White paper promotes new world order

A new white paper on global governance presents Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign policy initiative as a bid to reform international governance in its favor. Both the white paper itself and surrounding commentary show that Beijing’s dismissals of claims it seeks to reshape the international system are a red herring.

The document shows how Beijing sees a route to displacing the United States and the West in the international system runs through global south countries, which it claims to lead, and in particular through harnessing the support of the BRICS countries and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Almost half of the document is spent enumerating Beijing’s impressive achievements expanding its global influence over the last decade. Foreign Minister Wang Yi signaled its importance as the PRC seeks to shape the governance of emerging domains such as artificial intelligence, cyberspace, outer space, and other planetary frontier regions.

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