How to manage global governance under great power competition?

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For the Singaporean scholar Kishore Mahbubani, the tension between China and the United States is a repeat of what history has shown us many times – the hegemony will always try to suppress the rising power. According to British scholar Martin Jacques, America's distrust towards China comes after the Financial Crisis. Suddenly, America saw that China was stronger than it imagined and its dependency on China was a lot more than it realized. If competition is unavoidable, is conflict destined to be beyond control? In this turbulent time full of geopolitical shifts, where is global governance headed? How should the global system navigate this change?

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