The 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative is a top-level design and an important practice of China’s peaceful development strategy. It’s combined with foreign policies proposed in recent years, including the new type of major-country relationship; principles of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness; the partnership for development and the Asia-Pacific dream. To build the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, we should properly deal with the relations between China’s development and the coordinated development among regions along the road, between integration into the current maritime order and establishment of a new maritime order, between establishment of maritime partnership and protection of maritime rights, and between a “go-all-out” approach and a gradual approach.

Fu Mengzi is vice president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, previously serving as vice director of the World Economy Department and director of the Institute of America Studies. He is a research fellow and doctoral supervisor. He enjoys the Special Government Allowances of the State Council. He is a visiting professor at University of International Relations. He is council members of the China-US Society, US Economy Society and China-US Friendship Association. He engages in the research on China-US relations, world economy and politics, maritime strategy. He published many books, including “World Direct Investment,” “Asia-Pacific Strategic Field,” “New Theories of China-US Strategic Relations” and “The World’s Big Change.” He has published more than 100 academic essays.