CARACAS, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela shares China's vision of a community with a shared future for humanity, President Nicolas Maduro has said.
"I strongly believe that humanity has to move towards a community with a shared future, of respect, of peace," Maduro said during a recent interview with Xinhua at the presidential headquarters in Caracas.
He hailed the vision as "progressive," saying there is a need to spur the construction of a "multipolar, multicentric" world order.
Maduro also called on "the new major powers" to convince the world that it is possible to build a community on the principles of equality and sovereignty.
"They have to stand and say to the rest of the world: it is possible to build a community with a shared future, it is possible to build a multipolar, multicentric world," he said.
"This is the only world where we can live and exist. The world cannot take a backward leap to the old colonies, the old hegemony ... it has to be a world where we all have the opportunity to develop."
The world of the 21st century must evolve towards greater cooperation and respect, so that international law can override the expansionist and supremacist ambitions of some powers, the president said.
Today's international panorama is replete with the interventionist opinions of the U.S. government, which "we completely reject," Maduro said, noting that governments around the globe must "unite the forces of reason and international law to reject all of these interventionist policies."
Venezuela and China celebrate the 45th anniversary of diplomatic ties this year, and their relations are a model for others to follow, said Maduro.
The two sides made headway in "cooperation in trade, energy, finance, technology, culture, politics and diplomacy," and bilateral ties are "at an optimum point of understanding, cooperation and mutual benefit," he said.
Venezuela has become an important trading partner and destination of Chinese investment in Latin America, and bilateral cooperation in such areas as energy, agriculture, infrastructure and high technology runs smoothly, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Maduro acknowledged China's solidarity within the United Nations system, where China has "defended international law, defended Venezuela," and its denouncements of unilateral U.S. measures against the South American country.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Maduro spoke highly of what China has achieved.
In the past seven decades, he said, China has made significant advances in science and technology.
"What it has achieved is admirable, and from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, what remains is for us to send our greetings, recognition, congratulations and admiration to the Chinese people," said Maduro.
About the recent riots in Hong Kong, the president said Venezuela has suffered from the types of interventionist strategies that Washington is now applying in the Chinese city.
"We see them applying the same method they applied several times in Venezuela, the so-called Color Revolutions to destabilize Hong Kong and try to create a serious problem for Chinese sovereignty," said Maduro.
