x     China’s President Xi Jinping met Uruguay’s President Yamandú Orsi in Beijing on Tuesday, a visit framed by both sides as a bid to deepen political alignment and broaden economic ties at a moment of heightened geopolitical competition. Xi urged the two countries to work toward an “equal and orderly multipolar world” and an “inclusive” form of economic globalisation—language Beijing has increasingly used to criticise unilateral pressure and to rally Global South partners. The meeting