Commentary
While China will remain a significant political and economic force in the Global South, its ambition to leverage the Global South as a counterbalance to the United States and the Global North is far from assured.
Xue Gong
Research
The Arrival of the Multi-order World and Its Geopolitical Implications
Portraying the world as multipolar belies the complexity, significance, and extent of recent changes and could have disastrous policy consequence. In a multi-order world, relationships within orders are as important as relations between orders.
By Trine Flockhart
Published on Feb 24, 2026
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