Over the last decade, there has been a turning point in China’s participation in international affairs. The Olympic Games of 2008 showed China as a world centre-stage country. The Hangzhou G20 summit in 2016 embodied this new China, more assertive and involved in the international community. China has adopted a dual approach. On the one hand it has not broken with traditional Western institutions. In fact, China actively and proactively participates in them, such as the WTO, the United Nations and the Paris Agreement, becoming the main advocate of globalisation and sustainable development. On the other hand, China is – with its developing country credentials – proposing an alternative and complementary world order, with new institutions and strategies, under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which characterize a type of globalization led from the south – a globalisation with Chinese characteristics.