On July 31, 2021, the Tunisian mainstream media “News” published a signed article by the Ambassador to Tunisia Zhang Jianguo entitled “Hand in Hand to Promote the Relationship between China and Tunisia and the Two Armies to a New Level”. The full text is as follows:
On July 1st, China solemnly celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party. Over the past 100 years, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people to continue their struggle, and promoted the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up, getting rich to being strong, and developing China from a poor and weak country to the second largest economy in the world. Absolute poverty has been eradicated historically. None of the 98.99 million poor people are left behind, contributing more than 70% of the world’s poverty reduction. At present, China is marching towards its second centenary goal of building a powerful modern socialist country in an all-round way.
China has always placed its own development in the coordinate system of human development, has always closely linked its own destiny with the destiny of the people of all countries in the world, and has always combined the interests of the Chinese people with the common interests of the people of all countries. For a long time, China has firmly worked with the vast number of developing countries to implement the purposes and principles of the UN Charter; actively participates in multilateral activities centered on the United Nations, and participates widely in multilateral treaties and international conventions. It is in safeguarding world peace, promoting common development, and strengthening human rights. It has made important contributions in areas such as protection, promotion of cultural exchanges, anti-terrorism cooperation, and response to climate change.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China has upheld the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind and implemented the largest global humanitarian action since the founding of New China. China has fulfilled its commitment to vaccines as a global public product and has successively provided vaccines to more than 100 countries and international organizations, making an important contribution to the establishment of a global immune barrier.
Both China and Tunisia are developing countries. Looking back 57 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have always respected and treated each other as equals, and supported each other on issues concerning each other’s core concerns and major interests. Thanks to the joint efforts of both sides, China-Tunisia cooperation in various fields has achieved fruitful results. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, China and Turkmenistan have worked together and helped each other. So far, China has provided more than ten batches of anti-epidemic materials to Suddenly, and has actively helped Suddenly improve its ability to fight the epidemic. China has also become the first country to provide assistance to Tunisia with the new crown vaccine. As Tunisia is currently experiencing the most severe moment since the outbreak, China is willing to overcome difficulties with Tunisia and continue to provide Tunisia with vaccines and other medical supplies. It is expected that in early August, a new batch of China-aided vaccines will arrive in the country. Looking forward to the future, China is willing to work with Tunisia to build stronger political mutual trust, closer economic and trade cooperation, steady progress in foreign aid projects, and more diverse cultural exchanges within the framework of the “Belt and Road”, China-Africa and China-Arab Cooperation Forum. The new era of more pragmatic military cooperation between China and Tunisia will benefit the two countries and their peoples.
The upcoming August 1st marks the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. In the past 94 years, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has closely followed the development of the party and the people’s cause, has grown in battle, innovated in inheritance, and developed in construction. The level of revolutionization, modernization and standardization has been continuously improved, and its deterrence and actual combat capabilities have been continuously enhanced. In the new era, the Chinese military, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, thoroughly implements Xi Jinping’s thoughts on strengthening the military, thoroughly implements the military strategy of the new era, and insists on building the military through politics, reforming the military, science and technology, and talents. Administer the army in accordance with the law, gather efforts to train and prepare for war, comprehensively promote the modernization of military theory, the modernization of military organization, the modernization of military personnel, the modernization of weapons and equipment, and strive to achieve basic national defense and military modernization by 2035, and build the People’s Army into a world-class army by the middle of this century. The military provides a strong guarantee for the realization of the “two centenary” goals and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
China has always been a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of international order. The Chinese military has always been a staunch force in safeguarding world peace. The Chinese military adheres to a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, actively carries out international military exchanges and cooperation, and actively fulfills its international responsibilities and obligations. Since the first dispatch of 5 military observers to the UN Truce Supervision Organization in 1990, the Chinese military has participated in nearly 30 UN peacekeeping operations and dispatched more than 50,000 peacekeepers, making outstanding contributions to world peace. Since 2008, the Chinese naval fleet has gone to the Gulf of Aden and the waters of Somalia to carry out normal escort operations. Over the past 10 years, more than 100 (times) ships have been dispatched to provide safety protection for more than 6,600 Chinese and foreign ships, and vigorously maintain international sea lanes. Safety. The Chinese military actively participates in international disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, dispatches professional rescue forces to disaster-stricken countries for disaster relief, provides relief materials and medical assistance, strengthens international exchanges on disaster relief and mitigation, and demonstrates the responsibility of major countries. The Chinese military actively carries out international and regional counter-terrorism cooperation, organizes joint counter-terrorism exercises, combats illegal trafficking in weapons, ammunition, and explosives, cooperates to identify and cut off personnel infiltration channels, promotes international counter-terrorism intelligence exchange and sharing, and actively maintains international and regional security.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the Chinese military has actively carried out international cooperation in the fight against the epidemic while fully participating in the domestic fight against the epidemic. So far, the Chinese military has provided anti-epidemic materials such as masks and ventilators to the military of 50 countries, including Tunisia, and provided vaccine assistance to the military of nearly 20 countries, including Tunisia. The Chinese military will continue to carry out international military exchanges and cooperation, and actively contribute to the maintenance of international public health security and the building of a community with a healthy future for mankind.
The two armies of China and Tunisia have a traditional friendship. In recent years, the relationship between the two militaries has shown a positive momentum of development. The military and political leaders of the two countries have exchanged greetings on many occasions, and the two militaries have continuously expanded cooperation in the fields of education and training, military and medical services. At this critical moment of the epidemic, the Chinese army is willing to fight side by side with the army, and continue to help the army improve its ability to fight the epidemic. Looking forward to the future, the Chinese military is willing to continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields with the Tunisian military and push the relationship between the two militaries to a higher level.
