Is China Buying the World?
ISBN: 9780745660783 | 0745660789
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 4/10/2012
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A new book, written by a leading international expert on China and the global economy, which examines the widely-held belief that China is buying the world.
China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. 'China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to 'buy the world'. Is t... MORE
China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. 'China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to 'buy the world'. Is t... MORE
| List of Tables | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Who are We? Who are They? | p. 11 |
| Who are We? | p. 15 |
| Globalization and industrial concentration | p. 15 |
| Evidence from automobiles and beverages | p. 25 |
| Globalization and 'going out' by global firms | p. 38 |
| Who are They? | p. 55 |
| China catches up | p. 55... MORE |
| China is still far from 'catching up' | p. 66 |
| China's deepening relationship with developing countries | p. 70 |
| Oil companies and energy security | p. 75 |
| Multinational companies 'going in' to China | p. 84 |
| Chinese firms 'going out' of China into the high-income economies: 'I have you within me but you do not have me within you' | p. 95 |
| Constraints on China 'buying the world' | p. 102 |
| The Complexity of 'Us' and 'Them': The Case of Strategic Industries | p. 110 |
| Banks | p. 110 |
| Commercial aircraft | p. 119 |
| Conclusion | p. 132 |
| Is China buying the world? | p. 132 |
| Who are we? | p. 133 |
| Who are they? | p. 136 |
| The complexity of catching up | p. 142 |
| References | p. 144 |
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Peter Nolan is Professor of Chinese Management at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme at the Judge Business School. He has been centrally involved in discussions about the integration of China with the global economy and business system. He has testified before the US Congress' US-China Economic and Security Review Commission and served as an Advisor to the World Bank.
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