An “institutionalised” China-US G2 framework could offer a “structural guarantee” for global peace in a world beset by crises, a high-profile adviser to Beijing has said.Zheng Yongnian, a noted Chinese political scientist, said the world was faced with four intertwined challenges – geopolitical conflicts, increasingly “religionised” societies, imbalances in the global economy and the fading of the UN-centred governance system. He characterised this collective breakdown as a “crisis of modernity”.A pressing question was how to move beyond the US’ or European Union’s bilateral trade disputes with Beijing, to rebalance the global economy by having all three sides work together, Zheng told the Baichuan Forum in Shenzhen, southern China, on Saturday.
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SAT · 2026-07-11 · 14:30 GMTBRIEF NSR-2026-0711-92255
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Formal China-US G2 framework key to ‘guarantee’ world peace: top Beijing adviser
Zheng Yongnian, a prominent Chinese political scientist and adviser to Beijing, proposed that an institutionalized China-US G2 framework could provide a "structural guarantee" for global peace. Speaking at the Baichuan Forum in Shenzhen on Saturday, he identified four interconnected global challenges: geopolitical conflicts, increasingly "religionised" societies, global economic imbalances, and the weakening of the UN-centered governance system, which he termed a "crisis of modernity." Zheng suggested that addressing these issues requires cooperation between China, the US, and the EU to rebalance the global economy, moving beyond existing bilateral trade disputes.
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Zheng Yongnian, a prominent Chinese political scientist and adviser to Beijing, proposed that an institutionalized China-US G2 framework could provide a "structural guarantee" for global peace. Speaking at the Baichuan Forum in Shenzhen on Saturday, he identified four interconnected global challenges: geopolitical conflicts, increasingly "religionised" societies, global economic imbalances, and the weakening of the UN-centered governance system, which he termed a "crisis of modernity." Zheng suggested that addressing these issues requires cooperation between China, the US, and the EU to rebalance the global economy, moving beyond existing bilateral trade disputes.
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Moving beyond US or EU bilateral trade disputes with Beijing is a pressing question to rebalance the global economy.
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The collective breakdown of global systems is characterised as a 'crisis of modernity'.
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The world is faced with four intertwined challenges: geopolitical conflicts, increasingly religionised societies, global economic imbalances, and the fading of the UN-centred governance system.
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An institutionalised China-US G2 framework could offer a structural guarantee for global peace.
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