The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) panel discussed China's Global Development Initiative (GDI).
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in September 2021, President Xi announced the Global Development Initiative (GDI) which outlines China’s vision to be a global leader in developmental affairs. The GDI is a wide umbrella that covers areas such as public health, poverty alleviation and several other issues. However, a year after its launch, many questions still persist about what it entails, how it will be implemented, and whether it complements or differs from the more well-known BRI. Additionally, the GDI has generated interest in the U.S with some circles deliberating on whether it might compete with American aid and development programs.
In the second event under its Interpret China Project, the influential think tank Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) broughttogether a group of leading U.S. and African analysts and scholars to unpack the GDI and its implications. Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS, was joined by Deborah Brautigam, director of China-Africa Research Initiative, and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Samantha Custer, director of policy analysis at AidData, College of William & Mary, Joseph Asunka, CEO of Afrobarometer, and Anthea Mulakala, senior director for international development cooperation at The Asia Foundation.
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