![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The new era of Chinese peacekeeping officially began in September 2015, when PRC President Xi Jinping gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly announcing that China would shoulder more responsibilities in maintaining world peace. From January 2000 to January 2009, the number of Chinese personnel deployed to UNPKO increased from 52 to 2,146. However, this began to change in the new millennium. The PRC sent few engineering, transport, or medical units to UNPKO throughout the 1990s. Together, these recent messages show the importance that China places on participating in UNPKO, and underscore China’s future readiness to deploy more troops and provide more funding for peacekeeping operations.Ĭhina’s participation in UNPKO began in 1988, when it officially joined the UN Special Committee on PKO. ![]() On September 18, the PRC State Council Information Office published its first white paper on peacekeeping operations, noting in the introduction: “The Chinese government is issuing this white paper to review the glorious journey of China’s armed forces in the UNPKOs over the past 30 years, to expound their ideas on safeguarding world peace in the new era, and to elaborate on the efforts they make” ( Xinhua, September 18). In his video message marking the International Day of United Nations (UN) Peacekeepers on May 29, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun (张军) said that China is a major contributor to UN peacekeeping operations (UNPKO) and will “implement its commitment to multilateralism and world peace with concrete actions and make greater contributions to peacekeeping operations for the maintenance of international peace and security” ( Xinhua, May 30). ![]()
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