978-981-95-9453-5

China, New Geopolitics and Global Governance

Editors: Henry Huiyao Wang & Mabel Lu Miao

ISBN: 978-981-95-9453-5

Published in March 2026

Published by Springer Nature

 

About the Book

 

This open access book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on the rise of China, from evolving geopolitics,world economy, US-China relations, and EU-China relations, to major global issues like climate change, global governance and the emerging of Global South in policy development.

The fifty-one dialogues contained in this book are transcripts from the “CCG Global Dialogues” of online discussions hosted by the CCG President Henry Huiyao Wang in conversation with Global opinion leaders from renowned scholars of international relations, economics, and history, to journalists, policymakers, and business leaders.

The speakers featured in this book are Graham Allison, Paige Alexander, Fred Bergsten, Kerry Brown, Neil Bush, Barry Buzan, Kent E. Calder, Ronnie Chan, Ray Dalio, Niall Ferguson, David Firestein, Arancha Gonzalez, Richard Haass, John Hamre, Wolfgang Ischinger, William Kirby, David Lampton, Pascal Lamy, Leslie Maasdorp, Liu Yawei, Kishore Mahbubani, Aaditya Mattoo, Joseph Nye, Lord Jim O’Neill, Douglas Paal, Henry Paulson, Noah Pickus, Stephen Roach, Anthony Saich, Lawrence H. Summers, Susan Thornton, Justin Vaisse, Martin Wolf and Wang Shi.

These wide-ranging discussions offer unique insights and perspectives on key trends shaping our world in the 21st century, China’s relations with the world, the global challenges we face and ways in which we can salvage multilateralism and reform global governance, while also touching on new trends and tensions in geopolitics, as well as the evolving issues on China and globalization, the world economic outlook and transnational threats, and how the various actors to play a positive role in promoting peace and prosperity in the post-pandemic era.

This book is the latest volume of China and Globalization series edited by Henry Huiyao Wang, founder and president of Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and Mabel Lu Miao, Secretary-General of CCG. This series is designed to have a wide range of global views on issues related to China and Globalization, opportunities and challenges on China’s rise to the world and China’s roles in global governance, global economy, global development and global security. It outlines China’s international relations with major global powers and the rest of the world and it contains recommendations and proposals for the future of sustainable development, prospects of China’s further capital and market liberalization, and China’s globalizing trajectories as experienced by the world.

The first of its kind to publish the works of over two hundred contributors internationally, this book series seeks to create a balanced global perspective by gathering the views of highly influential global opinion leaders, former statesmen, ambassadors, well known academics and think tank experts, multinational CEOs and foreign chambers of commerce from China and around the world.

 

Contents

 

Preface

Introduction

Part Ⅰ Adapting to a Changing Geopolitical Environment

 

Shifting Sands

The Rapidly Evolving Geopolitical Changes Currently Facing the World

Henry Huiyao Wang and Jeppe Kofod

On Escaping Thucydides’s Trap

Henry Huiyao Wang and Graham Allison

Escaping Thucydides’s Trap

Henry Huiyao Wang and Graham Allison

Shifting Sands of Soft Power in the Context of Great-Power Competition

Henry Huiyao Wang and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

 

A Path Forward

Front-Row Beijing: Foreign Policy Perspectives with Ravi Agrawal and Henry Wang

Henry Huiyao Wang and Ravi Agrawal

Building a Floor for China-US Relations: Scenarios and Recommendations

Henry Huiyao Wang, Susan A. Thornton, and Douglas H. Paal

Challenges and Changes—Moving Forward for the US and China in a Post-pandemic World

Henry Huiyao Wang and Ray Dalio

 

US-China Relations in a Multiploar World

Making Sense of Trump’s Foreign Policy

Henry Huiyao Wang and Peter Trubowitz

From Trump 1.0 to 2.0: Transitions and Analysis of China-US Relations

Henry Huiyao Wang and Suisheng Zhao

The Future and Challenge of China-US Relations

Henry Huiyao Wang, Edwin J. Feulner and Walter Lohman

The Future of Great Power Relations: How Can the US and China Co-exist?

Henry Huiyao Wang, Graham Allison, and Leo Liu

Navigating Differences and Finding Common Ground in US-China Relations

Henry Huiyao Wang, Da Hsuan Feng, and Zhiqun Zhu

The Secretariat Solution—a G2 foundation for Future of China-US Relations

Henry Huiyao Wang and Stephen S. Roach

 

China and Europe

History at a Turning Point: Pandemic, Ukraine, and the Changing Relations Between China, Europe, and the United States

Henry Huiyao Wang and Niall Ferguson

China, Germany, Europe in an Uncertain Time: a Conversation on the Intersection of Diplomacy and Business

Henry Huiyao Wang and Wolfgang Ischinger

China-Europe Relations: Risks and Opportunities

Henry Huiyao Wang and Peter Mandelson

 

The Asian Century

What Will Life Be Like in a Likely Asian Century

Henry Huiyao Wang and Kishore Mahbubani

The Rise of Asia and Its Implications for an Increasingly Multipolar World

Henry Huiyao Wang, Kishore Mahbubani, Kent E. Calder, and Kerry Brown

 

Lessons from History for the Future

The Jimmy Carter Legacy and Lessons for Moral Leadership in the 21st Century

Henry Huiyao Wang, Paige Alexander, and Liu Yawei

The Bush Legacy and Beyond: a 50-Year Retrospective of US-China Exchange

Henry Huiyao Wang, Neil Bush, and David J. Firestein

New Realities of US-China Relations in an Interwoven World

Henry Huiyao Wang, Susan A. Thornton, and Ronnie C. Chan

Quo Vadis—at a Crossroads in US-China relations

Henry Huiyao Wang, Anthony Saich, and Ye Tian

 

Part Ⅱ Managing Global Economic Uncertainties

 

The Overall Outlook

The Outlook for Globalization: Productive Competition as an Alternative to Cooperation

Henry Huiyao Wang and Barry Buzan

Outlook on the Global Economy in an Era of Remained Integration

Henry Huiyao Wang and Martin Wolf

Global Economic Prospects: The Global Economy Is Rebounding, but Growth Is Expected to Slow

Henry Huiyao Wang, M. Ayhan Kose, Martin Raiser, and Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze

 

Making Trade Work

Reimaginig the International Trading System for Re-Globalization

Henry Huiyao Wang and Pascal Lamy

Making Trade Work for Prosperity, People and Planet

Henry Huiyao Wang and Arancha González Laya

 

The Economics of US-China Relations

What’s Next for the Global Economic Leadership Amid Rising US-China Tensions?

Henry Huiyao Wang and C. Fred Bergsten

Global Economy and Sino-US Relations

Henry Huiyao Wang and Lawrence H. Summers

The Global Economic Outlook and its Implications for China

Henry Huiyao Wang and Stephen S. Roach

 

Economic Incentives and “Bilateral + Multilateral” Cooperation

China-Estonia Economic and Trade Cooperation, and the Future Development of China-Europe Relations

Henry Huiyao Wang and Margus Tsahkna

Croatia as a Mediterranean and Central European Connection between the European Union and Asia: Perspectives for Cooperation with China

Henry Huiyao Wang and Gordon Grlić-Radman

China, Papua New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands: Cooperation for a Sustainable 21st Century

David Morris and Peter O’Neill

Taking China-Brazil Relations to the Next Level

Henry Huiyao Wang and Marcos Galvão

“Ba Tie”—the Time Tested Ironclad Brotherhood between China and Pakistan

Henry Huiyao Wang and Moin ul Haque

Africa and China: Natural Partners Choosing Their Own Development Pathways

Henry Huiyao Wang and Teshome Toga Chanaka

 

Newly Emerging Regional Forces

20 Years on: the Future of the BRICS and Globalization

Henry Huiyao Wang, Jim O’Neill, and Leslie W. Maasdorp

Future of BRI and B3W: Competition or Collaboration?

Henry Huiyao Wang and David M. Lampton

 

Part Ⅲ Addressing Common Global Biggest Issues

 

Fundamental Issues and Challenges

Inclusive Leadership for a Fragmented World: Women in Global Governance

Mabel Lu Miao and María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés

The Global Green Transition and China’s Role: A Historical Perspective

Henry Huiyao Wang and Adam Tooze

The Ethical Foundations and Global Governance of AI Development

Henry Huiyao Wang and Gabriela Ramos

Democracy in China, Trump’s Planned Tariffs, How the West Misunderstands China, and More

Henry Huiyao Wang and Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy

 

The Importance of Learning and Education

The Modern University and China-US Education Exchanges

Henry Huiyao Wang and William C. Kirby

When Aristotle Meets Confucius – a dialogue through time exploring the wisdom of different ages

Henry Huiyao Wang, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Farah Nayeri

How to Attract 50,000 Young Americans to China

Henry Huiyao Wang, David Zweig, and Mabel Lu Miao

The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century

David Qingzhong Pan and Noah M. Pickus

Empires of Ideas: Universities, Exchanges and the Lessons they Teach Us

Henry Huiyao Wang and William C. Kirby

 

Platforms for Discussion to Navigate Storms of Global Discord

Open Discussion the Key to Peaceful Global Governance

Henry Huiyao Wang and Justin Vaïsse

Navigating an Imperfect Storm: Think Tanks in a Changing World Order

Henry Huiyao Wang and Richard N. Haass

Advancing the 2030 Agenda in Uncertain Times: Sustainability and the Quest for China-US Cooperation

Henry Huiyao Wang, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., and Wang Shi

Think Tanks and American Foreign Policy

Henry Huiyao Wang and John J. Hamre

 

Acknowledgements

About the Center for China and Globalization

About CCG Global Dialogues

About China and Globalization Forums

About China Global Think Tank Innovation Forums

About CCG VIP Luncheons

Selected CCG Webinars, Roundtables and Track II Dialogues

About CCG’s Publications

 

 

Editors and Contributors

 

About the Editors

 

Henry Huiyao Wang, Ph.D. is the Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a think tank ranked among top 100 think tanks in the world. He had been appointed as Counselor to China’s State Council (China’s Cabinet) by Chinese Premier. He is now a distinguished Professor of China Foreign Affairs University and was a Dean of Institute of Development Research of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.

 

Dr. Wang has pursued PhD studies at University of Western Ontario and Manchester University and obtained his Ph.D. degree in international management. He was a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Fellow at Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Brookings Institution. He used to work at Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in Beijing and also served as Chief Trade Representative for Canada Quebec Government in Hong Kong and Greater China. He was a member of Advisory Board of International Organization of Migration (IOM) of the UN. In addition, Dr. Wang is a Paris Peace Forum Steering Committee Member, Duke Kunshan University Advisory Board Member and Ivey Business School Asia Advisory Board Member.

 

Professor Wang is a global thought leader on globalization, global governance and China international relations. Dr. Wang has published over 100 Chinese and English books and hundreds of articles and papers related to globalization, global governance, global migration, China’s international relations, China’s migrations, China’s outbound investments. He is the Chief Editor of Springer Nature’s “China and Globalization Book Series”. His latest English books include: Escaping Thucydides’s Trap: Dialogue with Graham Allison on China-US Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World (Springer, 2022); Award winning book Consensus or Conflict? China and Globalization in the 21st Century (Springer, 2021); The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises: Trends and Characteristics (Springer, 2020); China’s Domestic and International Migration Development (Springer, 2019); and Handbook on China and Globalization (Edward Elgar, 2019).

 

Mabel Lu Miao, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder and Secretary-General of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a Munich Security Conference (MSC) Young Leader, Founder of Global Young Leaders Dialogue (GYLD) and Executive Director of Alliance of Global Talent Organizations (AGTO). She is also an Adjunct Professor of University of International Business and Economics, Professor at Huaqiao University, Postgraduate Supervisor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Researcher at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and a Senior Fellow of Lee Kuan Yew Public Policy School of National University of Singapore. She received her Ph.D. in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Beijing Normal University and has been a visiting scholar at New York University’s China House and the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. Dr. Miao is a co-author on many Chinese Social Science Academy blue books and Chinese Social Science Foundation’s research project reports. Dr. Miao has co-authored with Dr. Huiyao Wang in publishing and editing a number of books in Chinese and English, which detail developments in China’s international business and world migration and global governance. These publications in English include: International Migration of China: Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration (2017); China’s Domestic and International Migration Development (2019); Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future (2022); China and the World in a Changing Context: Perspectives from Ambassadors to China (2022); Strategies for Chinese Enterprises Going Global (2023); The Challenge of “Going Out”: Chinese Experiences in Outbound Investment (2023); The Future of China’s Development and Globalization: Views from Ambassadors to China (2024); Enhancing Global Governance in a Fragmented World: Prospects, Issues, and the Role of China (2024); and Global Development and Cooperation with China: New Ideas, Policies and Initiatives for a Changing World (2025) .

 

About the Contributors

 

Ravi Agrawal, Editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine

Paige Alexander, CEO of The Carter Center

Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor and Founding Dean of Harvard Kennedy School

Fred Bergsten, Economist, Nonresident Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London

Neil Bush, Founder and Chair of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations

Barry Buzan, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics

Kent E. Calder, Interim Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Edwin O. Reischauer, Professor of East Asian Studies at SAIS

Ronnie C. Chan, Chair Emeritus of the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, Honorary Chair of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited

Teshome Toga Chanaka, diplomat, former Ambassador of Ethiopia to China

Ray Dalio, Founder, CIO mentor and board member of Bridgewater Associates

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, diplomat and politician, President of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Defense, and Coordinating Minister of Natural and Cultural Heritage of Ecuador

Da Hsuan Feng, Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Niall Ferguson, Historian, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University

Edwin J. Feulner, Founder and Former President of The Heritage Foundation

David J. Firestein, Inaugural President and CEO of the George H.W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations

Marcos Galvão, diplomat, Ambassador of Brazil to China

Arancha González Laya, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain

Gordon Grlić-Radman, Diplomat and Politician, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia

Richard N. Haass, Diplomat, former President of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State

John J. Hamre, President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), former US Deputy Secretary of Defense

Moin ul Haque, diplomat, former Ambassador of Pakistan to China

Wolfgang Ischinger, President of the Munich Security Conference Foundation Council, former Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC)

William C. Kirby, T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai, former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard

Jeppe Kofod, Politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

David M. Lampton, George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of SAIS-China and China Studies, former Chairman of The Asia Foundation

Pascal Lamy, Vice President of the Paris Peace Forum, Coordinator of the Jacques Delors think tanks (Paris, Berlin, Brussels), former Director-General of World Trade Organization (WTO)

Leo Liu, MPA candidate at Harvard Kennedy School

Mike Hong Liu, former Managing Director and legal Rep. for DXC Technology in Greater China, former global Vice President, Country Head and legal Rep. for Infosys in Greater China

Yawei Liu, Senior Advisor on China at The Carter Center

Walter Lohman, Former Director at Asian Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation

Leslie W. Maasdorp, Vice President and CFO of the New Development Bank

Kishore Mahbubani, Diplomat, Distinguished Fellow at the Asian Research Institute of the National University of Singapore (NUS), Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS, former ambassador of Singapore to the United Nations

Peter Mandelson, Politician, Co-Founder of Global Counsel, former British Ambassador to the United States

Aaditya Mattoo, Chief Economist of the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank

Mabel Lu Miao, Co-Founder and Secretary-General of the Center for China and Globalizaion (CCG)

David Morris, Diplomat, Chief Executive Officer of the Australia China Business Council (Tasmania), President and Executive Director of 1EarthVillage

Farah Nayeri, Journalist, author and podcast host based in London

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School

Jim O’Neill, economist, Honorary Chair of Economics at Manchester University, Former Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs

Peter O’Neill, Politician, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guine

Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy, President of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas Term 2024, Jurisprudence student at St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

Douglas H. Paal, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

David Qingzhong Pan, Executive Dean and Professor of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University

Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Chairman of Paulson Institute, former Secretary of Treasury of the US, former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs

Noah M. Pickus, Associate Provost at Duke University and Dean for Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation at Duke Kunshan University

Gabriela Ramos, economist and diplomat, UNESCO Director-General for the period 2026–2029, former Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO

Stephen S. Roach, Economist, Senior Research Scholar, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development in the Earth Institute, Columbia University

Anthony Saich, Faculty Chair of the China Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Lawrence H. Summers, economist, President Emeritus and a Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, former Secretary of the Treasury of the US, former President of Harvard University

Susan A. Thornton, Diplomat, Senior Fellow at Paul Tsai China Center of Yale Law School

Ye Tian, Mason Fellow of Harvard Kennedy School

Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and Director of the European Institute Columbia University

Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Phelan United States Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Margus Tsahkna, Politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Justin Vaïsse, Founder and Director General of the Paris Peace Forum

Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), former Councilor to China’s State Council

Wang Shi, Founder and former Chairman of China Vanke, Executive Director of the One Foundation, Independent Director for the World Wildlife Fund

Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times

Suisheng Zhao, Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver

Zhiqun Zhu, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bucknell University

David Zweig, Research Director of the Alliance of Global Talent Organizations (AGTO), Professor emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology