Baku: China's Global Times has published an article titled 'Hope Amid Disorder,' highlighting the outcomes of the 13th Global Baku Forum. Authored by Mabel Lu Miao, Co-founder and Secretary-General of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), the article stated: 'The 13th Global Baku Forum, held from March 11 to 14 under the theme 'Bridging Divides in a Transforming World,' was taking place at an unusually dangerous moment. The escalating conflict involving the US, Israel, and Iran had pushed regional tensions to a new level. Baku, in the South Caucasus, lies close to several geopolitical fault lines. The Russia-Ukraine conflict still casts its shadow across the wider region, while tensions surrounding Iran and the Middle East were intensifying. As the forum was approaching, the question was no longer simply whether it would matter, but whether people would even go.'

According to Azerbaijan State News Agency, held under the patronage of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the forum drew an extraordinary concentration of political weight. The event brought together nearly 200 current and former political leaders, senior officials, diplomats, scholars, and policy figures.

'Among all the discussions at the forum, one of the most revealing for me was the special session on 'China and the Global Governance Initiative.' For the first time, China's Global Governance Initiative was directly elevated as a core thematic session of the main forum,' the author said.

'What I felt in that room was different from the tone that often surrounded China-related discussions in earlier years. In the past, many international conversations about China carried an undertone of suspicion or defensiveness. In Baku, the tone was more open, more substantive and, in many cases, more respectful than I had expected,' she added.

The author noted that the Global Baku Forum has successfully fulfilled its role as an effective platform bringing global powers together.