This paper investigates whether China has escaped the vulnerabilities of peripheral and dependent late … industrialisation in the 1960s and examined through China’s balance of payments data. While it would seem that China’s huge surpluses … exist. These were more evident before China’s spectacular surplus surge in the 2000s, although even in the midst of the …

What do China's dramatic transformations over the last 30 years imply for development studies and practice? China has … annum, albeit at well-documented environmental and social costs. China now appears to be developing effective responses to … the global financial crisis, and fairly recently China's global role has seen an enormous surge. It is making these …

optimism is put in perspective with some sobering observations about how the rise of China and India as centers of global …