China’s Xi Calls for Asia Security Framework at Summit

China’s President Xi Jinping said Asian problems should be solved by Asian people as he outlined his vision for regional stability at the opening of an international security summit in Shanghai.

Xi said Asian countries should “pro-actively” seek to build an Asian security concept with a regional framework, in a speech to an audience including Russian President Vladimir Putin and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia. CICA is a group of more than 20 mostly Asian nations from Turkey to South Korea that aims to improve cooperation on peace and security in the region. Japan and the U.S. are observers.