G-20 summit: China to focus on positives
G-20 agenda likely to flesh out China's vision for global order, with focus on long-term rather than immediate concerns. It's a key step in its growth as a global leader.
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WITH the approach of the Group of 20 summit in Hangzhou, there is expectation that China might clarify its position on the contested South China Sea. Contrary to expectations, those Asian neighbours and Western leaders who want to seize the occasion to press China on immediate issues will be disappointed. There will be little space to question publicly China's drive into the South China and East China Seas, to seek confirmed implementation by China of UN sanctions targeting North Korea, to ask for more direct involvement by China in resolving the most urgent issue of our time - the Middle East in tatters and resulting refugee flows - or even to challenge China's record-breaking attack on human rights and legal activists at home.
Instead, the summit offers China's leader Xi Jinping a unique occasion to shine and for China to extoll its complementary - or alternative - vision of the global order.
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