President William Ruto heads to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) later this month determined to spearhead calls for reforms at the world body, buoyed by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s fresh appeal for a ‘more just and equitable’ global governance system, a stance that has unsettled Washington.

China’s chargé d’affaires in Nairobi, Zhang Zhizhong, rallied Nairobi to back Xi’s new Global Governance Initiative (GGI), launched at a recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China.