Round-table “China’s Growing Role in the Global South”

China’s strategic policy in 2024 is becoming increasingly global, allowing China to consolidate and successfully develop diplomatic, political and economic relations with the countries of the Global South, forming a partnership base that allows it to successfully compete with, and often supplant, the EU and the US, whose presence was dominant in the post-colonial order. Together with its increased investment in infrastructure projects, agrarian and light industry, and soft power, China offers its vision of the role of the Global South in the context of the prevailing need for world reordering. 

Date: 25 April, 2024

Time: 18:00 PM (Kyiv time)

Format: online (Zoom) 

Language: English 

• Dr. Taiyi Sun, Assistant Professor of the Political Science Department at Christopher Newport University
• Petro Shevchenko, China expert, author for LB.ua
• Alexey Chigadayev, Chinese scholar, Master’s student in Chinese Studies, University of Leipzig

You are invited to participate in a panel discussion on China’s expanding influence in the Global South. The discussion will cover topics such as the implications of China’s relationship with the Global South, including sovereignty, economic and political challenges. The prospects for the China-Global South relationship and its impact on global governance will also be examined. The panel will explore how China’s growing influence affects the balance of power in global politics. Regional and international reactions to China’s presence in the Global South will be discussed, and the panelists will consider which presence strategy is likely to prevail in the ongoing global competition for power. The role of past dominant powers in shaping this landscape will also be addressed.

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