Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- President Xi Jinping's 'The Governance of China, Volume V' is not just a political text. It is a strategic reflection on where China stands and where it wants the world to go.

The book reads less like a domestic policy manual and more like a map for global cooperation in an age where the old order looks increasingly exhausted.

Xi's central argument is that China's rise is neither accidental nor meant to unsettle others.

It is the outcome of a long and deliberate project - one that blends Marxism with China's own civilisational depth, adapting both to the realities of the twenty-first century.

This "two integration" - merging the basic tenets of Marxism with Chinese traditions - is at the heart of what he calls Chinese...