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Series:   Elements in Global China

Global China's Shadow Exchange

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2024

Tak-Wing Ngo
Tak-Wing Ngo
Affiliation:
Universidade de Macau

Summary

This Element shows China has assumed a historical role in shaping a new turn in globalization. It has assertively engaged in the open globalizing process through its Belt and Road Initiative as well as in the clandestine process through its shadow networks. These networks have incorporated millions of common people who are unwitting agents of transnational exchange in a global shadow economy. In contrast to the neoliberal phase, the shadow turn in globalization is driven by a plurality of individual, corporate, and state actors with unique divisions of labour, hierarchies of control and domination, and modes of operation. By virtue of being a nodal centre for shadow operations, China is exerting its shadow power in regrouping global city networks, redefining global value chains, and reconfigurating state borders and power.
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informal economyshadow value chainborder governancetransnational networksshadow globalization
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Series: Elements in Global China
Online ISBN: 9781108975681
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 01 February 2024

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