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This book analyses China s emergence on the global stage and helps readers to understand its superpower aspiration by assessing it from different hidden aspects, debunking myths, and questioning conventional wisdom, which often are just conventional views without much wisdom, through rigorous research thoughts backed by data and evidence. This book will interest China watchers, scholars and economists.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding China is better than underestimating China.- Chapter 2: Why has the world got China so wrong.- Chapter 3: China rises when the West sleeps.- Chapter 4: Decoupling versus regionalism and collabetition .- Chapter 5: Capital account liberalisation, opening a can of worms.- Chapter 6: Emigration of Chinese capital, friend or foe.- Chapter 7: The reality of the BRI disruption.- Chapter 8: Trade war turning the world upside down.- Chapter 9: Tech war of the great powers.- Chapter 10: Digital currency competition and disruption.- Chapter 11: Creeping renminbi internationalisation challenges King dollar.- Chapter 12: Is China un-investible (collapsing)?.- Chapter 13: A reluctant economic superpower.
About the author
Chi Lo is a university lecturer, Senior Economist at a multinational bank based in Hong Kong, and author of more than a dozen books on Chinese and Asian economic development and markets. He has spoken at international forums, including the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, Asian Development Bank, the British House of Lords, and the European Commission.
Summary
This book analyses China’s emergence on the global stage and helps readers to understand its superpower aspiration by assessing it from different hidden aspects, debunking myths, and questioning conventional wisdom, which often are just conventional views without much wisdom, through rigorous research thoughts backed by data and evidence. This book will interest China watchers, scholars and economists.
