{"id":3089,"date":"2020-10-20T06:35:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/china-research\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2020-10-22T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T09:16:26","slug":"chinas-new-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/china-research\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During many years, I have made the acquaintance with China as a country that indeed tried hard to receive recognition both at home<em> and<\/em> from abroad. This was still the case in early 2019 when China with strong words tried to defend the good sides of free trade. Consequently, China opposed decisively against the increasing protectionism of the Trump administration. The Western world liked this positioning of the Chinese political leadership.<\/p>\n<p>However, developments in Hong Kong changed things dramatically. Interventions there initiated by Beijing started to irritate the U.S., the EU and single Western governments increasingly in the past year. Poor transparency about the corona virus in the beginning of 2020 worsened things further. China missed then the chance of regaining recognition from the Western hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>All this reflects a negative development and is certainly not good for China itself, the U.S., the EU and the whole global economy. It means a major loss of global trust and confidence after a long period with a positive Chinese contribution to global GDP growth, in most years in the past decade by one fourth to one third of global growth. Many companies in our part of the world have become highly dependent on good business with China \u2013 and the other way around in a Chinese perspective. How long time can it take until the worsened trade relations &#8211; particularly with the U.S. &#8211; may become relatively normal again? Such a reversal would be a commercial win-win situation. Today, nobody can give an applicable answer.<\/p>\n<p>Major parts of the answers to the questions above are linked to politics \u2013 an area that has become more and more complicated to predict. Today, we do not know about the outcome of the American presidential election. We do not even know whether a possible President Biden would work for really improving relations to China \u2013 if yes probably not very quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The important 100<sup>th <\/sup>anniversary of China\u2019s Communist Party in 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, we cannot foresee either how the Chinese political leadership wants to define and organize its future. Determined by renewed pragmatism or mainly by dogmatic ideology?<\/p>\n<p>But we do know that China has been changing face in the past few months. There may be different reasons for this. One important reason is certainly the 100<sup>th <\/sup>anniversary of the Communist Party (CPC) in 2021. No doubt, for these anniversary celebrations three most important developments have to be met:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a4 strong political leadership of the CPC in mainland China and also in Hong Kong;\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a4 a good economic recovery after the corona crisis <\/strong>(which was \u201cconfirmed\u201d after I had written this article by the official announcement of China\u2019s GDP growth at 4.9 percent for Q3, yoy; thus, China will be the only major economy that will achieve a positive GDP growth in 2020 &#8211; though to a high extent pushed by governmental support to SoEs);<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a4 a strong international position that can resist pressure from the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s new face means for the time being that domestic priorities dominate when they are conflicting with international sympathy points. Until recently, China has been working for reasonable compromises in such conflicting situations. This chapter is now closed.<\/p>\n<p>For how long time?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lnu.se\/api\/media\/12178-fw350fh461cy28cw350ch350\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hubert Fromlet<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Affiliate Professor at the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University<br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/editorial-board\/\">Editorial board<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/china-research\">Back to Start Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During many years, I have made the acquaintance with China as a country that indeed tried hard to receive recognition both at home and from abroad. This was still the case in early 2019 when China with strong words tried to defend the good sides of free trade. 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