The Global Security Initiative: A new security pathway for Africa and the Global South

When Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Global Security Initiative (GSI) at the Boao Forum for Asia in April 2022, the world was entering a period of profound geopolitical turbulence. 

Conflicts were multiplying, strategic competition was intensifying and traditional and non-traditional security threats were becoming increasingly interconnected.

For much of the Global South, however, the central security problem is not simply military confrontation.

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