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Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted strategic communication and cooperation with North Korea, and expressed a resolve to seek a multipolar world order together ahead of his state visit to the North starting Monday.
In a contributing article on the front page of the North’s ruling party paper, the Rodong Sinmun, on Monday, Xi called for strengthening strategic dialogue and jointly defending the global order based on the system and law centered around the United Nations.
The Chinese leader expressed opposition to hegemony and power politics, and called for resistance to ambitions and schemes that seek to revive militarism and endanger regional security and stability.
Xi stressed the need to seek an equal and orderly multipolar world with inclusive economic globalization for the benefit of all.
Multipoliarization is one of China’s foreign policy strategies aimed at challenging U.S. hegemony, and Xi’s reference to revival of militarism comes in the wake of Japan’s push to strengthen its military.