Summit offers road map for building a fairer world order
On Sept 4, 2016, while addressing the 11th G20 Summit in Hangzhou, President Xi Jinping urged participating global leaders to make the grouping "an action force, rather than a talking shop".
On Sunday, at the Business Forum of the 9th BRICS Summit in Xiamen, Xi made the same reference, only this time he said BRICS is not a talking shop, but "a task force that gets things done".
The delicate contrast in rhetoric is a thought-provoking hallmark of what China, a relative newcomer to the stage of global governance, is seeking. From Xi's two major speeches before the release of the Xiamen Declaration and dozens of cooperation projects endorsed thereby, as well as "BRICS Plus" discussions, there is an explicit Chinese eagerness to maneuver actual changes the world desperately needs in these times of uncertainties.
