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Why China's favorability is rising across the Global South_我的网站

一 |     据纵览新闻报道，浙江宁波某公司在年会前买了500多张彩票，在年会时发放给员工想让大家一起热闹热闹，烘托一下过年气氛。没想到的是，一位员工的彩票竟然幸运地中了一等奖，奖金高达608万元！然而，公司在得知此事后，要求员工退还这张彩票，并计划将奖金平分给所有参加年会的人。对于公司的要求，员工并不答应，为此，双方闹到了派出所。

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    A local train driver receivs a notebook from his Chinese predecessor at the Adama station in Adama City, Ethiopia, Sept. 9, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)The global perception landscape is changing. For decades, the United States occupied a dominant position in international public opinion. The latest Pew Research Center survey, however, points to a notable turning point: for the first time in more than two decades, China is viewed more favorably than the United States across a larger number of countries.
What explains China's growing appeal?
For many developing countries, China offers a practical development partnership centered on infrastructure, investment, industrialization, technology transfer and trade. Rather than prescribing a single pathway to modernization, it has generally emphasized allowing countries to pursue development in line with their national priorities.
One reason China's influence has grown is that its development model is highly visible. From Ethiopia's railways to Pakistan's power plants, Chinese-financed projects address everyday development challenges by improving transport, energy security and connectivity. Through the Belt and Road Initiative, China has mobilized nearly 1 trillion U.S. dollars in infrastructure investment, producing projects that citizens can see, use and associate with economic progress.
The distinction lies not only in the scale of investment but also in the evolving priorities of development cooperation. While many Western partners have increasingly emphasized economic security, strategic de-risking, private-sector mobilization and governance reform, China has combined large-scale investment in physical infrastructure with technology transfer, industrial cooperation and human capital development.
At the same time, China has actively promoted trade by expanding market access, including granting zero-tariff treatment to many least-developed countries, deepening currency-swap arrangements, and encouraging the use of local currencies in cross-border trade. Together, these measures seek to strengthen economic connectivity, reduce transaction costs and exchange-rate risks, and create new opportunities for developing countries to integrate into regional and global value chains.
    A container truck, transporting the first batch of imports under China's expanded zero-tariff treatment to 53 African nations, enters Shenzhenwan Port in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, May 1, 2026. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
This integrated approach has produced tangible improvements in productivity, connectivity and local capacity, reinforcing perceptions of China as a long-term development partner.
Equally important is the philosophy underpinning China's engagement. Beijing consistently emphasizes sovereignty, mutual respect and non-interference, maintaining that every country should determine its own political and development path. For many governments across the Global South, this approach is a partnership based on equality rather than political conditionality, allowing them greater policy space to pursue domestic development priorities.
Diplomatic style has also influenced perceptions. Through mechanisms such as the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and regular engagement with Pacific Island countries, China has committed itself to equality and shared development. For many governments in the Global South, that sense of respect and recognition is not merely symbolic -- it contributes to long-term political trust.
Perhaps the most important nuance is this: the Global South is not becoming anti-American; it is becoming strategically pragmatic. Its foreign policy decisions are increasingly guided by national interests, economic opportunity, and development priorities rather than Cold War-style geopolitical alignment.
The Global South's primary ambition is neither ideological nor geopolitical -- it is developmental. Governments want to create jobs, eliminate poverty, modernize infrastructure, strengthen industrial capacity and improve the quality of life for their citizens. China's transformation over the past four decades, from lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty to becoming a global leader in infrastructure, manufacturing and technology, has demonstrated what sustained long-term planning can achieve. Consequently, many developing countries are looking to China not as a model to replicate wholesale, but as a development partner from which they can learn, cooperate and pursue shared prosperity while preserving their own policy autonomy.
This contrast is also reflected in broader policy priorities. At a time when many Western governments are increasingly emphasizing tariffs, export controls, technology restrictions, sanctions and economic security, China has continued to promote infrastructure investment, trade, industrial cooperation, technology partnerships, open-source AI initiatives and greater access to its domestic market. Whether one agrees with either approach or not, many developing countries evaluate partnerships primarily through the lens of economic development and tangible outcomes. That difference in emphasis is helping reshape global perceptions.
    A staff member arranges exhibits at the booth of Nigeria during the 9th China-Eurasia Expo in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 25, 2026. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)
The world is changing, and the transition toward a more multipolar international order is becoming increasingly evident. The Global South is no longer a passive participant in world affairs. Its countries are exercising greater strategic autonomy, making decisions according to their own national interests, development priorities and the aspirations of their people. In China, developing countries have found a true friend and good partner.
Editor's note: Maya Majueran serves as the director of the Belt and Road Initiative Sri Lanka, an independent and pioneering organization with strong expertise in Belt and Road Initiative advice and support.
。对于此事，属地派出所表示，确实处理过这起纠纷，因为是一起民事纠纷，已建议当事人通过法律途径解决。更戏剧性的是，该公司知情人士透露:其实彩票发员工手上时中奖号码已经公布了。

三 | 发彩票前，公司老板交代财务人员先核对彩票是否中奖，确认没中奖后再下发。估计财务人员未核对清楚，就发放了彩票。潇湘晨报记者未采访到该事件相关的企业及当事人，记者通过搜索发现，2023年，也有类似的信息出现在网络上。

四 | 国家“双千计划”法学专家、芙蓉律师事务所主任陈平凡表示：公司得知员工中奖后要求退还的做法，既不合理也不合法。彩票一旦售出并交付，其所有权即转移给购买者或受赠人。

五 | 在此案例中，公司将彩票作为年会礼品赠送给员工，员工接受后，即形成了完整的赠与法律关系，彩票的所有权随之转移给员工。因此，公司要求员工退还彩票缺乏法律依据。对于上述纠纷，陈平凡也给出了他的法律建议：员工方：应坚持自己的合法权益，拒绝公司的无理要求。同时，准备好相关证据，如彩票领取记录、中奖通知等，以证明自己的合法所有权。若公司采取进一步行动，如克扣工资或威胁解雇等，员工有权向劳动监察部门投诉，并寻求法律援助。公司方：应认识到自己的错误，尊重员工的合法权益，避免采取进一步的违法行动。

六 | 建议公司加强与员工的沟通，通过协商或调解等方式解决纠纷，以维护和谐的劳动关系。同时，公司应吸取教训，在未来的福利发放中明确权属约定，避免类似纠纷的再次发生。

七 | 总之，在处理此类纠纷时，应尊重法律原则，保护员工的合法权益，维护和谐的劳动关系。潇湘晨报记者曾永红 曹伟报料、维权通道：应用市场下载“晨视频”客户端，搜索“报料”一键直达；或微信添加报料客服：xxcbcsp；或拨打热线0731-85571188。如需内容合作，请拨打政企服务专席19176699651。

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