China has a worthy blueprint to improve the UN system. Why is the West ignoring it?

Many around the world will recall the striking image of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi standing side by side at the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in September. It was there that China unveiled one of its most consequential diplomatic proposals in recent memory: the Global Governance Initiative (GGI). Yet a quick scan reveals how little coverage this moment received in mainstream Western media. Asking “why”...