Holistic approach to enhance global security

The country's top authorities know well that the security environment has changed and that national security is no longer a narrow focus on military defense against external threats.

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As President Xi Jinping has said, development is the foundation of security, and security is the precondition for development.

With this in mind, he proposed a holistic approach to national security in April 2014 that attaches equal importance to internal and external security, with Chinese people's security as the ultimate goal, political security as the fundamental task, economic security as the foundation, and military as well as cultural and public security as the means of guarantee; with diplomacy, dialogue and cooperation as the linchpins of its approach to create the strategic space essential for realizing its aspiration for national rejuvenation.