Takeaways: Quotes - Featured in the Episode Steve Tsang Jonathan Fulton

He will see China and the rise of China and the replacement of the liberal international order by a Sinocentric Tianxia order as one which will bring about the democratization of the international order because this will be an order that will benefit the Global South. [...] How about that? Now you can see why the Chinese approach actually has licks in the Global South and with the support of the Global South, China can and is already changing the way how key UN agencies operates, and when those changes happened, then we are going to see the international order try be transformed from the Western dominated liberal international order into the Sino centric tensor order. [...] So this to me, I I thought you gave a really great overview of when we see things like the GSI and GDI and GCI and how China's engaging with the global South, and when you framed it as an alternative to the the Cold War, I was at a conference in India last weekend, and there's a lot of talk of, you know, are we in a new Cold War or not? And one of the reasons why I have a hard time with this metap. [...] And this is why for all the problems with the Belt and Road Initiative and the shrinking capacity of Chinese finance, the Chinese government is still committed to sustaining the Belt and Road Initiative. [...] We have to make us beautiful, not only in our own eyes but in the eyes of countries in the Global South that they think we represents a better future, not only for ourselves, but for them and for the world collectively because that's the message Xi Jinping is putting through to the global South, and he is getting much greater buy in than we generally are willing to acknowledge.