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May 30, 2026 25 min

Interview: Pragmatic China and Multilateral Organisations

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Over the past decade, China has launched a remarkable number of multilateral initiatives — from the Belt and Road to BRICS to a suite of so-called Global Initiatives covering development, security, and civilisation. Western analysts have tended to read these as evidence of a Chinese project to displace the existing international order. Guest: Dr Joel Ng (Senior Fellow and Head of the Centre for Multilateralism Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore) Book: The Dragon’s Emerging Order: Sinocentric Multilateralism and Global Responses Recorded on 27th March, 2026.

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