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The 'China's Dream', the name by which China's Grand Political-Military Strategy is known, continues to incite the minds of theorists. But, most of them prefer to analyse China's actions at the tactical level, omitting to show the big picture of the strategy that coordinates all these actions. Actions that aim to put China back on the imperial pedestal from which it was lowered many hundreds of years ago, due to a combination of economic, political and military factors. So, this article aims to present the ends and ways of the Grand Hegemonic Strategy to transform China into a global maritime power. Status that comes to complete China's already existing continental power, in a new hegemonic, continental-maritime format. In this regard, the article uses the geopolitical research method, which combines analysis-synthesis with retrospective and inductive-deductive analysis. The data used are exclusively from open sources, and the research design is linear, starting with the formulation of the working hypothesis, continuing with data collection, analysis and synthesis, and ending with conclusions.

Digital health innovations have emerged globally as a transformative force for addressing health system challenges, particularly in resource-constrained settings. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical importance of these innovations for enhancing public health. In South and Southeast Asia, a region known for its cultural diversity and complex health care landscape, digital health innovations present a dynamic interplay of challenges and opportunities. We advocate for ongoing research built into system development and an evidence-based strategy focusing on designing and scaling national digital health infrastructures combined with a vibrant ecosystem or “marketplace” of local experiments generating shared experience about what works in which settings. As the global digital health revolution unfolds, the perspectives drawn from South and Southeast Asia—including the importance of local partnerships—may provide valuable insights for shaping future strategies and informing similar initiatives in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to effective digital health strategies across diverse global health contexts.

Digital economy empowers the further pursuit and materialization of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It has social efficacy and is governance-oriented in the process of economic globalization, but also has multi-faceted predicaments of governance as well as obstacles to the rule of law. Therefore, the BRI digital economy governance should mediate four relationships at the macro level, and implement the rule of law from three dimensions with the purpose of contributing to constructing global digital governance system.

The greatest dynamical change on a planetary scale has been brought about by China's \"New Silk Road\" or BRI-initiative. It has already succeeded to create a phase shift in international relations for peace and progress through \"win-win\" cooperation, instead of geopolitics and conflict and has established new metrics of economic progress. By applying long-term investments into the physical economy, assisted by new credit institutions (along with the BRICS), BRI has changed fundamentally the productivity platform of whole regions of the world, which were heavily underdeveloped, rather than focusing on short-term monetarist profit. The BRI-initiative has become the largest cross-country infrastructure and industrialization program, that has ever existed on the planet. It is quickly moving towards becoming a World Landbridge, interconnecting all continents and peoples, offering \"win-win\" cooperation for human development. China's BRI-policy offers China's own experience of lifting 700 million people out of poverty to other nations and contributes greatly to realizing globally the most fundamental human right to development, as defined by the UN Charter. At the center, China has taken the lead in science, technology and fundamental research to resolve scientific and technological problems which are holding back global economic and industrial development. Like the Old Silk Road, which promoted civilizational progress by the exchange of knowledge, technologies and cultures, the New Silk Road dynamic enables the development of the creative potential of mankind as the real source of wealth. It is of crucial importance for all European nations, to join this process and reinvigorate its own spirit of innovation, progress and creativity, which made Europe great before. The paper will show how this approach provides the basis for durable peace, including a fruitful dialogue of civilizations.

Civilisational dialogue initiatives are currently considered our best chance to prevent a potential clash between states belonging to different civilisations. Critical approaches to security are concerned with insecurities as experienced by multiple referents, including individuals, social groups, states and the global environment. This article argues that students of critical security studies and proponents of civilisational dialogue initiatives potentially have something to talk about. In presenting a two-step critique of civilisational dialogue initiatives, this article explores such potential, which could allow for further dialogue with a view to addressing insecurities of multiple security referents.

Do the news media especially if they are free, plural and independent of government control have an impact on the quality of governance? To many, the answer to that question is not only obvious, it is blindingly so. The news media have contributed to the improvement of governance in several countries, especially through their ability to expose corrupt deeds and speak truth to power. The problem, however, is that as the governance reform agenda evolves in the field of international development, the role of the news media is still uncertain. Opportunities to strengthen the news media will always depend on the situation in each country, and will always depend on the interplay of forces within each country. In other words, the political economic realities will always determine what can be achieved. What that means is that those who want to improve media systems in their own countries must learn to build effective coalitions. That is where work is really needed. Nonetheless, it is possible to do two things. First, it is possible to bring together how the news media can contribute to good governance outcomes. Second, it is possible to draw the necessary policy implications. This book will contribute to a greater awareness of the potential contributions of independent news media to governance reform efforts around the world.

This report analyzes the cultural heritage sector in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and the World Bank ' s policy and operational experiences in this sector over the past six years, 1996-2001. It has three objectives: 1) to explore the characteristics, capacities, needs, and constraints of the region ' s cultural sector and their relevance to overall country development; 2) to take stock, describe, and analyze the World Bank ' s past and current support for preservation and management of the region ' s cultural heritage; and 3) to extract the lessons of experience and define the strategy framework for future Bank assistance for preserving and managing the MENA region ' s patrimony.