中国男篮12日晚在雅加达迎来亚洲杯首场比赛。在与老对手韩国队的较量中，中国男篮以81∶93不敌韩国男篮，未能赢得开门红。当日进行的同组另一场比赛中，中国台北队102∶84大胜巴林队。
本场比赛，在周琦和王哲林无法出场的情况下，中国男篮主帅杜锋在开场祭出小个阵容，球队凭借突破和远投冲击对手。
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.
。整场比赛，顾全和赵睿双双拿下22分，韩国男篮阵中的归化球员罗健儿得到25分。
尽管亚洲杯已与世界杯和奥运会资格脱钩，但中国男篮还是非常重视这项赛事。
二 | 不过，中国男篮的备战工作受到新冠肺炎疫情的影响，球队在澳大利亚墨尔本征战世预赛期间，多名球员核酸检测呈阳性。为保证亚洲杯的比赛能正常进行，中国男篮紧急从国内征调翟晓川、范子铭、贺希宁、姜伟泽和高诗岩这5人飞往雅加达。在中国男篮10日公布的亚洲杯12人参赛名单中，赵睿、徐杰、胡明轩、孙铭徽、姜伟泽、周琦、王哲林、范子铭、翟晓川、顾全、贺希宁和付豪在列。这份名单中，郭艾伦、赵继伟、沈梓捷和朱俊龙这4名参加了世预赛的球员并不在内，征调球员中的高诗岩也没有入选。郭艾伦12日晚通过个人社交平台表示，很遗憾没能参加亚洲杯，“现在还是一直咳嗽、胸腔疼，还没有转阴”。中国队与韩国队是B组的两支种子球队，两队共拿下包括18枚金牌（中国队16枚）在内的44枚亚洲杯奖牌。国际篮联官网称，中韩男篮的相遇是一场重量级对话。韩国男篮是本届赛事第一批公布12人名单的球队，其中，2019年世界杯韩国队头号得分手和篮板王、归化球员罗健儿第一次踏上亚洲杯赛场。与韩国队交锋后，中国男篮将在14日迎战巴林队，16日迎战小组最后一个对手中国台北队。小组第一将直接晋级八强，小组第二和第三参加八强附加赛。
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