"This book looks at how Chinese companies optimize investment opportunities while implementing the Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative. Specifically, it studies five high-profile infrastructure projects undertaken by Chinese firms. Going in-depth through case-study analysis, this boo…
"This book looks at how Chinese companies optimize investment opportunities while implementing the Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative. Specifically, it studies five high-profile infrastructure projects undertaken by Chinese firms. Going in-depth through case-study analysis, this boo…
Over the last twenty years, China has thrice undergone political-economic crises and bureaucratic paralysis. Nevertheless, China's autocratic leadership launched initiatives that expedited globalization and revived economic growth. This book acts as an analytical tool to study C…
From 1998 to 2018, China had three political-economic crises, resulting in bureaucratic paralysis. It was at such junctures that China's leadership launched initiatives, like the Western Development Program, that mobilized state and market actors to expedite globalization and re…
"In 2012 to 2013, the Chinese state was in a state of peril. It just experienced a major political tornado in relation to the abrupt downfall of political titan Bo Xilai, who had built a formidable power base and political movement in western China. Newlyminted President Xi Jinp…
There's no question, compared to the advanced economies China's economic growth rates have been spectacular, but in most instances the economic analysts tend to forget that a large part of China's growth has been dictated by government industrial subsidies. How did China go from…
This book shows that government subsidies play a big part in China's economic success. Subsidies include those to basic industries: energy (coal, electricity, natural gas and heavy oil), steel, glass, paper, auto parts, solar and more. Their exports to the United States and Euro…
There's no question, compared to the advanced economies China's economic growth rates have been spectacular, but in most instances the economic analysts tend to forget that a large part of China's growth has been dictated by government industrial subsidies. How did China go from…
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is intended to radically increase investment and integration along a series of land and maritime routes. As the initiative involves more than 100 countries or international organizations and huge amounts of infrastructure construction, coop…