Director Chestnut Greitens writes on China’s bid to reshape the global security order.

On Monday, September 22, 2025, the Financial Times ran an analysis piece from Dr. Chestnut Greitens tied to the recently concluded Global Public Security Cooperation Forum in Lianyungang.

In the article, Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens details China’s push to reshape global security governance through its annual Global Public Security Cooperation Forum. The forum is presented as an alternative to a Western-led military-centric security order. Dr. Greitens argues that China’s bid to reshape global security order is increasingly based on the narrative that China is the safest country in the world (and the U.S. is unsafe), and given the rapid expansion of the forum, that approach looks like it might work.

Read the article here!