China – Cooperation and rivalry in today's interdependent world: Will pandemic change the trends?

Wojciech Hübner ()
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Wojciech Hübner: Faculty of Business and International Relations, Asia Research Institute, Vistula University, 3 Stokłosy Street, Warsaw, 02-787, Poland

Acta Oeconomica, 2020, vol. 70, issue s, 47-69

Abstract: The paper examines the importance of the ‘Chinese factor’ in today’s world from the perspective of current phenomena such as particular political and economic uncertainty and also examines them against the background of processes of global cooperation and parallel unprecedented competition at the same level. Complex phenomena occurring in this area have recently been additionally disrupted by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Will the world be different? Globalization processes have taken place over the centuries but have gained particular importance in our present times, because we left ‘the golden age’ of globalization (1990–2010) already behind us. China, ever louder, talks about the need for a ‘new’ globalization, in line with its new aspirations as a pretender to the leadership position in the global economy. The Belt and Road Initiative, launched in 2013, has been in the centre of its vision. It has become the foundation for China’s foreign policy in the horizon of at least the middle of XXI century. It was designed to re-confirm China’s unprecedented economic success of the past four decades, which to a great extent could be derived from a skilful use of the ‘traditional’ mechanisms of globalization.

Keywords: China; globalization; uncertainty; cooperation and rivalry; the Belt and Road Initiative; pandemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O53 P47 P59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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