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In any event, while Washington works itself into a lather over Chinese pave-overs of reefs in the South China Sea, Beijing is focused on much bigger things. Every province and megalopolis in China is developing specific plans to support "one belt, one road" projects. Having won the 2016 election in Midwestern states whose economies have been particularly affected by the economic integration of the two countries, the president imposed tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018, on some $250bn of imports. It says much about the structural (rather than political) character of this shift that, as Emily writes, it is unlikely a Biden win on 3 November would greatly alter the course of US-China relations. If Biden wins, the Democrats too are more wary of China’s rise. China's expectation is that as its ties to Europe, Russia, and the Middle East mature, Eurasia will become ever more Sino-centric too. Strategic Risks for East Asia in Economic Integration with China. It will, in short, make China the most important single national actor on the entire Eurasian landmass. This year also saw China ditch more of its US debt holdings (Japan had already overtaken it last year as the largest foreign holder of Treasuries). As the Chinese economy evolves, we are beginning to see massive growth in China's cross-border capital flows. And on Investment Monitor, there are features exploring whether Covid-19 has delivered a death blow to US-China FDI, and how drops in Chinese investment have a bigger impact on Trump-voting states. It will let Chinese manufacturing and construction companies continue for a while to do the sort of work abroad that is winding down at home.. (Shortly after the book’s publication, American planes bombed Belgrade, home to seven branches of McDonald's at the time; residents even used one of them as a bomb shelter.). It is not taken seriously by many within the Beltway. Chinese consumption overtook investment as the main driver of growth in 2011. The optimistic view in the 1990s, as Shenzhen and other Chinese manufacturing centres took off and export volumes across the Pacific expanded, was that the economics dictated the geopolitics; that by knitting together the two economies the US and China would have too many shared interests to come into conflict. China’s economy deepened its integration with the rest of the world in October, with foreign investment increasing amid strong spending in R&D … Originally, I was going to talk about China's role in commodity market volatility. They are additive and do not supplant them. Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret. China is already the world's largest digital marketplace. China also used its surplus of US dollars to buy American debt and keep down the value of its own currency, the renminbi, becoming the biggest foreign holder of Treasury bonds. Chinese state-owned enterprises have more money for infrastructure build-out than they can profitably deploy in China, where returns on such projects are very low at present. It aims at massive development of economic corridors traversing the entire Eurasian landmass and all its major peninsular extensions. Nor, as I vividly recall, was Deng Xiaoping's 1978 announcement of his vision of "reform and opening." But China's leaders are betting that the "one belt, one road" project can bring about a second major advance in their country's long march toward wealth and power. Both countries were weighing up the intertwining of economics and geopolitics in a new symbiotic reality christened by the historian Niall Ferguson in 2006 as “Chimerica”; whereby American consumers fuelled a Chinese export boom, which Beijing recycled into US government debt that kept interest rates low and American consumer spending high. But the Japanese initiative seems likely simply to support rather than undermine the Chinese objective of strengthening pan-Eurasian economic ties. But it is only fair to note that the events of 2020, this opening year of a new decade, point heavily towards the decoupling narrative. It is promoting the Chinese yuan as a medium of trade settlement and public borrowing throughout Eurasia. According to the OECD, China is on its way to a 69 percent urban population by 2030. One trunk route is to go through Southeast Asia to Singapore. Investing in roads, railways, fiber optic cable, and power generation and distribution assets outside China could enable the productive use of China's industrial overcapacity, stabilizing employment and the Chinese economy. Digital packets transmitted from Western Europe to Shanghai or Tokyo must either cross Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, or transit the Atlantic, the United States, and then the Pacific Ocean. In January, China agreed an FTA with south Korea. Investment Monitor has dug into the numbers to explain how and where the decoupling is taking place. Remarks to the Summer Roundtable of the Pacific Pension Institute. It will be shaped in large measure by what happens under China's Silk Road initiatives and in the institutions China is organizing to support them. China joining CPTPP would boost Asia-Pacific economic integration. $40 billion has gone into the Central Asia-focused Silk Road Fund. The "one belt, one road" initiative is partly a short-term measure to alleviate the current overcapacity in China's cement, steel and aluminum industries by conjuring up export markets for them. China Development Bank says it will finance up to $1 trillion in "one belt, one road" projects. As one example of what China has in mind, consider the economic corridor that is to link Kashgar, in Xinjiang, with the port of Gwadar, in Pakistani Balochistan, 1,800 kms. They can continue for a while to do abroad what they will have decreasing opportunities to do at home. Part of this is down to Trump, who has called for tariffs since the 1980s. The rest will be devoted to building roads, railroads, power transmission lines, fiber optic cables, and oil and gas pipelines. The availability of credit does not guarantee the availability of financially attractive projects, however desirable they may be in terms of their overall impact on China's economy and its relations with the other societies in Europe and Asia. As the great conservative, Edmund Burke, declared: "the heart of diplomacy is to grant graciously what you no longer have the power to withhold." Perhaps the key to accomplishing this is partnership with foreign companies and lenders with greater experience in risk-based lending and turning a profit outside home markets. China has its act mostly together. If it works, it will place China in an ever more central position of influence on the Eurasian landmass and the world. What comes next really depends on whether the geopolitics have firmly succeeded the economics, on whether the Thucydides trap has replaced the Golden Arches theory (China currently has 2,391 branches of McDonald's, more than any other country except the US and Japan) of foreign relations. China Eyes Further Northeast Asian Economic Integration in RCEP When the Obama administration focused its efforts on a pivot to Asia, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) served as a key economic pillar of the strategy. From left to right: Mr Lye Liang Fook, Mr Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, Dr Francis Hutchinson, Dr Hoe Ee Khor, and Dr Chaipat Poonpatpibul. In many ways, the U.S. and Japanese responses to China's increasing role in global economic affairs remind me of the dysfunctional reactions of an entrepreneur as the private equity boys reorganize the company he founded, change its management, do transformative mergers and acquisitions, and deprive him of all pretense of control over his company as they take it public. Decoupling is the new reality. It is an entirely non-coercive, market-directed  means by which to aggregate all of Europe and Asia's wealth and power to China's own as China becomes the world's largest economy. … The great US-China economic synthesis is over. They were the decade in which, in the process, geopolitics started to dictate economics, and the integration, by some measures, peaked and started to decline. This justifies a certain measure of skepticism about the numbers China has attached to its aspirations. /*-->*/. Meanwhile, China continues to leverage its membership in the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, and other U.S., Japanese, and European-dominated institutions to the cause of improving Eurasian infrastructure. Also, the institutional integration of East Asia needs the effort of all the players in the region. What return on investment can China and its partners reasonably expect from "one belt, one road" projects? To this end, China is creating new international institutions that both supplement and compete with existing U.S.-sponsored funds and banks. Companies must decide how best to leverage the growing power and economic integration of these two economies. The challenges posed by a more prosperous and internationally engaged China have no military solution. Obama had encouraged the reshoring of manufacturing from China to the US and took aim at unfair Chinese subsidies for industries that threatened American jobs. Chinese growth is weaning itself from dependence on domestic fixed asset investment and transitioning to reliance instead on the expansion of the services and domestic consumption. But slighting China's latest effort to boost its wealth and power or its potential strategic implications strikes me as very likely a big mistake. One study estimates, for example, that a relatively modest five percent growth rate in such assets from their current base could create 137 million tons of demand for Chinese steel. In support of this, China seeks to inspire mergers, acquisitions, and green-field investments to create what might be called "multinational companies with Chinese characteristics," some with headquarters in Europe or elsewhere outside China. Pakistan estimates that this influx of Chinese investment will stimulate a 15 percent increase in its GDP by 2030. China is in the process of becoming the world's preeminent economy. $34 billion of this will go into new power plants, with the goal of almost immediately (that is three years from now) generating an additional 10,400 MW of electricity for power-hungry Pakistan. Internationally, most attention has focused on Beijing's ambition to build 81,000 kilometers (about 50,000 miles) of high-speed railways connecting itself to everywhere else in Asia and Europe. As the "one belt, one road" concept is implemented, the EU and China should draw ever closer commercially. All of these concepts – peaceful rise, responsible stakeholder, Chimerica, the balance of financial terror – speaks to a “what if?” 2000s in which the optimistic old assumptions of the 1990s, like the Golden Arches theory, were being questioned on both sides of the Pacific, and the risks of alternative realities were being tacitly acknowledged. I began preparing to do that but, with your indulgence and in line with the theme of this roundtable, I want instead to address the most massive project for infrastructure and logistics management investment the world has yet seen. But, for the program to succeed over the long term, the planning process that is getting under way will have to begin to develop new models for Chinese investment that empower private enterprise along the Silk Road as well as in China itself. The primary goals of AIIB are to address the expanding infrastructure needs across Asia, enhance regional integration, promote economic development and improve public access to social services. China is in the process of becoming the world's preeminent economy. It has learned a lot about how to build things that boost transportation and communications efficiency. China’s Reform and Economic Integration with ASEAN The discussion panel at the seminar “40 Years of China’s Reform and Implications for ASEAN”. Not all of the money China is making available will find projects. This crisis is about China’s economic future and whether or not it can manage the structural transformation necessary to propel the economy into the … A post-Bretton Woods global financial order is being born. Over the past year, the U.S. has imposed tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports and China has retaliated, raising tariffs on U.S. exports. This optimism continued well into the 2000s, as trade soared following China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation and attitudes on both sides acknowledged that with the country’s rising prosperity came both greater leverage over the US and geopolitical power in the world. Nations and financial institutions that collaborate in these initiatives will be in a position to shape them and the reformed international financial system they constitute. Parts of the US-China economic integration that began in Shenzhen's port in 1980 are going into reverse. In addition to its impressive physical dimensions, the "one belt, one road" project seeks to build institutional linkages and to break down barriers to cooperation between China and the various economic communities that populate the "world island." individual US states' tortured relationship with China, factor in the presidential election campaign, Why a Joe Biden win is unlikely to improve relations between the US and China, whether Covid-19 has delivered a death blow to US-China FDI, Devi Sridhar: The UK needs a zero-Covid strategy to prevent endless lockdowns, Ban Donald Trump’s Twitter account – for good, "The social movements of our time are explosive": Aaron Benanav on robots and revolution. The scale of what China is attempting is unprecedented, but the grand vision, long planning horizon, optimism, and tie to anniversaries are typical of contemporary Chinese political culture. Â. So now, as the US approaches an important presidential election on 3 November and questions about its wider future abound, the New Statesman Media Group is joining forces to tell that story. The United States is in denial about the nature and direction of change in the global political economy. An opening contribution of $10 billion – some of which will go to Silk Road projects – has gone into the BRICS-led New Development Bank. The target for concluding RCEP is the end of this year. With Beijing "relying less on exports to the US market, caring less about its currency’s peg to the dollar”, he theorised, "the end of Chimerica would have arrived, and with it the balance of global power would be bound to shift… China would be free to explore other spheres of global influence.”, [see also: Why a Joe Biden win is unlikely to improve relations between the US and China]. Hence the importance of the international consultations and strategic planning efforts that are about to get underway. The program envisages the revitalisation of old trading routes with a continental Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st century Maritime Silk Road. Do also look out for the next episode of our World Review podcast, on which Emily and I will be joined by Courtney Fingar of Investment Monitor and Sommer Mathis of City Monitor (another new NSMG site, focused on urbanism) to discuss US-China decoupling and other mega-stories that define the backdrop to the US election. Some countries, such as China, hope to promote 10+3 (the ASEAN economies plus China, Japan and the Republic of Korea) cooperation, while other countries, such as Japan, prefer 10+6 cooperation (the ASEAN economies plus China, Japan, ROK, India, Australia and New Zealand), and it was difficult for each other to reach consensus. While it remains relatively low as a percentage of China's GDP, continuing rapid urbanization and the concomitant growth of China's middle class promise to correct this. Jeremy Cliffe is International Editor of the New Statesman. A majority of Chinese private sector and state-owned enterprises in the construction, mining, and telecommunications sectors have already built utilization of "one belt, one road" credits into their business plans. Despite many internal problems, it is currently outplaying all rivals, including the United States and Japan. To continue to lead, one must engage and contribute, not deny the reality of change or boycott, bluster, and block needed reforms. Larry Summers called this interdependence a “balance of financial terror”, where China relied on US spending and the US relied on Chinese financing. A Biden White House might pursue a more multilateral counterweight to Beijing, especially by paying more sincere attention to the emergent Indo-Pacific alliance, but it would not drastically shift the American foreign policy course. The financial war that Lou warned of may now be under way. That’s likely to continue. #imports_exports_indexed iframe { width: 100%} Economic Integration In China 2753 Words 12 Pages Chapter 1 Introduction and Background “All countries, including the poorest have assets – human, industrial, natural financial - which they can employ to produce goods and services for their domestic markets or to compete overseas. The China Economic Review publishes original research works on the economy of China, and its relation to the world economy. Various elements of CITIC have just announced commitments to fund 300 projects from Singapore to Turkmenistan totaling $113 billion. The 2010s were the decade in which the “what if?” became a “what now?” They began with China overtaking Japan to become the world's second largest economy and ended with it being within striking distance of overtaking America to become the largest (a feat already achieved in measures of purchasing power). Investment Monitor has dug into the numbers to explain the declining trade and investment flows between the US and China, and individual US states' tortured relationship with China. The same, for other reasons, is true of China and Russia, and of China and Iran. Tech Monitor, a new sister publication of Investment Monitor focusing on the tech industry, has reviewed the growing impact this shift is having on technology supply chains. China is connected to Europe at present by 39,000 kms (about 24,000 miles) of mostly underwater cable following legacy telephone links. Americans like to apply military deterrence to threats and coercive solutions to problems. International correspondent Ido Vock has charted the ways in which the flow of people and culture between US and China’s societies may have levelled off or may even be in retreat. America recognises China is now a challenger power. So if the 1990s were the decade of the Golden Arches theory, the 2000s the theory of Chimerica and the 2010s the decade of the Thucydides trap, what will the 2020s bring? But some of the trends were already under way during the Obama administration, with the recognition that China posed a geopolitical challenge in the Indo-Pacific and was undermining US strength by sapping its manufacturing base. The decoupling has been particularly stark in the technological sphere, amid concerns about the Chinese appropriation of US intellectual property, and with the forced sale of the American operations of TikTok (a Chinese video app) and a blacklisting last year of the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (which was founded in Shenzhen and whose founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei was in the audience for Xi Jinping’s speech there last week). Chinese firms got the message: there has been a precipitous fall in Chinese investment in the US, and while US investment in China remains flat overall, it has fallen in crucial areas such as information and communications technology, machinery and financial and business services. China's economic planners want to make private enterprises the backbone of the scheme – to leverage their energy, flexibility, and sensitivity to investment efficiency. Elsewhere on the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin reports on its impact on the US election, and Ido Vock and Michael Goodier chart the social ties between the two countries. Implementation is expected to begin in earnest in 2021, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. Debates about the US-China economic relationship usually come down to one core question: what is the relationship between the geopolitics and the economics? It is a multifaceted and nuanced story. In early October it handed out some $1.5m – in Shenzhen, of course – to test a digitisation of the renminbi that Chinese officials hope will help lead to a counterbalance to the dollar. In this context, the military aspects of the "pivot" are irrelevant. The theory rested on the assumption that highly integrated countries with sizeable middle-class populations capable of sustaining branches of the US fast-food chain had too much to lose by entering into conflict. But, in the longer term, "one belt, one road" is a strategy to use Chinese resources to tie Europe and Asia more closely and efficiently to each other and to China.  The added efficiencies of its planned railroads, highways, pipelines, power grids, fiber optic cables, and air and sea ports respond to real market requirements and opportunities. Member countries remove all barriers to trade between themselves but are free to independently determine trade policies with nonmember nations. Our own decade’s Big Idea about US-China relations is yet to emerge but if I had to predict one I would invoke either “decoupling” pure and simple, or something related like “spheres of interest”. The U.S. concerns that underpi… By some estimates, a one millisecond advantage could be worth up to $100 million a year to a single hedge fund company. Economic integration, or regional integration, is an agreement among nations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers and agree on fiscal policies. For the past two decades, China has devoted about 9 percent of GDP to the enhancement of domestic infrastructure. A third trunk will go through Kazakhstan and Russia to Western Europe. The “new security concept” of the 1990s informed the more thrusting notion of “China’s peaceful rise” promoted by Beijing under Hu Jintao from 2003; a mix of friendliness and wariness echoed back from Washington in urgings that China be a “responsible stakeholder” in the global order, a term coined by then deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick. In the short term, on the macro level, even under conservative assumptions, investment in Asian and European infrastructure looks like a good bet. As of 2015, China announced that over one trillion yuan (US$160 billion) of infrastructure related projects were in planning or construction. The pulling apart of the world's two biggest economies, often dubbed a "decoupling", could prove at least as decisive for the following decades of world affairs as the integration was for the past four. The initiative is also a way of developing Xinjiang and other parts of western China by making them key connectors to Central Asia, Russia, Europe, and the Middle East. Regional economic integration has enabled countries to focus on issues that are relevant to their stage of development as well as encourage trade between neighbors. China’s Visions of Future East Asian Economic Integration East Asia has been the fastest growing area in the world in recent decades. The creation of the SEZ in 1980, when today's futuristic metropolis of 13 million inhabitants was a fishing village, was an early landmark in the opening up of the Chinese economy under Deng Xiaoping, and with it came probably the biggest economic story of our time: the integration of the Chinese and US economies. Its institutional linkages will facilitate the investment necessary to realize these efficiencies. It is often assumed this began in the US with the election of Donald Trump. China's financial commitments are for the most part credit availabilities, not specific project finance commitments. China’s Economic Policy Economic growth soared in the last few decades mainly due to the country’s increasing integration into the global economy and the government’s bold support for economic activity. $46 billion has been allocated to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. It produced half of global GDP and held seventy percent of the world's gold reserves. This NSMG feature does not pretend to have a certain answer that question. China will become the center of economic gravity of a vast, loosely integrated region that already has 55 percent of world GNP, 70 percent of global population, and 75 percent of known energy reserves. In the US, legislation responded by stripping privileges from Hong Kong and gave the administration the power to impose sanctions on Chinese officials. 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