China as a Rising Norm Entrepreneur: Examining GDI, GSI and GCI

Manoj Kewalramani

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ISBN: 9789815203127

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This paper discusses Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flagship global initiatives’ normative implications for the world order.

It argues that the Global Development Initiative (GDI), Global Security Initiative (GSI) and Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), which are key pillars of China’s proposal to build a community of common destiny for mankind, are driven by Beijing’s desire to cultivate authority in the international system.

Analysing the speeches by Chinese leaders, policy documents, media and analytical discourse in China, along with policy decisions, this study provides an assessment of the Chinese leadership’s worldview. It places the launch of GDI, GSI and GCI within this context, before detailing the elements of each initiative and offering a critical analysis.

This study concludes that through GDI, GSI and GCI, the Chinese leadership hopes to shape an external environment that not only ensures regime security but is also favourable to China’s development and security interests. In doing so, however, it is reshaping key norms of global governance towards a fundamentally illiberal direction.

This book is on the press and will be available for purchase from 30 January 2024.

Format: PB

Number of Pages: 38

Publication Date: 15/01/2024

Imprint: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute