TREE NEWS update: Chinese Ambassador to the Netherlands Shen Bo and Hague Conference on Private International Law Secretary-General Christophe Bernasconi signed a memorandum of understanding in The Hague on the 16th on cooperation to strengthen global governance. The MOU affirms the significance of China’s Global Governance Initiative and commits both sides to cooperating in ways consistent with its five core principles, to advancing the initiative in international law, to strengthening exchanges on the formulation and implementation of international conventions, and to raising awareness of the Group of Friends of Global Governance.
China, HCCH Sign Memorandum on Cooperation in Global Governance
AI take
The MOU is notable less for its binding content than for the venue: China is routing a governance initiative through a Hague-based treaty body rather than a bilateral channel, which gives the effort a private-international-law frame that is harder to dismiss as purely political. The Group of Friends angle suggests China is building a standing coalition inside multilateral legal institutions, not just issuing statements. Whether that translates into influence over actual convention drafting and uptake is the open question.
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