Chinese President Xi Jinping advocated a new security vision for Asia, which stressed the role played by Asians themselves in building security, viewed as a rejection of interference from outside the region.

Xi raised the vision in a keynote speech at the fourth summit meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Shanghai.

The summit is widely regarded as a multilateral platform for China to play a more active role in the wider Asian community, as CICA involves almost all the major players in Asia. China took over the CICA presidency from Turkey for 2014 to 2016.

The president said one cannot live in the 21st century with "outdated thinking," referring to holding onto a Cold War mentality and advocating a zero-sum game.