EMERGING TRADING NATION IN AN INTEGRATING WORLD Global Impacts and Domestic Challenges of China's Economic Reform

The phenomenal rise of China as an economic power, as well as her heightened political and military clout that has been growing in tandem with this, inevitably brought forth, both regionally and globally, increasing concern over whether she is posing a threat to regional stability and prosperity, an...

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Other Authors: Yeoh, Kok Kheng (Editor), Devadason, Evelyn (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Kuala Lumpur University of Malaya, Institute of China Studies 2007
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505 0 |a Domestic reform and global impact, political economy of China's changing trade policy / Émile Kok-Kheng Yeoh -- Sino-Latin American relations in the twenty-first century / Uziel Nogueira -- China's trade patterns / Kwok-Tong Soo -- Recent trade and investment relations between Scandinavia and China / Kamaruding Abdulsomad -- China and Malaysia in East Asian economic integration / Rujhan Mustafa -- Trade between Malaysia and China / Kian-Teng Kwek and Siew-Yean Tham -- Malaysia-China trade patterns in manufactures / Evelyn Devadason -- Malaysia's and China's comparative advantages in selected manufacturing goods / Wai-Heng Loke -- Domestic general development of the People's Republic of China / Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada and Émile Kok-Kheng Yeoh -- Challenges of religious fundamentalism to China / Mutahir Ahmed -- The politics of administrative reform, Malaysia and China in perspective / LooSee Beh -- China at crossroads / Émile Kok-Kheng Yeoh. 
520 |a The phenomenal rise of China as an economic power, as well as her heightened political and military clout that has been growing in tandem with this, inevitably brought forth, both regionally and globally, increasing concern over whether she is posing a threat to regional stability and prosperity, and if so, in what way. It is the modest aim of this book to contribute to the study of the impact of this Asian giant upon the global economic landscape, to address a question that lingers in the psyche of a world that is watching her rise with a mix of curiosity, hope and trepidation: whether this emerging great trading nation represents an opportunity or a threat, a partner or a rival. The first section of the book, "China in the World", addresses the opportunities and challenges presented by China's increasing presence in Latin America, analyzes the recent Sino-Scandinavian trade and investment relations, and introduces an eclectic model to explain China's trade based on factor endowments, increasing returns, nonhomothetic preferences, and trade costs. The second section, "China and Malaysia in the Regional Economy", scrutinizes the changes of China's perception in respect of free trade agreements from early skepticism to seeing FTA as an effective tool to defuse persistent fears among her neighbours of a "China threat", tests the impact of Sino-Malaysian trade integration on Malaysia's growth, assesses the opportunities and challenges that are open to Malaysian firms under ACFTA, investigates the extent of production sharing and the position of Malaysia's exports in the quality ladder with China, and looks at whether the comparative advantages of Malaysia in goods have altered significantly since China's entry into the WTO. The last section of the book, "Challenges of Reform", focusing on the domestic political and socioeconomic nexus involved in the transformation of modern China, provides an interregional comparative 
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