How China’s Global Initiatives Aim to Change the Way the World is Run
Beijing’s new foreign policy concepts add up to a call for more emphasis on state rights over those of individuals.
Xi Jinping attends a news conference during the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Credit: Grigory Sysoev/Sputnik via AP Photos
In 2013, in a speech in Moscow, Xi Jinping floated the idea of mankind being a community of shared future or common destiny. In the decade that has followed, this phrase began to shift from being a description of the world’s interconnected nature to underpinning the idea of a more proactive foreign policy that aims to shape a favourable external environment for China.
Since 2021, however, with the launch of the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Security Initiative (GSI)
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