Curb regional troublemaking

China should take responsibility and make clear what actions are allowed on its doorstep and what are not

There is a new development in China's foreign policy. While delivering a keynote speech at the opening plenary of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2013, President Xi Jinping said no one in the international community should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gains. Foreign Minister Wang Yi also made it clear that China will not allow anyone to make trouble on its doorstep.

Some countries have sought to stir up trouble on China's doorstep from time to time, but because that entails places outside China and as China does not want to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, for long it has exercised restraint and spoken in a positive tone, though it has sometimes expressed its dissatisfaction.