Mauritius Cited as Key Partner in China’s 5-Point Plan for Global Governance Vision

Chinese President Xi Jinping has proposed a new Global Governance Initiative (GGI), setting out a “Chinese wisdom and solution to strengthen and improve global governance” amid a “turbulent world” marked by regional turmoil, impeded economic development, and a “deficit in governance.”

The initiative was solemnly proposed during the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Tianjin Summit, an event that also marks the 80th anniversary of the World Anti-Fascist War victory and the founding of the United Nations.

The GGI has been welcomed and supported by the international community as timely and crucial, responding to common aspirations and urgent global needs.

Core Principles and Wider Context

The GGI is built on five core tenets designed to address the gaps and challenges in the present global governance system:

• Sovereign Equality: The foremost premise, requiring that all countries—regardless of size, strength, or wealth—have their sovereignty respected, their domestic affairs free from external interference, and the right to participate in and benefit from global governance as equals.
• It calls for promoting greater democracy in international relations to increase the representation and voice of developing countries.
• International Rule of Law: The fundamental safeguard, demanding the unwavering upholding of the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter and the authority of international law. Major countries, in particular, must lead in advocating for this principle.
• Multilateralism: The basic pathway, which requires upholding the principle of extensive consultation and joint contribution for shared benefit. It rejects unilateralism and advocates for enhancing, not weakening, the U.N.’s role as the core platform for its practice.
• People-Centred Approach: The underpinning value, which seeks to reform the system to inspire a greater sense of fulfilment, safety, and well-being among peoples through accelerated common development and effective response to global challenges.
• Real Results: An important principle that defines effective global governance as one that resolves real problems. It mandates that governance be carried out in a coordinated, systematic, and holistic way, with developed countries providing more resources and public goods, and developing countries working together.

The GGI joins three other major proposals by China—the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative—to form four mutually reinforcing global initiatives.

Together, they address development, security, civilization, and governance, respectively, and are intended to “inject stability and certainty” while charting the course for a community with a shared future for mankind.

Addressing Global Challenges and Partnership

The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Mauritius, H.E. Dr. HUANG Shifang, framed the GGI as a necessary response to a chaotic international landscape characterised by regional turmoil, impeded economic development, a backlash against globalisation, and an intensifying deficit in governance.

Both China and nations like Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island developing state, are confronted by multiple challenges including hegemonism, unilateralism, and trade protectionism.

These issues, the Ambassador noted, stem partly from deficiencies in the current governance system and the insufficient voice of developing countries.

Mauritius is acknowledged as an active advocate of the U.N. system and multilateralism, and a spokesperson for developing nations.

To tackle these challenges, China is not only proposing these initiatives but also implementing them through platforms such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and zero-tariff arrangements for African countries, which have aided governance through development.

China pledged its firm support for Mauritius in safeguarding its sovereignty and upholding its legitimate development interests.

The two nations look forward to deepening practical cooperation and jointly implementing the GGI to contribute to building a more just and equitable global governance system.

Source: Defi Media