October 30—Under the motto “Rebuilding Trust and Cooperation: Reforming and Improving Global Governance in a Changing World,” the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs hosted the three-day “Xiong’an Global Governance Forum 2026” on the last weekend of October.

The weight that the Chinese government and the governments of the Global South attach to the subject of global governance can be seen from the list of participants alone: many current and former policymakers from more than ninety countries were represented, including more than a dozen former foreign ministers and ministers of other departments, as well as more than one hundred leading figures each from academia and from government advisory institutions around the world. Four former heads of state or government had even come to Xiong’an, among them former Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The delegates also included numerous senior UN officials and heads of other international institutions. Business and youth delegates from dozens of countries took part in the deliberations as well. The Schiller Institute was represented by its founder, Helga Zepp-LaRouche.