Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
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You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable.
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The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
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In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.
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My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.
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We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.
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China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.
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We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.
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Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.
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Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.
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