Changing World Dialogue

These pluralized relations included not only Europe but other significant countries from the Global South and elsewhere. Through more than thirty internal off-the-record virtual sessions over the first three years, which included virtual panels in the Global Solutions Summits, the Changing World Dialogue (CWD, formerly China-West Dialogue) developed a pluralized dynamic of its own based on the diversity of its participants, which now numbers 160 people from more than fifteen countries.

The initial series of thirty interactions led up to a new phase of “going-public” that began with twenty-one CWD principals participating in the GSS2023 in May of 2023 in Berlin. This constituted the first-ever in-person meetings of CWD participants. This new phase continued with an all-day in-person brainstorming workshop in Boston in July among seven CWD regulars to scope out work for the fall of 2023, which entailed public conferences in Shanghai and Beijing and in-person meetings in Washington, DC.

In 2024, CWD has moved into a third phase of multiple workstreams led by a variety of people so that CWD can become simultaneously more inclusive and generate greater impact. These workstreams are: Middle Power Diplomacy, International Debt Architecture, and International Principles and Norms for Human Security.

In 2025, CWD changed its name to Changing World Dialogue to reflect its broadened focus and developments in the international landscape. It continues its previous workstreams, including the focus on Middle Power Diplomacy as a way forward for multilateralism in the current tense geopolitical environment along with a deepening concern regarding the impact of unilateral disruption and global shocks on global economic governance.