Grow together or sink together’: Why China-US cooperation is vital to global stability

From the report

The international order is undergoing a profound transformation as global power shifts away from its traditional Western centers toward Asia and the Global South. Against this backdrop, improving relations between China and the United States has become increasingly important-not only for the two powers themselves, but also for the stability, security and prosperity of the wider world.

This was a central theme of the 12th North Pavilion Dialogue, organized by the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. At a public forum on October 16, four prominent international affairs experts discussed the changing balance of power, the growing influence of middle powers, the strategic choices facing the Global South and the future of China-US relations.

Shivshankar Menon, India’s former national security adviser and foreign secretary, argued that the world is returning to a historical pattern in which power is distributed among a wider range of countries rather than concentrated in a small number of dominant states.