From wealth to power. China’s new economic statecraft and its strategic implications

With guest speaker Zhang Xiaotong, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Wuhan University Centre for Economic Diplomacy (WHUCED), Wuhan University-University of the West Indies Centre for Caribbean Studies, Associate Professor of School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University

 

China’s economic diplomats are working to translate national wealth accumulated over the past forty years into great power status and reshaping the international order.

This new economic statecraft faces considerable challenges with regional and global implications, in particular on the future shape of international order.

The US, the EU and China are all under pressure to decide how to manage productively China’s ambition to adjust international institutions and rules to reflect China’s rise.