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 Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang, President of Center for China and Globalization:The book also discusses the roles of different countries in global governance, with a particular focus on China’s contributions to advancing global governance modernization and strengthening international cooperation.

Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang, President of Center for China and Globalization and volume co-editor of Enhancing Global Governance in a Fragmented World the book’s featured development process and its content stressing the book is freely accessible to the public and academic communities to broaden its impact. Access to free eBook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-2558-8

President Wang highlighted that the new book brings together the insights of 30 leading figures from global think tanks and includes 25 articles, calling for enhanced worldwide cooperation and inclusive governance to address these challenges and improve the global governance system. 

During the launch and roundtable, globally renowned experts, researchers, and scholars who contributed to this edited volume shared their perspectives on global governance in current geopolitical and economic international relations.

Dr.Jasna Plevnik, President of the Geoeconomic Forum Croatia:If the next decade is dominated by geopolitical rivalries, the world will be plunged into a period of tension and uncertainty.

Jasna Plevnik, President of the Geoeconomic Forum Croatia laid out three main points that she elaborated in her essay China's role in modernization and stabilisation of the contemporary post-Cold War order: a new global order has not been established, and the future of economic interdependence of the world depends on China and the United States; China and the United States have very different development paths in economic globalisation and geopolitics. And third, if the next decade is dominated by geopolitical rivalries, the world will be plunged into a period of tension and uncertainty. She called on China and the US to change the world through cooperation and argued that military conflict between China and the US remains unlikely in the future.

Read Jasna Plevnik’s full speech as prepared below.

“Good day to all! I want to thank the editors and publisher for this forceful book that discusses the most urgent questions of the current world and China’s role in it.

It seems the book that is launching today has been written largely with in mind the necessity of stronger international cooperation, a new kind of multilateralism, and improved global governance. It is critical to focus right now on global governance because that force for providing global public goods becomes less capable of balancing common and national interests among states fairly.

My essay tries to point out three things.

The first point- there is no „un monde nouveau". The new world order still does not exist. 

American unipolar power is not as strong as it has been,  but the new multipolar global order has not been built yet.

The future of the world depends as much on China as on America. So, the second issue I discuss in the essay is why the two leading global powers China and the US  have fundamentally different approaches to the world order, economic globalization, and geopolitics. 

China’s global role has been conceived and managed in line with the idea of more equal globalization, and its multilateral global initiatives’ the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the BRI, the GSI, the GDI, and the GCI, have the power to be factors of stability and peaceful and gradual modernization of the world order from hegemony and unipolarity towards multipolarity at all levels of the world order.

Opening China to a new stage of high-quality development after the Third Plenum could be understood in America as a further confrontation with its economic interests and strategic ambitions across the world. Whoever wins in America's Presidential elections suppressing China economically and strategically at global and regional levels will continue.

The third point is what will happen to the world if geopolitics,  a game of contesting among the major powers, defines the next decade. We are already in a period of strong geopolitical tensions and unpredictability. If the USA continues to apply economic globalization's standards and cooperation in high technology areas only to its strategic allies it will not just ruin the essence of economic interdependence of the world but will reduce the number of neutral countries and increase the chances of bloc military confrontations.

I know very well there are many reasons to see myself as a victim of China- USA  cooperation enthusiasm. Anyhow, I have faith that both powers have a moral duty and strength to change the world for the better, and for that, they must cooperate to resolve pressing global problems from security, and climate change to financial instability, and avoid conflict. A military conflict between America and China is not an option now, or in a hundred years.  Only cooperation is acceptable.

Thank you for listening to me and bye, bye. And cheers to  global cooperation.”

Here you have access to the launch and roundtable of the book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6RFMIEL4lg