DODOMA, Sept. 4 -- WHEN Xi Jinping, President of the Peoples Republic of China, proposed the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), he placed Africa and other developing regions at the centre of an increasingly important global conversation: how can the international system become fairer, more inclusive and more responsive to the needs of developing countries and ordinary people?

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Plus Meeting in early September 2025, President Xi Jinping officially put forward the Global Governance Initiative, offering the Chinese answer to this question of our times.

This major initiative features and advocates five core concepts: first, sovereign equality to ensure participation in global affairs by all countries;...