ENI – China is developing as a global leader with potential to help solve the world's problems, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said in Nanjing during his first visit to the People's Republic.
“China is emerging as a senior partner in the fellowship of nations; a country whose economy is changing so fast and whose profile in the world has become so recognizable and distinctive that we can't imagine a global future without the Chinese presence,” Williams told a reception for Chinese scholars who had studied in Britain.
“It's a presence which can do great good; it's a presence which has the capacity to push forward agendas, for instance about development and particularly about sustainable development,” said Williams. “Yours is a society which will have messages to give to the rest of the world, but I hope too that it's a society willing to receive and to hear what the rest of the world has to say.”
