Zhong Cai Ping Commentary on Adapting Development to Local Conditions - Zhong Sheng: US Making 'Law of the Jungle' a Reality - China wants EU to Restart Investment Deal Ratification, FTA Talks
Here are the key reports and articles from the People’s Daily’s edition on Wednesday, January 07, 2026.
Page 1: There’s a commentary bylined 钟才平 Zhong Caiping. It argues that General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasised at the Central Economic Work Conference: ‘Adapting to local conditions is essentially about seeking truth from facts’, Adapting to local conditions is a correct view of political achievements, a scientific methodology, and a crucial measure and important principle for all localities and departments to implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference in light of their actual circumstances. 习近平总书记在中央经济工作会议上强调：“因地制宜，本质是实事求是。”因地制宜，是正确政绩观，是科学方法论，是各地各部门结合实际贯彻落实中央经济工作会议精神的关键之举和重要遵循.
“Adapting to local conditions is a working method that General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasised. Even during his time working in local government, Comrade Xi Jinping insisted on carrying out work by adapting to local conditions. While working in Hebei, he proposed a new path for economic development based on the geographical characteristics of Zhengding County, describing it as a ‘semi-urban-suburban’ model. In Fujian, he proposed developing forest-based economies and marine aquaculture, making good use of the rich mountain and sea resources to transform them into development advantages. In Zhejiang, in response to the unbalanced development of rural areas across the province, he personally planned, deployed, and promoted the ‘Ten Million Project’, allowing thousands of villages to find the optimal solution for their unique development. In Shanghai, he clearly put forward using the ‘four considerations’ to think about and plan Shanghai’s future development.” 因地制宜是习近平总书记反复强调的工作方法。早在地方工作时，习近平同志就坚持因地制宜开展工作。在河北工作期间，根据正定县区位特点提出了“半城郊型”经济发展的新路子。在福建，提出发展林下经济、耕海牧渔，念好“山海经”，把丰富的山海资源转化为发展优势。在浙江，针对全省农村地区发展不平衡，亲自谋划、亲自部署、亲自推动“千万工程”，让万千乡村找到了各美其美、美美与共的最优解。在上海，明确提出以“四个放在”思考和谋划上海未来发展.
Since the 18th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has carried the requirement of adapting to local conditions through various aspects of governing the country. The General Secretary has emphasised that ‘poverty alleviation must seek truth from facts and adapt to local conditions’; that rural revitalisation must ‘scientifically grasp the differences among villages, adopt measures village by village, apply precise policies, and create modern versions of the ‘Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains,’ each with its own characteristics’; that ecological governance should follow the principle of ‘where forests are suitable, plant forests—where grass is suitable, plant grass—where sand is suitable, manage sand—and where wasteland is suitable, restore wasteland’; and that coordinated regional development should be ‘where water is suitable, focus on water—where mountains are suitable, focus on mountains—where grain is suitable, focus on grain—where agriculture is suitable, focus on agriculture—where industry is suitable, focus on industry—and where commerce is suitable, focus on commerce’. In the past two years, the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasised adapting to local conditions in developing new-quality productive forces. 党的十八大以来，习近平总书记把因地制宜的要求贯穿治国理政的多个方面。总书记强调，“扶贫要实事求是，因地制宜”；乡村振兴要“科学把握乡村的差异性，因村制宜，精准施策，打造各具特色的现代版‘富春山居图’”；生态治理要“宜林则林、宜草则草、宜沙则沙、宜荒则荒”；区域协调发展要“宜水则水、宜山则山，宜粮则粮、宜农则农，宜工则工、宜商则商”。近两年在发展新质生产力上，总书记更是反复强调要因地制宜.
Adapting to local conditions has even greater practical significance today. It is an inevitable requirement for the start of the 15th FYP period. During the 15th FYP period, China’s development environment will face profound and complex changes, and there are no precedents to follow for resolving many contradictions and problems. The more something has not been done before, the less one can simply copy or mechanically replicate; it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions and, based on actual conditions, determine development approaches and solve development difficulties. In the opening year of the 15th FYP, many regions and departments, when formulating five-year plans and planning and advancing a batch of major projects, must proceed from local realities. One key opens one lock. They must not carve a mark on the boat to look for the sword, nor adopt a single template and use it to force-fit everything. 因地制宜在当前具有更加突出的现实意义。这是“十五五”开局起步的必然要求。“十五五”时期我国发展环境面临深刻复杂变化，许多矛盾问题的破解没有先例可循。越是过去没有干过，越不能简单照搬照抄，必须因地制宜、立足实际确定发展思路、破解发展难题。“十五五”开局之年，不少地区和部门在编制五年规划、谋划推进一批重大项目，都需要从各地实际出发，一把钥匙开一把锁，不能刻舟求剑、拿一个模子去套。
This is an inevitable requirement for putting a correct view of political achievement into practice. This year, some regions have begun leadership transitions, making it crucial to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. It is necessary to push cadres to adhere to adapting measures to local conditions; resolutely guard against the set of practices that seek quick success and instant gains in political achievement, engage in falsification, or act blindly and rashly; prevent the phenomenon of ‘a new official lighting three fires when taking office’; and to put an end to ‘new officials not managing old accounts’ as well as to ‘image projects’ and ‘achievement projects’. 这是践行正确政绩观的必然要求。今年一些地方陆续开始换届，树立和践行正确的政绩观非常重要。要推动干部坚持因地制宜，力戒在政绩上搞急功近利、弄虚作假、盲目蛮干那一套，防止“新官上任三把火”，杜绝新官不理旧账和“形象工程”“政绩工程”.
This is an inevitable requirement for advancing high-quality development in the new era. Our country has a vast territory, and the problem of unbalanced development between regions and between urban and rural areas remains prominent. Advancing high-quality development has no ‘single universal formulae’. Otherwise, there will be the emergence of ‘a thousand cities with one face’ and blind involution. ‘A single flower blooming alone does not make spring; when a hundred flowers bloom, the garden is full of spring’. It is necessary to grasp the unity of the universality and particularity of contradictions, use methods adapted to local conditions to stimulate development vitality in all localities, and inject more sustained endogenous momentum into achieving decisive progress toward the basic realization of socialist modernisation. 这是新时代推进高质量发展的必然要求。我国幅员辽阔，地区之间、城乡之间的发展不平衡问题依然突出，推进高质量发展没有“一招鲜”，否则，就会出现“千城一面”、盲目内卷。“一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园”，要把握矛盾普遍性和特殊性的统一，用因地制宜的办法激发各地的发展活力，为基本实现社会主义现代化取得决定性进展注入更加持久的内生动力.
In order to effectively implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee in a manner tailored to local conditions, it is crucial to first thoroughly understand the spirit of the central government’s directives. Adapting to local conditions means that under the centralised and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, each performs its own duties, bears its own responsibilities, and gives full play to its own strengths. It is necessary to implement the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments completely, accurately, and comprehensively, preventing selective implementation, discounting, engaging in workarounds, engaging in selfish departmentalism, and each going their own way. One must keep the overall situation in mind, firmly establish the concept that the whole country is one single chessboard, find the correct positioning within the overall picture, and strive to achieve both winning glory for one’s own domain and even more adding splendour to the overall situation. 因地制宜抓好党中央重大决策部署的贯彻落实，首先要吃透中央精神。因地制宜是党中央集中统一领导下的各司其职、各负其责、各展其长。要完整、准确、全面贯彻落实党中央决策部署，防止在落实中选择性执行、打折扣、搞变通，搞本位主义、各行其是。要胸怀全局，牢固树立全国一盘棋思想，在大局中找准定位，努力做到既为一域争光、更为全局添彩.
It is necessary to act in accordance with laws and principles. It is necessary to adhere to the principles of marketisation and rule of law. ‘Act with initiative without acting recklessly’, ‘fill gaps without overstepping boundaries’ and optimise the business environment and strengthen the endogenous driving force of local economic development. It is necessary to base actions on one’s own stage of development, do one’s best while acting within one’s capacities, not rush for quick success or launch large-scale campaigns at high speed, nor ‘wear new shoes while walking the old road’, thereby failing to keep up with development requirements. 要按规律办事。要坚持市场化、法治化原则，“有为不乱为”“补位不越位”，优化营商环境，增强地方经济发展内生动力。要立足自身发展阶段，尽力而为、量力而行，不能急于求成、大干快上，也不能“穿新鞋走老路”，跟不上发展要求.
It is necessary to be adept at leveraging comparative advantages. Each locality and each domain has its own characteristics. One must base oneself principal functional positioning, strengthen investigation and research, accurately grasp resource endowments, locational advantages, historical culture, and industrial foundations; give full play to strengths and avoid weaknesses, and explore differentiated and distinctive development paths. Persist in being selective about what to do and what not to do, do not blindly follow trends, one-sidedly pursue the ‘new’ and chase the ‘high’, with everyone rushing in at once and then dispersing in chaos, creating a ‘terrible mess’. 要善于发挥比较优势。各地区各领域各有特点，要立足主体功能定位，加强调查研究，精准把握资源禀赋、区位优势、历史文化、产业基础，扬长避短，探索差异化特色化发展路径。要坚持有所为、有所不为，不能盲目跟风、片面求“新”追“高”，一哄而上，又一哄而散，造成“烂摊子”.
It is necessary to take benefiting the people as both the starting point and ultimate goal. Adhere to a people-centered development philosophy, deeply understand the thoughts, concerns, and aspirations of the local people, and pursue tangible, genuine growth to achieve high-quality, efficient, and sustainable development. We must set clear goals, implement practical measures, and strive for concrete results. 要把为民造福作为出发点和落脚点。坚持以人民为中心的发展思想，深入了解当地群众的所思所想所盼，追求实实在在、没有水分的增长，实现高质量、有效益、可持续的发展。要明确实的目标，推进实的举措，务求实的成效.
“Whether adapting to local conditions can be achieved depends to a great extent on the assessment ‘baton’ that directs and commands. It is necessary to improve incentive and restraint mechanisms, refine differentiated assessment and evaluation systems, and place emphasis on the precision, effectiveness, and coordination of assessments, so as to prevent the abuse of assessments, disguised assessments, and mechanical assessments. Persist in combining the assessment of people with the assessment of matters, so that cadres who want to do things and are able to do things can do things and get things done.” 能否做到因地制宜，考核指挥棒很重要。要健全激励约束机制，完善差异化考核评价体系，注重考核的精准性、实效性、协同性，防止滥用考核、变相考核、机械考核。坚持考人考事相结合，让想干事、会干事的干部能干事、干成事.
Moving on, there’s a report on Li Qiang meeting with Taoiseach of Ireland Micheal Martin. Xinhua reports:
“Noting the strong economic complementarity between China and Ireland, Li called on both sides to enhance the alignment of development strategies and explore the potential for cooperation in various fields. China is willing to work with Ireland to expand and improve bilateral trade, Li said, adding that China welcomes Irish enterprises to make good use of platforms such as the China International Import Expo and the China International Fair for Trade in Services to further promote their products. He also called on both sides to seize future development opportunities, deepen cooperation in areas such as green energy, digital economy, artificial intelligence, information technology and life sciences, and further facilitate personnel exchanges. China stands ready to enhance communication and collaboration with Ireland in multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, to jointly safeguard multilateralism and free trade, Li added. As Ireland will hold the rotating EU presidency in the second half of this year, China hopes Ireland will play a positive role in promoting China-EU cooperation, said the premier.”
Zhao Leji also met with (English report) Martin.
Li also met with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. Xinhua says:
“Noting the bilateral relations have taken on a new look under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, Li said that China has always placed its relations with the ROK at an important position in its neighborhood diplomacy. He also noted that the country is willing to work with the ROK to uphold good-neighborliness and friendship, enhance strategic communication, consolidate political mutual trust, seek common ground while reserving differences, and promote the continuous development of bilateral relations along the right track and better benefit the two peoples. Li pointed out that China and the ROK are important economic and trade partners to each other, and over the past 30-plus years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, China and the ROK have achieved fruitful cooperation results and effectively promoted common development. Noting that the two countries have close economic ties and deeply interwoven industrial and supply chains, Li said the two sides should abandon the zero-sum mindset and provide more certainty for each other’s development through strengthened cooperation. China is willing to promote cooperation with the ROK in emerging fields such as high-end manufacturing, artificial intelligence and new energy, deepen industrial integration and synergy, and jointly cultivate new drivers of development, Li said. He also said China welcomes enterprises from the ROK to expand their investment in China and expressed the hope that the ROK side will offer greater convenience for Chinese enterprises to invest in the ROK. China and the ROK should work together to uphold multilateralism and free trade, and safeguard international fairness and justice, to contribute to the promotion of peace, stability and development in the region and the wider world, Li added.”
Page 2: There’s a report on Zhang Guoqing’s visit to Inner Mongolia.
“Efforts should be made to deepen the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, develop new quality productive forces in light of local conditions, strengthen quality supervision on products and services, and better serve high-quality development and a high-quality life.”
In Hohhot and Baotou, Zhang visited the Daqingshan Laboratory of Inner Mongolia Electric Power Group and Dongbao Biotechnology Co., Ltd., to conduct research on matters such as new-type power system R&D breakthroughs and innovation in the biotechnology industry. He emphasised that technological innovation should lead industrial upgrading and continuously foster new-quality productive forces. He stressed the need to strengthen the principal role of enterprises in innovation, adhere to forward design and breakthroughs, strengthen applied basic research and frontier research oriented towards industrial needs, and continuously strive to improve independent innovation capabilities, especially original innovation capabilities, to consolidate the technological foundation. He called for promoting seamless integration of the innovation chain and the industrial chain, highlighting demand orientation and scenario-driven approaches, strengthening pilot testing, promotion and application, and applying more innovative achievements to the industrial chain to form a virtuous cycle of technology research and development, scenario verification, industrial transformation, and iterative upgrading. He urged making good use of policies such as large-scale equipment renewal and major technological transformation and upgrading in the manufacturing industry, adhering to the direction of intelligence, green development, and integration, and supporting enterprises in accelerating equipment renewal, process upgrading, and digital empowerment. He also stressed the need to simultaneously promote the integrated development of hardware, software, and standards, producing software and standards along with hardware.” 在呼和浩特市和包头市，张国清先后来到内蒙古电力集团大青山实验室、东宝生物技术有限公司，调研新型电力系统研发攻关、生物技术产业创新等情况。他强调，要以科技创新引领产业升级，不断催生新质生产力。要强化企业创新主体地位，坚持正向设计、正向突破，面向产业需求加强应用基础研究和前沿研究，在提高自主创新特别是原始创新能力上持续用力，夯实技术底座。要推动创新链和产业链无缝衔接，突出需求导向、场景牵引，强化中试验证、推广应用，将更多创新成果应用到产业链上，形成技术研发、场景验证、产业转化、迭代升级的良性循环。要用好大规模设备更新和制造业重大技术改造升级等政策，坚持智能化、绿色化、融合化方向，支持企业加快设备更新、工艺升级和数字赋能。要同步推进硬件、软件和标准一体化发展，出硬件的同时出软件、出标准.
Zhang also visited the Inner Mongolia Fiber Quality Monitoring Center to conduct research on work such as quality supervision and regulation, and testing and certification. He emphasised that it is necessary to strengthen governance at the source of quality, make coordinated use of measures such as compulsory product certification and national mandatory standards, and use standards upgrading to drive quality improvement. For products involving the safety of the people’s lives and property and public safety, they should be promptly brought under a production license management system. He stressed the importance of consistent and rigorous daily oversight, improving interdepartmental collaboration, cross-regional coordination, real-time dynamic monitoring, and integrated online and offline supervision measures. He also called for strengthening risk monitoring, supervisory inspections, defect recalls, and product traceability, and severely cracking down on illegal and irregular activities related to quality and safety. He emphasized the need to strengthen supervision of testing and certification institutions, urging them to fulfill their primary responsibilities and play their role as ‘gatekeepers’ of quality. 张国清来到内蒙古纤维质量监测中心，调研质量监管、检测认证等工作。他强调，要强化质量源头治理，统筹用好产品强制性认证、国家强制性标准等举措，以标准升级带动质量提升。对涉及人民群众生命财产安全和公共安全的产品，要及时纳入生产许可证管理。要坚持抓在日常、严在平时，完善部门联动、异地协同、实时动态、线上线下一体化监管措施，加强风险监控、监督抽查、缺陷召回、产品追溯，严厉打击质量安全违法违规行为。要加强对检测认证机构的监管，督促落实主体责任，发挥好检测认证“守门人”作用.
Another report informs that the Ministry of Finance, along with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the People’s Bank of China, and the National Financial Regulatory Administration have issued new guiding opinions on leveraging the role of the government-backed financing guarantee system to strengthen support for employment and entrepreneurship.
The report says that in regard to supporting small and micro enterprises, “in recent years, the Ministry of Finance, together with relevant parties, has continuously promoted the development of government-backed financing guarantees, building a three-tier organisational structure of ‘National Financing Guarantee Fund, provincial-level re-guarantee institutions, and municipal and county-level direct guarantee institutions.’ This structure has brought together more than 1,500 guarantee institutions. The cumulative scale of re-guarantee cooperative business has exceeded 67 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of about 40%. In terms of supporting innovation, starting in 2024 a special guarantee plan supporting scientific and technological innovation has been implemented, supporting more than 40,000 small and medium-sized sci-tech innovation enterprises in obtaining over 170 billion yuan in bank loans. In terms of serving employment, the National Financing Guarantee Fund has cumulatively served more than 5.7 million instances of operating entities, such as micro and small enterprises, stabilizing employment for approximately 59 million people.” 政府性融资担保可为小微企业增进信用，为金融机构分担风险，是财政金融政策协调配合支持小微企业融资发展、促进就业、扩大内需的重要政策工具。近年来，财政部会同有关方面持续推动政府性融资担保发展，构建了“国家融资担保基金—省级再担保机构—市县直保机构”3层组织架构，凝聚1500余家担保机构力量，累计再担保合作业务规模超过6.7万亿元，年均增长约40%。支持创新方面，2024年起实施支持科技创新专项担保计划，支持4万户中小科创企业获得银行贷款超过1700亿元。服务就业方面，国家融资担保基金累计服务小微企业等经营主体超过570万户次，稳定就业约5900万人次.
Discussing this current document, an official from the Ministry of Finance informed that “the guiding opinions establish a quantitative evaluation and incentive mechanism to promote the transformation of guarantee resources from expanding coverage and increasing volume to improving quality and efficiency.
First, an employment contribution index has been created. This index comprehensively calculates government-backed financing guarantee institutions’ support for employment growth and the number of people whose employment is stabilized by guarantee resources, using weighted calculations, highlighting a performance orientation that integrates business scale, risk control, and employment stimulation into a ‘three-in-one’ framework, and guiding more guarantee resources to precisely serve employment’, the official said.
Second, the employment contribution index has been linked to credit authorization limits and re-guarantee fee discounts, with the aim of lowering costs for cooperating institutions while forming an incentive-compatible policy transmission mechanism to ensure the effective implementation of the employment orientation.
Third, government-backed financing guarantee institutions are required to gradually reduce or eliminate collateral and counter-guarantee requirements for labor-intensive small and micro enterprises that employ a large number of people; they are encouraged to develop convenient online inclusive financial products for small and micro enterprises; and they are encouraged to collaborate with banks to develop exclusive service plans, proactively providing high-quality financial services to enterprises whose employment numbers have not decreased and are significantly affected by tariffs. 财政部相关负责人表示，指导意见建立了一套量化评价与激励约束机制，推动担保资源从扩面增量向提质增效转变。一是创设就业贡献度指标。“该指标综合政府性融资担保机构支持就业增长、担保资源稳定就业人数加权计算，突出业务规模、风险控制、就业带动‘三位一体’的绩效导向，引导更多担保资源精准服务就业。”该负责人说。二是将就业贡献度与授信额度、再担保费优惠挂钩，旨在降低合作机构成本，又形成激励相容的政策传导机制，确保就业导向有效落实。三是要求政府性融资担保机构逐步降低或取消对吸纳就业人数多的劳动密集型小微企业的抵质押反担保要求；鼓励打造便捷化线上普惠小微产品；鼓励银担合作制定专属服务方案，对用工人数未减少、受关税影响较大的企业主动提供优质金融服务等。
“‘The entrepreneurship guarantee loan reward and subsidy policy is an important measure for giving play to the ‘leveraging effect’ of fiscal funds—using a small amount to move a large impact—and for safeguarding employment and entrepreneurship among key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers, and demobilised veterans.’ On average, the official said, for every 100 million yuan in rewards and subsidies provided by the central government, about 5 billion yuan in newly-issued entrepreneurship guarantee loans can be leveraged, supporting approximately 17,500 people in starting businesses. In terms of supporting entrepreneurship among key groups, on the basis of the original support for 10 categories of key groups such as college graduates, the guiding opinions clearly include previous-year college graduates as well as eligible graduates of vocational colleges within the scope of policy support; at the same time, efforts are made to reduce the overall financing costs for entrepreneurial groups, carry out pilot programs for innovative cooperation models, increase the intensity of fiscal reward and subsidy policy support, and raise the efficiency of entrepreneurship guarantee loan issuance. “创业担保贷款奖补政策是发挥财政资金‘四两拨千斤’撬动作用，保障高校毕业生、农民工、退役军人等重点群体就业创业的重要举措。平均来看，中央财政每奖补1亿元，可撬动新发放创业担保贷款约50亿元，支持约1.75万人创业。”该负责人表示，在支持重点群体创业方面，指导意见在原有支持高校毕业生等10类重点群体基础上，明确将往届高校毕业生以及符合条件的职业院校毕业生纳入政策支持范围；同时着力降低创业群体综合融资成本，开展合作模式创新试点，加大财政奖补政策支持力度，提升创业担保贷款发放效率.
Page 3: There’s a report on Wang Yi’s call with Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen. Xinhua says:
Wang said that “Cooperation should be the defining feature of China-EU relations, with partnership being their proper positioning…Noting that China and Finland jointly celebrated the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations over the past year, Wang said that bilateral ties have achieved new development, and cooperation across various fields has yielded fresh outcomes. This fully demonstrates the traditional friendship, mutual benefit and forward-looking nature of China-Finland relations, Wang said, adding that the stable growth of China-Finland relations, which have transcended differences in social systems and weathered shifting international dynamics, is rooted in the unwavering mutual commitment of both sides to mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit. Noting that this year is the inaugural year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, Wang said that China will continue to pursue high-level opening up, adding that China stands ready to strengthen alignment of development strategies with Finland and deepen cooperation in such fields as energy transition, circular economy, artificial intelligence, green development, and elderly care services. China will also join hands with Finland in upholding free trade, supporting economic globalization, and achieving shared development and prosperity. Wang expressed hope that Finland, as an important member state of the EU, will play a positive role in promoting the EU to adopt a rational and objective view of China, resolve differences through dialogue and consultation, actively advance the strategic alignment between the Belt and Road Initiative and the EU’s Global Gateway Initiative, restart the ratification of the China-EU agreement on investment, and actively explore the negotiation and signing of a China-EU free trade agreement. He further expounded China’s position on the Taiwan question and pointed out the regressive moves taken by Japan’s current leader, expressing the hope that Finland would understand China’s legitimate stance.”
Also on the page is a Zhong Sheng commentary, lashing out at US military strikes in Venezuela and abduction of Nicolas Maduro.
“At the beginning of 2026, the international order experienced a severe shock from hegemonism, as the United States carried out a military strike against Venezuela and forcibly took control of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. On January 5th, the UN Security Council held an emergency public meeting on the matter. Representatives from many countries condemned the US’s actions, emphasising the need to abide by international law, including the UN Charter.” 2026年伊始，国际秩序经历霸权主义的严重冲击，美国对委内瑞拉实施军事打击并强行控制委内瑞拉总统马杜罗夫妇。1月5日，联合国安理会就此举行紧急公开会，多国代表在会上谴责美国有关做法，强调应遵守包括《联合国宪章》在内的国际法.
The US’s actions of arbitrarily interfering in Venezuela’s internal affairs, based solely on its own will, completely exposed the logic of power politics underlying how the US handles international affairs, particularly in Latin America. This has not only severely undermined the spirit of international rule of law, but has also posed a grave challenge to regional peace and security. ‘The relations among UN member states shall be based on the principle of sovereign equality,’ and ‘all Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force, or from any other means inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations, against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state,’ are ironclad rules written into the Charter of the United Nations and constitute the cornerstone of contemporary international relations. However, the United States has disregarded international law and the basic norms of international relations, challenging justice with power and trampling on righteousness for its own self-interest, openly bringing the law of the jungle into the reality of 21st-century international relations.” 美国单凭自身意志、随意干涉委内瑞拉内政的行径，彻底暴露了美国处理国际事务特别是拉美事务的强权逻辑，不仅严重破坏国际法治精神，更对地区和平与安全构成严重挑战。“联合国会员国间之关系，应基于尊重主权平等之原则”“各会员国在其国际关系上不得使用威胁或武力，或以与联合国宗旨不符之任何其他方法，侵害任何会员国或国家之领土完整或政治独立”，是写在《联合国宪章》里的铁律，构成了当今国际关系的基石。然而，美国却无视国际法与国际关系基本准则，以强权挑战公理，以私利践踏正义，公然将弱肉强食那一套搬进了21世纪的国际关系现实。
“The US has also openly declared that it will ‘manage’ Venezuela, and that major US oil companies will enter Venezuela. This blunt declaration of plunder has completely torn off the last layer of disguise. France’s Le Monde believes that striking Venezuela marks the ‘return of US predatory imperialism’. Britain’s The Guardian points out that US actions against Venezuela resemble the Iraq War and continue its habitual pattern of seizing other countries’ resources. From Afghanistan and Iraq, to Libya and Syria, and now Venezuela, whenever a country or region becomes a ‘priority’ in US foreign policy, conflict and disaster inevitably follow. The hegemonic power comes and goes as it pleases, its domestic interest groups reap huge profits, but what remains is persistent instability and immense humanitarian disaster.” 美方还公然宣称将“管理”委内瑞拉，美国大型石油企业将进入委内瑞拉。这番直白的掠夺宣言，彻底撕下了最后的伪装。法国《世界报》认为，打击委内瑞拉标志着“美国掠夺性帝国主义回归”。英国《卫报》指出，美国对委内瑞拉的行动类似伊拉克战争，延续了其攫取他国资源的一贯套路。从阿富汗、伊拉克，到利比亚、叙利亚，再到如今的委内瑞拉，哪个国家、哪个地区一旦成为美国对外政策的“优先事项”，伴随而至的往往是冲突与灾难。霸权国家来去自如，其国内利益集团赚得盆满钵满，留下的却是持续的动荡局势和巨大的人道灾难.
“‘Today it is Venezuela; tomorrow it could be any country’, Chilean President Boric voiced the widespread concerns of the international community. The hegemonic actions of the US are a major source of the current global turmoil. A true international order must be built on equality and mutual respect. When the ‘law of the jungle’ replaces international norms, it harms the interests of every member of the international community. A world where power trumps justice is bound to be a turbulent and unstable world. UN Secretary-General Guterres warned that the US actions against Venezuela constitute a ‘dangerous precedent’.” “今天是委内瑞拉，明天就可能是任何一个国家”，智利总统博里奇道出了国际社会的普遍忧虑。美方的霸权行径，正是当今世界乱象纷呈的重要根源。真正的国际秩序需要建立在平等和相互尊重的基础上。当“丛林法则”取代国际准则，损害的是国际社会每一个成员的利益。一个强权凌驾于公理之上的世界，必定是一个动荡不安的世界。联合国秘书长古特雷斯发出警告，美国对委内瑞拉采取的行动构成了一个“危险先例”.
“Today’s world is no longer one in which a single hegemon can dominate everything. The course of history, the awakening of peoples, and the evolution of the global landscape have determined that unilateralism, self-centered supremacism, and regressive hegemonic practices find no support. From Venezuela, to the Latin American region, to the global level, and even within the US, opposition to and condemnation of hegemonic actions have surged immediately. The governments of Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Spain issued a joint statement on the situation in Venezuela, pointing out that unilateral military action against Venezuela has set an ‘extremely dangerous precedent’ for regional peace and security, violated international law and the basic principles of the UN Charter, and expressing deep concern and opposition. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot stated that US military action violates the principle of non-use of force upon which international law is founded. The European Union emphasised that ‘international law and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations must be respected under all circumstances’.” 当今的世界，已经不再是一个霸权可以主导一切的世界。历史的发展、人民的觉醒、格局的演变，决定了单边主义、唯我独尊、倒行逆施的霸权做法不得人心。从委内瑞拉，到拉美地区，再到全球范围，甚至在美国国内，对霸权行径的反对与谴责已经第一时间涌起。哥伦比亚、巴西、智利、墨西哥、乌拉圭和西班牙政府就委内瑞拉局势发表联合声明指出，对委实施单边军事行动为地区和平与安全开了“极其危险的先例”，违反了国际法和《联合国宪章》基本原则，六国对此深表关切并予以反对。法国外交部长巴罗表示，美方军事行动违背了国际法赖以建立的不使用武力原则。欧盟强调，“在任何情况下都应尊重国际法和《联合国宪章》原则”.
No country can act as the world’s policeman, and no country can claim to be the world’s judge. The rights of Venezuela as a sovereign state must not be trampled upon, and the Venezuelan people should not be plunged into imposed turmoil. The US should seriously listen to the just voices of the international community, immediately release President Maduro and his wife, cease efforts to subvert the Venezuelan government, and resolve issues through dialogue and negotiation. Allowing hegemonism to spread unchecked will shake the foundations of global stability. All countries that are unwilling to live under the ‘law of the jungle’ should resolutely safeguard international law and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and take a clear stand in opposing all forms of unilateral bullying. This is not only a defense of international fairness and justice, but also a commitment to the future of world peace.” 没有哪一个国家可以充当国际警察，没有哪一个国家可以自诩为国际法官。委内瑞拉作为主权国家的权利不容践踏，委内瑞拉人民不应陷入强加的动荡。美方应认真倾听国际社会的正义之声，立即释放马杜罗总统和夫人，停止颠覆委内瑞拉政权，通过对话谈判解决问题。任由霸权主义蔓延将动摇全球稳定的基础。所有不愿生活在“丛林法则”之下的国家，都应坚决维护国际法及《联合国宪章》宗旨和原则，旗帜鲜明反对一切单边霸凌行径。这不仅是对国际公平正义的维护，更是对世界和平未来的承诺.