China to provide 10% of UN peacekeeping budget

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China will shoulder one tenth of the budget for UN peacekeeping operations between 2016 and 2018, just behind the US, the UN Peacekeeping chief told the Xinhua News Agency on Sunday.

UN's official website said the top three contributors between 2013 and 2015 to UN Peacekeeping Operations were the US (28.38%), Japan (10.83%) and France (7.22%). China was in sixth at 6.64%.

Hervé Ladsous, UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, said that China is the second largest financial contributor to UN peacekeeping operations and also the largest troop provider of the UN Security Council's five permanent members. In September, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to build a standby peacekeeping force of 8,000 troops. Official data shows up to May 2015, 30,178 peacekeeping officers and soldiers have been sent to peacekeeping operations, the China Youth Daily reported.

According to the report, Chinese peacekeepers have renovated and built roads spanning 110,000 kilometers and more than 300 bridges. They have also diffused 9,400 landmines and explosives, shipped 1.1 million tons of materials, completed 450 patrols and 230 convoys, and treated about 149,000 patients.

The Beijing Police department and Guangzhou Police department have also established liasons with their counterparts in Paris and Rome, mainly to protect Chinese tourists who visit. In turn, some Italian cops have already been sent over to China for training as well.

China is still developing in many ways but is also trying to show that it can cooperate with other nations. If only the US could stop being so reckless in their "nation-building" schemes, maybe there would be more peace in the world.