China’s New Place in a World in Crisis: Economic Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions

The

world and China’s place in it have been transformed over the past year. The

pressures for change have come from the most severe global financial crisis

ever. The crisis has accelerated China’s emergence as a great power. But

China and its global partners have yet to think or work through the

consequences of its new position for the governance of world affairs. China’s New Place in a World in Crisis

discusses and provides in-depth analysis of the following questions. How have

China’s growth prospects been affected by the global crisis? How will the

crisis and China’s response to it impact China’s major domestic issues, such

as industrialisation, urbanisation and the reform of the state-owned sector

of the economy? How will the crisis and the international community’s

response to it affect the rapidly emerging new international order? What will

be China’s, and other major developing countries’, new role? Can China and

the world find a way of breaking the nexus between economic growth and

environmental sustainability - especially on the issue of climate change?