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Deputy Director-General of Euro Made
a Speech at PKU: China and Euro, Two
Powers on the Rise
By Liu Li
PKU NEWS 2003—10—31
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=72144752
Peking University, Beijing, Oct. 31st :China and Euro enjoy much in common in
their common understanding in multilateral relationship development and a pluralistic
outlook towards the world, according to Mr. Pierre DEFRAIGNE, deputy
director-general of the Euro through his speech on last Saturday evening.
The deputy director-general of the Euro, Mr. Pierre DEFRAIGNE, delivered a speech
under the name of China and Euro: Two Powers on the Rise, in the reporting hall of
School of Guanghua Management on Oct. 31st, 2003.
Mr. DEFRAIGNE first stated his opinion on a multi-polarism world. He believed that
according to what the Euro has experienced throughout its entire establishing
process, a multi-polarism is necessary in avoiding putting one‘s own developing
model onto other countries by force. That is why China and Euro can establish a
co-monitoring legitimating system within such a multi-polarism environment. He
furthered his point by raising two way to secure safety, hawk and dove patterns in
short. Mr. DEFRAIGNE tended to choose the latter in establishing a system that
resolves conflict through dialogues and negotiations based on international law. After
flashing back in history about the establishment of the Euro, Mr. DEFREIGNE listed
3 major features in which the Euro is quite different from the U.S., including a
different economic system, a social economic structure that favors more on personal
development and acting to stabilize relationships with its neighbors. He described his
ideal future international world: a global economic circle made up with different
economic systems, narrowed gap between south and north especially in their GDPs
and a high efficiency of governments in their cooperation in combating terrorism and
poverty. He also pointed out that China shares much in common with the Euro in
their geopolitical importance, common pains received from wars and common focus
on relationships between coastal areas and inland areas, together with that between
human and nature. At the end of his speech Mr. DEFRAIGNE comments highly on
Chinese extraordinary leadership in adapting the country in time with global
economic circle. He restated three elements in shaping a safe and stable world:
multi-polarism to tolerate different sense of value, multilateral relationship to ensure
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