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If the basic assumptions collected in this book are right, China’s future outlook under Xi Jinping is double-fold: On the one hand China is changing the global game both purposefully and inadvertently. On the other hand, it is itself changed by its growing interweavement with global developments on all levels: economic, financial, political, cultural, religious, technological, demographic. The question is which of these two simultaneous—and in many ways complemental—trajectories will prove to be more efficient.
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Benedikter, R. (2014). China: The Road Ahead. In: China’s Road Ahead. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9363-1_7
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