ABSTRACT
The chapter goes beyond the four macrosecuritization discourses postulated in the literature to look at discourses that concern global referents in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These have the potential to become macrosecuritization moves promoted by the PRC and represent a new type of engagement of global security governance in the PRC. Xi Jinping has taken a new approach: previous post-Mao leaders took a low profile for the PRC internationally, whereas Xi has been interested in national and global security issues and politics. Indeed, the contemporary security discourse of Xi’s administration has become quite global. Accordingly, the chapter looks at the political dictum of the community of a shared future for humankind, the infrastructure and investment programme of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and the Global Security Initiative (GSI). Such policy labels show how the numerous concerns of non-traditional security are collated into the governance of a global future with the PRC as a torchbearer.
