Zhou Bo: China’s alternative to Western power

Retired Senior Colonel Zhou Bo of the People’s Liberation Army joins Sreenivasan Jain to make the case for China’s vision of a multipolar world – one Beijing says would be fairer, more balanced and less dominated by a single superpower. But does China’s conduct, from the South China Sea to its dealings with the Global South, match its rhetoric?

Zhou offers a rare view from inside the Chinese establishment on where the world order is heading.