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China in the Global South: Development and influence in a shifting global order
Spotlight event
The Global China Hub and the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School Global Affairs hosted an in-person public conference on February 21 and February 22 looking at China in the Global South.
After decades of being relegated to the periphery of China’s geostrategy, the regions of what is now collectively termed the Global South have become an essential component of China’s external engagement and foreign policy. China is now a central player in the economic and technological development of countries across the developing world, with significant implications for these countries’ trajectories as well as their relations with the United States and other developed democracies. At the same time, China’s growing influence in these regions is increasingly hampered by systemic factors. These dynamics all play out against the backdrop of escalating Sino-US strategic economic, security and technological rivalry, and transnational security threats like pandemics, climate change, and terrorism.
This conference will tackle these issues and more, with a particular focus on convening a diverse group of experts from the Global South as well as from the private sector and US and allied governments to kickstart innovative and collaborative policy solutions to mounting strategic rivalry in the Global South and that help ensure engagement with China serves the interests of developing countries.
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