Prominent Chinese Academic Unpacks China’s Role in Global South

A 2020 file image of Huang Yiping. Photo by Picture Alliance for DLD/Hubert / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP.

Huang Yiping, the dean of Peking University’s Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, a key academic center theorizing the China-Global South relationship, recently gave an address outlining his view of what China can offer the developing world.

The key takeaway was that he cast doubt on the value of exporting the Chinese system to the rest of the world. He argued that countries’ conditions are too different to transplant the system.

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