The International Crisis Group published on 21 October 2022 an analysis titled "The Foreign Policy Implications of China's Twentieth Party Congress" by Amanda Hsiao and Ivy Kwek.
China is facing growing challenges at home and abroad. The report for the 20th Party Congress reflects a greater aspiration to challenge Western dominance. It downplays the Belt and Road Initiative and highlights the new and still ill-defined Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative.
