“China’s Global Security Report exposes fundamental flaws in Beijing’s worldview”, First Post, 04, 2026

“The 2025 Global Security Situation assessment report by the China Institute of International Studies (CISS) that was released recently appears at a glance a structured and coherent report, offering a clear sense of direction in an increasingly unstable world. It lays out the risks, identifies trends and then moves towards a framework that promises order through cooperation and shared security. But the more closely the report is examined, the more its internal contradictions begin to surface. The realities of the world it documents of rising unilateralism, intensifying conflicts and weakening of the institutions do not align easily with the solutions it proposes. The analysis begins to reveal a deeper dichotomy as the report is trying to describe a world that has already changed while still relying on solutions based on the assumptions from the older systems that it points out is steadily fading.

It is this dichotomy that becomes most visible in the way the report concludes. The conclusion of the China Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development is written with a sense of assurance. It presents the world as if it has reached a difficult moment but one that can still be corrected with the right approach with China in the central role. It points towards ideas like global cooperation, shared security and collective responsibility, suggesting that while the global system is under pressure, it is still holding together and can be repaired using familiar tools, with China being a central player.

But when this tone is compared with the realities described in the report itself, the contradiction becomes hard to ignore. The world being described is not one that is waiting for guidance or correction. It is a world that has already begun to move away from the very assumptions on which that guidance was based……”

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