From China’s Reform to the World’s Reform

ABSTRACT

The article explains that the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, as a distinct Globalisation 2.0, is not only an innovative activity born after the 2008 global financial and economic crisis, but that there are also deeper important causes behind mainly in the more than 40 years of China’s reform and opening up since 1978. It illuminates why the reform and opening up can be considered a “revolutionary transformation,” and how it has passed the stages of its development, with its guiding principles, changes in the spheres of planning, the market, and kinds of ownership. The article explains how it leads to the Belt and Road Initiative as a reform of global interactions.

KEYWORDS:

• China
• reform
• revolutionary reform
• the Belt and Road
• global

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Notes on Contributor

Marek Hrubec is Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Centre of Global Studies in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He also teaches at Charles University in Prague. In 2014 and 2015, he was the first Head of East Africa Star University. His publications focus on social, economic and political justice, global conflicts, intercultural dialogue, development and the global poor. He authors From Misrecognition to Justice: A Critical Theory of Global Society and Politics (in Czech, 2011) and edits Social Transformations and Revolutions (with J. P. Arnason, 2016). He lectured in many countries and regions including European Union, United States, China, Russia, Brazil, Chile, Iran, India, Vietnam, New Zealand.