China’s Wang Yi to champion ‘equal and orderly multipolar world’ at Munich Security Conference

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi will head to Europe to attend an annual security conference in Munich and visit Spain and France, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday.

According to the ministry, Wang will attend the Munich Security Conference, which runs from February 16 to 18, and will deliver a speech at the China seminar during the conference to explain “China’s propositions on building a community with a shared future for mankind and advocating an equal and orderly multipolar world”.

The international security policy conference, which marks its 60th edition this year, is held annually at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich. Sometimes called the “Davos for defence”, the conference is attended by defence and security officials from around the globe. China has frequently sent high-level representatives to the event, according to the foreign ministry.

Government officials from Russia and Iran were not invited to the conference amid escalating conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Red Sea as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which will soon enter its third year.