Whereas China’s previous generations of foreign-policy initiatives had names such as “Go Out,” “Harmonious World,” and “Belt and Road Initiative,” this recent focus on “global” initiatives seems to express a more concerted desire to shape this geopolitical moment for everyone. But whatever the name China uses for these initiatives, it is characteristically hard to actually define or measure their impacts.
Few countries are as fond of grandly named foreign-policy initiatives as China. Hot on the tails of the 2020 Global Initiative on Data Security, the 2021 Global Development Initiative, the 2022 Global Security Initiative, and the 2023 Global AI Governance Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative, China has just dropped its newest proposal for 2025: the Global Governance Initiative (GGI).
Few countries are as fond of grandly named foreign-policy initiatives as China. Hot on the tails of the 2020 Global Initiative on Data Security, the 2021 Global Development Initiative, the 2022 Global Security Initiative, and the 2023 Global AI Governance Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative, China has just dropped its newes
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