china its changing global role an introduction
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China
Its changing global role
an introduction
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Shangai Automotive Industry Corporation
• Own Rover Group – a British company.
• China is on the receiving end of TNC-based Globalisation through FDI (foreign direct investment)
• Some Chinese firms are now TNCs, are transplanting abroad & buying up foreign firms.
“When the sleeping dragon awakes the world will quake” Napoleon Bonaparte
• Li Wen is on a shopping trip that is transforming the planet. As she pushes a trolley through her local Wal-Mart, the Shenzen businesswoman looks the epitome of the global consumer. The goods she picks – rice, chicken – are not that different from those of a shopper in London or Tokyo, nor is the money she spends (£100).
• It may be hard to imagine a less exotic image of the Orient but this is the new China dream. By achieving it Mrs Li & her trolley are at the vanguard of one of the most dramatic developments of our age: the rise of China from an inward-looking agricultural nation to an industrial behemoth that is scouring the planet for energy, food & minerals.
• Guardian, Nov 2005
• Read the articles and find evidence of the change in China, particularly of the issues identified in the final sentence.
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/05/china.chrismcgreal
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/may/02/society.conservationandendangeredspecies1
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/23/china.rorycarroll• http://commoditytradealert.com/blog/?p=802• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7679471.stm• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7460364.stm• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6112360.stm• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7885045.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3893469.stm• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4271970.stm
Response to the articles
• What is neo-colonialism?
• Is there any evidence of neo-colonialism in the articles?