China's geoeconomic strategy: what power shift to China?

That economic and fi nancial power is shifting from West to East – and specifically to China – has become a mantra of our age, repeated so often and so insistently that it appears to be widely regarded as self-evident. Frequently, it is accompanied by the assertion China is set irreversibly on the path to global pre-eminence, if not outright domination. It is only a matter of time, it is sometimes suggested, before China rules the world

The world turned upside down: the decline of the rules-based international system and the rise of authoritarian nationalism

The liberal order constructed after World War II and successfully extended following the end of the Cold War today faces the greatest challenge. With the USA now led by a President who rejects “globalism”, a Europe in disarray and a China either unwilling or unable to formulate a coherent universal vision of world order, there is every chance that the international system will continue to exhibit enormous instability in an age of growing uncertainty

China's geoeconomic strategy

As the world continues to experience the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis, it is increasingly turning towards China. The outsourced ‘workshop of the world’ has become the world’s great hope for growth, and the source of the capital the West’s indebted economies so desperately need. Simultaneously, and in the United States in particular, commentators and policymakers have increasingly voiced concerns that the economic clout of a communist superpower might pose a threat to the liberal world order. These contradictory impulses – China as opportunity and China as threat – demonstrate one clear truth, exhibited in the Obama administration’s much-trailed ‘Asian pivot’: that China is important. It is in this context that this report attempts to provide a systematic assessment of the economic bases of China’s foreign policy and the challenges the country faces as it makes the transition from rising power to superpower. In doing so, it is informed by a central question, of to what extent China’s remarkable growth has given rise to a geoeconomic strategy for China’s future. However, there remain deep and pervasive fault-lines within Indian society. Crony capitalism, the collapse of public health systems, a rising Maoist insurgency, and rampant environmental degradation all call into doubt India's superpower aspirations. Rather than seek to expand its influence abroad, India would do well to focus on the fissures within

Expanding WTO Rules? Should there be WTO rules on competition, investment, trade facilitation and transparency in government procurement? A Federal Trust Report on the Singapore Issues

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