Joseph Liow Chin Yong: CHINA AND THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER

The rules-based international order – that the EU is particularly
 keen to  uphold – is under pressure, and not just
since February 2022.  Balances of powers are shifting as war
continues on European soil,  an  global gas and food
prices are rising.  Regional powers and regional
 international organisations – such as the Shanghai
Cooperation  Organisation – that were long deemed of
secondary relevance by the  European political establishment
– seem to grow in self-confidence and  international agency.
China’s role in all of this is pivotal.


Our conversation will explore what exactly are China’s interests
today and what tools and allies Beijing has to advance them.


Joseph Liow Chin Yong is Tan Kah Kee Chair in
 Comparative and International Politics at Nanyang
Technological  University (NTU), Singapore. He is Professor
and former Dean at the S.  Rajaratnam School of
International Studies, and currently Dean of  College of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at NTU Singapore. His
 research interests encompass social movements in Southeast
Asia and the  geopolitics and geoeconomics of the Asia
Pacific region.
Joseph Liow Chin Yong is the author, co-author, or editor of 14
books.  His most recent single-authored books are Ambivalent
Engagement: The  United States and Regional Security in
Southeast Asia after the Cold War  (Brookings 2017),
Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia (Cambridge
 University Press, 2016) and Dictionary of the Modern
Politics of  Southeast Asia, fourth edition (Routledge,
2014). A regular columnist  for The Straits Times, his
commentaries on international affairs have  also appeared in
New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy,  National
Interest, Nikkei Asian Review, and the Wall Street Journal.


Irene Giner-Reichl, Ambassador (ret.)