This book examines the transformation of the Chinese developmental state into a transnational developmental state.
Focusing on Overseas Special Economic Zones (OSEZs), a program that was designed to assist mostly small- and medium-sized enterprises to “go global”, the book assesses how OSEZs became part of the Chinese leadership’s continued endeavour to foster growth and industrial transformation, feeding naturally into the Belt and Road Initiative. It goes on to investigate how globalization and integration into the world economy, as well as the narrowing of the developmental gap between China and advanced economies, have forced the developmental state to adapt its strategy and industrial policies.
Revealing how Overseas Special Economic Zones act as part of the Chinese developmental state’s endeavor to steer economic activity, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Chinese politics and economics.
This book examines the transformation of the Chinese developmental state into a transnational developmental state.
1. Introduction Part 1: Conceptualizing Chinas Overseas Engagement
2.
The Developmental State Concept
3. The Chinese Transnational Developmental
State
4. The Tool: Special Economic Zones Part 2: Case Studies on Chinese
Overseas Special Economic Zones
5. Cambodia: A Case of Public-Public
Cooperation
6. Thailand: A Case of Private-Private Cooperation
7. The United
Kingdom: A Case of Public-Private Cooperation
8. Conclusion
Jennifer Anchali Stapornwongkul is a government counselor at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. She worked in the field of trade policy, G7, and G20 and is currently working on bilateral climate and energy cooperation.