Jamie Peck, Public Lecture: On the frontier of party-state capitalism
Dallas Rogers | May 1, 2023
Public Lecture: Jamie Peck, 'On the frontier of party-state capitalism: Hong Kong, Guangdong & the making of the Greater Bay Area'
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Posts Tagged ‘China’
The Clash of Theory and Practice in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Tristan Kenderdine | Péter Bucsky | November 25, 2021
China’s Belt and Road is not an infrastructure project. With the external industrial policy International Capacity Cooperation being now unwound and Belt and Road floundering as the guiding foreign economic policy, the intercontinental containerised China Rail Express (CR Express) is sitting on [...]
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Global Green New Deal Needs a Global South Perspective
An Li | Ying Chen | August 10, 2021
Climate change caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) has risen to the top global threat of the 21st century. Although developed countries contributed the most to historical emissions, since the mid-2000s developing countries have overtaken developed countries as the main [...]
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Spaces of Capital: Full steam ahead for the Belt and Road Initiative in Laos
Sam Webb | September 5, 2019
As discussed in part one, situating China’s Belt and Road Initiative historically and conjuncturally within the global capitalist system provides an alternative understanding of the BRI as a product of uneven geographical development. Here, part two considers how the BRI can also be [...]
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Spaces of Capital: Uneven Geographical Development and China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Sam Webb | August 28, 2019
‘A high-stakes geopolitical game plan to augment and fortify Chinese power.’ – Will Doig, journalist.
‘China’s predatory approach to investment.’ – US National Security Council.
‘Debt-trap diplomacy.’ – US Vice President Mike Pence.
According to the [...]
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Two to tango: Cambodia and Chinese aid and investment
Shahar Hameiri | July 30, 2019
The debate about China’s rapidly growing global investment and development financing footprint has focused on deciphering Chinese intentions—whether China aims to revise or maintain the US-led ‘liberal international order’. A manifestation is the controversial ‘debt trap diplomacy’ [...]
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For the right to read
Marxism Reading Group of CSSGJ | February 4, 2018
Members of a student reading group in the People’s Republic of China are in detention for reading and discussing
As progressive reading and working groups we of the Marxism Reading Group in the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham [...]
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Internationalisation of Chinese Capital and domestic politics in Ethiopia
Edson Ziso | February 1, 2018
The internationalisation of Chinese capital is perhaps the single biggest economic story of the past two decades. The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined is approaching $1.8 trillion. Africa has not remained behind, claiming its fair share of Chinese investment [...]
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