ISTANBUL

Amid more than 50 ongoing conflicts around the world, China’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI) has been a call for “stronger solidarity,” the country’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday.

Wang was addressing the Lanting Forum in Beijing to discuss how to improve global governance, expand solidarity and cooperation, according to a transcript of his speech.

He said that while the UN was 80 years old, the “dregs of unilateralism are stirring up again, and global challenges are emerging one after another.”

Introducing President Xi Jinping’s GGI, Wang said it offers the “Chinese answer” to the question on how to reform and improve global governance.

Early in September, Xi proposed the CGI during a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the northern city of Tianjin in China.

Wang said that the initiative features and advocates five core concepts: sovereign equality, international rule of law for a just and orderly global governance system, multilateralism for greater solidarity and cooperation among all countries, a people-centered approach, and real results for a pragmatic and efficient global governance process.

A world “marked by transformation and turbulence, is in greater need of enhanced global governance than ever before,” he said.

“Blind worship of might, power politics and bullying will only push the world back to the law of the jungle, and seriously undermine the foundation of the international system and rules,” he warned.

Xi's proposal of the GGI has “sent a strong message that countries must come together to meet challenges, forging a consensus, and a force for solidarity and cooperation to overcome division and confrontation.”

Stressing the reform of the UN Security Council, Wang said the “pressing task is to make special arrangements to meet Africa’s aspiration as a priority.”

“China believes that the Global South not only has the will and the right but also the capacity to be a pivotal force in global governance reform,” he added.