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By Lukas Fiala At China’s SCO summit earlier this month, Xi launched yet another one of his signature foreign policy-oriented projects: the Global Governance Initiative (GGI). Adding an umbrella framing to the existing alphabet soup of GSI, GDI, GCI and ...

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By Lukas Fiala At China’s SCO summit earlier this month, Xi launched yet another one of his signature foreign policy-oriented projects: the Global Governance Initiative (GGI). Adding an umbrella framing to the existing alphabet soup of GSI, GDI, GCI and ...

Xi Launches Global Governance Initiative

In addition to China’s President Xi Jinping’s diplomatic blitz at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit and this week’s upcoming military parade, he also launched the Global Governance initiative. It is the latest - and possibly the most prominent - of a series of initiatives that emblematize China’s ...

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By Lukas Fiala From the U.S. CHIPS Act to the de-risking of supply chains, during the last five years, Beijing has been confronted with the question of how strongly it should push back against U.S. attempts to isolate China globally.

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By Lukas Fiala With markets reeling from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff bazooka, economists around the world are seemingly waking up to the new reality of the "Washington Dissensus." America rejects the very idea of the world it has created, its ...

Roundtable: What the China-Africa Forum Means for Clean Energy in Africa

By Tom Baxter Over 50 African heads of state gathered in Beijing on 4-6 September for the 9th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). As per tradition, the triennial meeting concluded with an action plan and a declaration.

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