China is steadily building an alternative world order
While it purports to eschew superpower competition, Beijing’s global governance initiative is driven by it, unfurling in a slow burn over more than a decade.
To little fanfare in Australia, Beijing launched a grand plan this week to remake the rules governing global politics, positioning itself as the leader of a loose alliance of scores of developing nations.
We should take notice, though, as the proposal solidifies Beijing’s ambitions to sign up Australia’s immediate Pacific neighbours and the countries of South-East Asia to its alternative world order.
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Richard McGregor is a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.
