Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, in Beijing, May 16, 2024. SERGEI GUNEYEV/AP There is enough to get lost, between all the acronyms. There is the BRICS, a group originally made up of five large “emerging” countries – as long as we consider that Russia is emerging –, now expanded to four other members and which come together with around twenty friendly countries , between Tuesday October 22 and Thursday October 24 in Kazan, Russia. There are also the countries which have joined the “new Silk Roads” (Belt and Road Initiative, BRI), the Central Asian states united with Moscow and Beijing within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). , or the Forum on Sino-African Cooperation (Focac). The list of States concerned is never quite the same, but the summits have similarities: subjects of dispute between participants are left to the cloakroom; the meeting ends with a press release calling for a new, more representative and fairer world order; the United States is not there. And China is the dominant power every time. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers Host of a BRICS summit, Vladimir Putin showcases his non-isolation Add to your selections These different meetings materialize the strategy of Chinese power. To establish itself, it climbs into existing institutions, for example by sending its officials to the management of UN agencies, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, led by a Chinese since 2019. And it shapes other, parallel ones. The diplomacy of alternative summits to the Western world, embodied by the G7, allows Beijing to push its world vision according to which one political model – liberal democracy – is not more legitimate than another, and the right to economic progress may override other human rights. Putting an end to the American-centric order China above all wants to show that a majority of the world’s population agrees on the need to put an end to the American-centric order. The omnipotence of the dollar, the network of military alliances of the United States, the vision of human rights including political freedoms and freedom of expression defended at the UN are all elements that People’s China intends to weaken to be accepted. These formats have multiplied since Xi Jinping came to power in November 2012: they now form a regular calendar with, each time, China at the center of the photo. As recently as September, from September 4 to 6, the Chinese capital welcomed representatives from 53 of the 54 African states – Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, being the only one on the continent to recognize Taipei and not Beijing. You have 62.12% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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