IP26019

Author: Manoj Kewalramani

Published: 02 February 2026

The year 2025 marked a distinct shift in China’s engagement with its periphery. Addressing a symposium at the end of the year, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi argued that while China’s relations with states along its periphery were “at their best since modern times”, regional dynamics were increasingly “deeply affected by the changes in the international landscape” and “maintaining prosperity and stability” across the periphery required “persistent efforts”. Earlier, in April, the Chinese leadership held its first-ever Central Conference on Peripheral Work. The meeting recognised that the periphery was a “vital foundation” for China’s development and prosperity and needed to be viewed from a “global perspective”.

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