Global Governance Initiative archivos

China’s Global Governance Initiative: Why the debate matters more than the blueprint

The debate over China’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI) arrives at a moment when questions surrounding global governance are becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. Institutions established in the aftermath of the Second World War are confronting pressures they were never designed to manage: shifting economic power, technological disruption, climate change, geopolitical fragmentation and growing dissatisfaction with…

Dissecting China’s Global Governance Initiative: Reflections on a System Caught Between Inertia and Transformation

The international system today carries the feel of an era that has outlived its own assumptions. Institutions built with the optimism of 1945 continue to stand, yet their foundations no longer align with the world taking shape around them. The gravitational pull that once held the system together, its shared purpose, its post-war coherence, has…

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation – Stronger regional integration or a tool for bigger geopolitical and geoeconomic games?

Manan Shah
Russia , World , India , China , Analysis , Foreign Affairs
6 September, 2025

The 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit was held in Tianjin, China from August 31 to September 1, 2025. Coming at a major historical juncture, this summit arguably grabbed the global limelight more than ever before, bringing together the main non-Western powers and emphasizing their commitment to establishing a “more just, equitable and representative multipolar…