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48 China Int'l Stud. 12 (2014)
China's Host Diplomacy: Opportunities, Challenges and Undertakings

handle is hein.journals/chintersd48 and id is 14 raw text is: China's Host Diplomacy: Opportunities, Challenges and Undertakings Chen Dongxiao W hen asked for his outlook on China's 2014 diplomacy at a press VV conference in early 2014, Foreign Minister Wang Yi listed the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and the informal summit meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), both of which are in China this year, as the country's two key diplomatic events in 2014. He labeled these two events as examples of China's so-called host diplomacy. Such remarks have sparked heated media discussions in China. The successful hosting of the CICA summit drew even more attention to China's host diplomacy, and attention will continue to grow in the future. Of course, this is not the first instance in which China has hosted important multilateral meetings, and if bilateral diplomatic activities were taken into account, the number of multilateral gatherings held in China would be staggering. Nevertheless, it is the first time that host diplomacy has been put forward by a Chinese leader as a diplomatic concept and viewed as an important component Chen Dongxiao is Senior Research Fellow and President of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. 12 CHINA INTERNATIONAL STUDIES - September/ October 2014