《當(dāng)代世界研究年鑒：2015/2016（英文版）》：

　　Comrade Xi Jinping's Diplomatic and Strategic Thinking has important and far-reaching bearings on guiding the Party's international work in the new era. The Chinese Dream has constructed a bridge of mutual understanding and win-win cooperation between our Party and the international community. Having rich connotation, his views on the times, on civilization, on the world, on strategy and on security have laid down a solid theoretic foundation for the Party's international work. His expounding on the relationship between the domestic environment and the intemational environment provides a new dimension to the accurate double positioning of the Party's international work. His comprehensive, balanced diplomatic layout and sophisticated diplomatic tactics bring about new vitality for overall improvement on the quality of the Party's international work. Comrade Xi Jinping sets great store by the Party's intemational work,giving meticulous guidance to it and being personally involved in it, and has made a series of important remarks on it, which has come down as Comrade Xi Jinping's impofl.ant thinking on the Party's intemational work,being an important integral part of Comrade Xi Jinping's Diplomatic and Strategic Thinking.

　　By accurately grasping the phase characteristics of Marxist doctrine on party-to-party relations under the new historical circumstances,development and innovation have taken place in guideline, principles and methods of party diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. By studying and understanding the connotation and essence of Comrade Xi Jinping's Diplomatic and Strategic Thinking, we have furt.her established the guideline of the Party's international relations and extended the principles and methods for handling party-to-part.y ties on the basis of the cardinal principles governing party-to-part.y relations: we seek common ground and set aside differences on the one hand, and hold up bottom-line on the other; we strengthen exchanges of ideas and improve affinity on the one hand and maintain political consciousness on the other; we go beyond ideological differences on the one hand and guard and struggle against plots of Westernization and conspiracy of splitting up China. Such a guideline has helped our Party remain sober-minded and take the initiative in complicated and changing international political tides.

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