China's 2025 Vision in Practice, Volume I
Description
This first part of a two-volume work offers a comprehensive exploration of China's ambitious "Made in China 2025" initiative and its broader geopolitical implications. By examining China's strategic shift from a low-cost manufacturing hub to a high-tech powerhouse, chapters provide a critical assessment of the initiative's progress and its impact on global economic dynamics.
In this volume, chapters explore the idea that MIC 2025 operates not merely as an acadeonomic development programme, but as a mechanism for strategic decoupling - a deliberate restructuring of global production networks aimed at insulating China from external vulnerabilities.
Through expert contributions, readers will gain insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by China's industrial strategies, including the semiconductor "chips war" and the new global bipolarity centered around technology and innovation. An essential read for scholars and practitioners in international political economy, Chinese studies, and global economic governance, it offers a nuanced understanding of China's evolving role on the global stage, making it a valuable resource for graduate-level courses and research institutions focused on contemporary China. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book provides a holistic view of China's rise and its implications for the future of global economic and strategic competition.
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Young-Chan Kim is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Senior Lecturer in the Executive Business Centre at the University of Greenwich, UK. His main area of research before joining the University of Greenwich was International Business and Foreign Direct Investment among Asian multinational enterprises, specialising in Japanese and Korean corporations. Since 2010, he has focused intensively on China and global geostrategy. He has published extensively in the field of Chinese strategic relations and regularly engages with projects that are aimed at giving up-and-coming academics a platform to voice their contemporary research on Sino-Globalism and its ongoing impact on international relations and global institutions. He is the Editor of The Chinese Global Dream, Volumes I and II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
Content
Introduction.- Theme I - Industrial Transformation.- Chapter 1: Labour, lack of brides, and loopholes for young women.- Chapter 2: From Petro-States to Clean-Tech Hubs: Industrial Transformation and Sino-GCC Energy Partnership.- Chapter 3: Perspectives on China's economic boom and Africa's dependence from the 1960s to the present day: an analysis based on the Rostowian model.- Chapter 4: China's Industrial Policy and Regional Geopolitics: Balancing Traditional Economics and Diversification in the Greater Middle East.- Theme II - Global Technological Competition.- Chapter 5: Russian-Chinese Investment Projects as a Tool for Re-Globalization.-Chapter 6: Mexico's Position in China's Global Industrial Strategy.- Chapter 7: Tit-for-Tat Dynamics: Reshaping the Global Supply Chain Map from Tariffs to Tactics.- Chapter 8: International Industrial Security: The Role and Significance of China.- Chapter 9: The Greening of the Dragon: China's Technological Turn Toward Sustainable Development and Global Industrial Power.