Eighty-one years after Japan’s surrender, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s rearmament drive and a record defense budget are leading many to question whether Japan has truly embraced peace.
Viewed as a whole, this trip is best understood not as a discrete diplomatic event but as one installment in a broader and continuing pattern.
A genuinely multipolar order should mean widening participation, increasing representation, creating additional avenues for cooperation, and giving countries greater freedom to pursue development according to their own circumstances.
With the GGI, China is presenting its answer: Power should contribute to governance.
Nearly 160 countries and organizations have backed the Global Governance Initiative (GGI) in its first year. The next phase will carry that support into financing, digital rules and stronger representation for developing countries.
One year after China unveiled the Global Governance Initiative, a more dangerous and fractured world has made its case for multilateralism harder to dismiss.
Western media outlets often describe China’s growing influence as a revival of the imperial ‘tribute system.’ Yet, this framing reveals more about how the West thinks of power than about how Beijing exercises it.
The resolution of this protracted conflict will depend on whether the United States can accommodate a hemisphere of sovereign equals rather than subordinate dependencies.
The preparations for an attack on Cuba are a threat not only to Cuba, but to all countries who value sovereignty and the emergence of the multipolar world.
Western actors consistently interpret China through the narrow prism of their own historical experience and judge its practices against self-referential ideological benchmarks, deliberately downplaying the inherently peaceful nature of China’s diplomacy.
