Dialogue set for CPC, US parties
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The CPC has also established various kinds of communication or cooperative relations with six main political groups within the European Parliament (EP) and five important parties in the European Union, as well as more than 170 parties in European countries, according to the IDCPC website.
The First China-Europe High-Level Political Parties Forum was held from May 24 to 25, with more than 50 leaders from 35 political parties of 22 European countries and two political groups in the EP convening and discussing issues, including the global financial system and climate change.
Other than the high-level exchanges of senior leaders, the CPC also directs considerable attention to the participation of younger statesmen, Li said.
Communication among future leaders is vital to the sustainable and long-term development of relations at the State level and the CPC has strived to provide platforms to younger statesmen for them to experience mutual understanding and respect for each other, Li said.
"The CPC has already transcended the limits and differences of ideologies and stretched out its hands to the capitalist parties," Li said.
"Due to the negative role that the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union had sometimes played in international affairs, a handful of Western parties once took a suspicious and fearful stance toward their relations with the CPC, fearing that we would possibly subvert their regimes," Li said.
"Another reason for such hesitation lay in the worry that they would be unsatisfactorily affected in the elections for their relations with a communist party."
"The rapid development of the CPC's relations with the two main parties in the US can be seen as the direct result of the success and increasing influence that China's political model has shown to the world," said Gao Zugui, director of the institute of world political studies under the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.
"The advantages of China's political system have been fully displayed in fighting the financial crisis and addressing a host of complicated problems, leading foreign parties to pay more attention to them, which finally bore fruit in the form of the intensified exchanges," he said.
"The department can expand the extent and the depth of its communications with foreign parties and take more diverse, flexible and effective approaches in fulfilling its duties."
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