The Future of China’s Development and Globalization Views from Ambassadors to China

This is an open access book.

As the world continues to recover from the fear and uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new set of challenges like increased geopolitical tensions and climate change have become increasingly prominent. This open access book, which contains the views of ambassadors to Beijing on topics ranging from bilateral relations to potential cooperation, global development and even more of the most immediate issues, aims to help readers make sense of our changing world and China’s role in it.

 Building on the success of our previous volume China and the World in a Changing Context: Perspectives from Ambassadors to China, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) has invited 27 ambassadors to examine China’s role in this context of constant flux, focusing specifically on China’s perspective, including its trade and investment ties with other countries, as well as its role in multilateral regional relations and global governance.

 These diplomatic envoys from countries around the world serve as pivotal contact points between nations across a wide range of fields, from economics and culture to health and the environment. Their perspectives, representing both developing and industrialized countries, are both invaluable and illuminating—not only in conveying the views and experiences of their own country, but also for their insights into global affairs and China’s development.

 It is our hope that the views expressed in this volume will inspire even more discussion on the next best step to take in finding solutions to the problems we face, and in particular how China can use its own experience and wisdom to better contribute and engage with the world in finding solutions together. This book provides a wealth of perspective and insight that we hope will benefit not only academics and policy makers, but also the private sector and individuals. 

Convergences in Pakistan-China Development: Perspectives of the Pakistani Ambassador.- Croatia and China in the Diamond Era of Bilateral Relations.- Future milestones in Switzerland-China relations.- China and Sri Lanka: Neighbourly Relations in a Rapidly Evolving World.- For a useful dialogue between Spain and China.- Status and Prospects of EU-China relations.

Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a think tank ranked among top 100 think tanks in the world. He is also a former Counselor of China State Council and Dean of the Institute of Development Studies of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics of China, Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation, and a Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs. He is currently a steering committee member of Paris Peace Forum and an advisory board member of Duke Kunshan University. He has served as an expert for the World Bank, IOM, and ILO. He pursued his Ph.D. studies at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Manchester. He was Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institute. His books in English include Globalizing China (2012); China Goes Global (2016); Handbook on China and Globalization (2019); Globalization of Chinese Enterprises (2020); Consensus or Con?ict?: China and Globalization in the 21st Century (2021); China and the World in a Changing Context: Perspectives from Ambassadors to China (2022); The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World (2022); Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century: CCG Global Dialogues (2022); and Escaping Thucydides’s Trap: Graham Allison on China-US relations(2023) .

Dr. Mabel Lu Miao is the Co-Founder and Secretary-General of CCG, a Munich Security Conference (MSC) Young Leader and the Founder of Global Young Leader Dialogue (GYLD). She is also the Deputy Director General of the International Writing Center at Beijing Normal University, Adjunct Professor of Huaqiao University and Adjunct Researcher of Beijing Foreign Studies University. She received her Ph.D. in contemporary Chinese studies from Beijing Normal University and has been a visiting scholar at New York University’s China House and the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. She is a co-author of many Chinese Social Science Academy blue books and Chinese Social Science Foundation’s research project reports. She has published a number of books in Chinese, which detail China’s outbound business and global talent. Her latest publications in English are: International Migration of China: Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration (2017); Blue Book of Global Talent; Annual Report on the Development of Chinese Students Studying Abroad; China’s Domestic and International Migration Development (2019); and Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future (2022).