Formal China-US G2 framework key to ‘guarantee’ world peace: top Beijing adviser

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A Beijing adviser has advocated for a formalized China-US G2 framework as a structural guarantee for global peace amidst multiple challenges including geopolitical conflicts and economic imbalances. The adviser highlighted the fading influence of the UN-centered governance system.

An “institutionalised” China-US G2 framework could offer a “structural guarantee” for global peace in a world beset by crises, a high-profile adviser to Beijing has said. Zheng Yongnian, a noted Chinese political scientist, said the world was faced with four intertwined challenges – geopolitical conflicts, increasingly “religionised” societies, imbalances in the global economy and the fading of the UN-centred governance system. He characterised this collective breakdown as a “crisis of...