One concrete idea that gives form and shape to the type of new international order that Beijing has in mind is China’s advocacy of its development model for the world at large. This has been gathering in momentum since Xi first floated the idea at the Nineteenth Party Congress in 2017, when he said that China would not only “take an active part in reforming and developing the global governance system” but also offer “Chinese wisdom and a Chinese approach to solving the problems facing mankind,” including by “blazing a new trail for other developing countries to achieve modernization.” As noted
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