There are substantial commonalities in Beijing’s engagement between the two regions, but also differences that provide insights into how China-based entities make, and adapt, policies.
China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, used a Beijing-led conference of leaders from mostly developing countries to showcase his ambitions to reshape the global order, as the world grapples with a war in Ukraine and a crisis in Gaza.
If Beijing’s current foreign policy is anything to go by, the most likely outcome of its push to remake global governance is disorder, not a new Chinese world order.