Monday 6th January - 07:20 PM GMT
The Global South and the Rise of China
Join director of the SOAS China Institute, Steve Tsang, as he discusses the central importance of the Global South in China’s global strategy, which Xi Jinping put in place after he consolidated power and unveiled ‘Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era’ in 2017. The talk will discuss how the Global South is the central pivot of this strategy, which is about delivering the ‘China Dream of national rejuvenation’ by forging a ‘common destiny for humankind’. The pathway to fulfilling this goal laid down by Xi is to ‘democratize international relations’, for which securing the support of the Global South is essential.
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Steve Tsang
Director of SOAS China Institute
Steve is the Director of the SOAS China Institute. Before taking on his current position in 2016, he was the Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, and before that a Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is a frequent commentator for the BBC, including for programmes like Newsnight, Ten o’clock News, BBC News Channel, Today, World at One, PM, BBC World Service's various programmes such as Newshour and World Tonight.