2 heads of state and deepening China-France strategic cooperation, and achieved broad consensus.

Wang Yi said that over the previous yr, China-France relations have achieved new progress beneath the strategic steering of the 2 heads of state, with shut exchanges in any respect ranges, steadily superior sensible cooperation, and more and more shut multilateral coordination. This yr marks the eightieth anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations, and human society stands at a essential historic juncture. At current, unilateralism, protectionism, in addition to energy politics and bullying are rampant, and the post-war worldwide system centered on the UN faces unprecedented challenges. At the identical time, a name for equity, justice, reform and governance has surged within the worldwide group. As everlasting members of the UN Security Council and impartial main nations, China and France ought to forge a extra strategically secure and forward-looking bilateral relationship and contribute extra to world peace and stability. This serves the long-term pursuits of each peoples and can be a world accountability that China and France ought to fulfill.

Wang Yi mentioned that China is able to strengthen high-level exchanges with France, deepen strategic mutual belief, and promote all-round cooperation. He expressed the hope and perception that France will strictly abide by the one-China precept, offering a robust political assure for bilateral relations. Against the backdrop of the present shocks to the worldwide financial order, bilateral commerce and funding between China and France have each maintained upward traits, reflecting the robust resilience and huge area of sensible cooperation between China and France. The upcoming fourth plenary session of the twentieth CPC Central Committee will deliberate on the fifteenth Five-Year Plan, which is predicted to convey extra alternatives for cooperation between France and China. The two sides ought to proceed to deepen cooperation in conventional areas reminiscent of civil nuclear power, aviation and aerospace, and agriculture and meals, and actively discover cooperation in rising fields together with synthetic intelligence, inexperienced and digital financial system, new power, biomedicine, and monetary companies. The two sides must also vigorously faucet into the cooperation potential on the sub-national degree. China is able to improve multilateral coordination and mutual help with France inside the framework of the UN, uphold true multilateralism, defend the free commerce system, collectively develop forces for progress on the planet, and construct a extra simply and equitable international governance system.

Emmanuel Bonne mentioned that France cherishes its conventional friendship with China in addition to the friendship and mutual belief between the 2 heads of state. France and China are complete strategic companions and each are main nations with vital affect. In the present worldwide state of affairs marked by uncertainty and instability, it’s essential to strengthen strategic communication, improve mutual belief, and fortify cooperation. France adheres to a convention of impartial diplomacy and stays firmly dedicated to the one-China coverage, with no change in anyway. France seems ahead to making ready for the following stage of high-level exchanges with China and within the spirit of equality and mutual profit, strengthening pragmatic cooperation in financial system and commerce, civil nuclear power, science and expertise, new power, and different fields. The French aspect welcomes Chinese enterprises to spend money on France and is keen to supply a protected and predictable enterprise setting. France opposes commerce wars and bloc confrontation, and is keen to take care of shut strategic coordination with China to collectively tackle international challenges reminiscent of local weather change, biodiversity, and synthetic intelligence.

Wang Yi mentioned that over the 50 years since China and the European Union established diplomatic relations, the 2 sides have helped one another succeed and developed collectively. China and Europe don’t have geopolitical conflicts or clashes of basic pursuits. China-EU financial and commerce relations are complementary and mutually helpful in nature. The underlying tone of China-EU relations ought to be cooperation, and their appropriate positioning ought to be as companions. Wang Yi expressed hope that France will assist information the EU towards true strategic autonomy and a proper notion of China. Emmanuel Bonne mentioned that the EU ought to pursue strategic autonomy, develop relations with China based mostly by itself wants, and proceed to do issues that serve the widespread pursuits of each side. The EU and China ought to turn out to be dependable companions who assist one another succeed, and France is keen to play a constructive position in strengthening dialogue and cooperation between the EU and China.

The two sides additionally had an in-depth trade of views on problems with widespread curiosity, such because the Ukraine disaster, the state of affairs within the Middle East, and the reform and enchancment of the worldwide governance system. The two sides agreed to proceed making good use of the strategic dialogue as an vital mechanism to take care of coordination and communication.