“In an era dominated by US–China tensions, we’ve shifted our eyes away from multilateralism,” said Emmanuel Daniel, founder and chairman of The Asian Banker, at the CGTN dialogue marking the UN’s 80th anniversary. Over time, he added, multilateralism “became very ideologically driven… by the time it reached the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they were packaged as an ideology rather than a practical solution.”
Daniel was joined by Erik Solheim, former UN under-secretary-general and chairman of the Europe Asia Centre, and Zhu Xian, former vice president of the World Bank and New Development Bank and current vice president and secretary general of the International Finance Forum, to explore how global governance, development finance and private capital must evolve to reflect a multipolar world shaped increasingly by regional actors and…
