Xiconomics : What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- An overview of the book -- Part I Dual Circulation Strategy and Xiconomics -- 1 What is Dual Circulation Strategy? -- Understanding Dual Circulation on three different levels -- Level 1: Dual Circulation Strategy as a framework -- Level 2: putting the "Strategy" into Dual Circulation Strategy -- Level 3: from "grand strategy" to policy specifics and the transience of slogans -- 2 Dual Circulation: more continuity than change -- Make the foreign serve China: Dual Circulation in historical perspective -- Distinguishing between the internal and the external -- Managing the external to benefit the internal -- The need for self-reliance -- Self-reliance in practice: different meanings -- Reform and opening up in a globalizing world -- 3 Xiconomics and the China policy puzzle -- The China policy puzzle -- Jigsaw piece 1: the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping's leadership -- Jigsaw piece 2: the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese people after the Century of Humiliation -- Jigsaw piece 3: the new principal contradiction - "meeting the people's ever-growing needs for a better life" and Common Prosperity -- Jigsaw piece 4: moving from a "time of strategic opportunity" to "great changes, unseen in a century" -- Jigsaw piece 5: national security - the securitization of everything -- Jigsaw piece 6: the Belt and Road Initiative and beyond -- Putting the puzzle together -- 4 Putting the "Xi" into Xiconomics -- Xi's priorities for Dual Circulation Strategy -- Xi and Common Prosperity -- Putting speeches in context -- Part II Three questions for global business -- 5 How will China's internal business environment develop? -- Two considerations for the business environment -- The outlook for growth fundamentals.