Mapping Chinese Visions of Their Future in the World

Overview

In May 2004, the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) launched a new programme of research, publications, forums and public discussions on China. The programme aims to engage a broader group of actors with emerging new thinking on the social and economic consequences of globalisation on China and the impact of the rising Chinese economy on the future of globalisation.

The programme will take Chinese perspectives as its departure point, focusing on three principal areas:

• How China's government, interest groups and diverse communities see their values and how they project these values to the world;
• Outside attempts to understand and engage with the paramount values of the Chinese government, leading interest groups and diverse communities; and
• The role of these diverse, often competing, Chinese actors in globalisation and global trends.

The China and Globalisation Programme will penetrate beyond broad generalisations about China as some hypothesised monolithic actor yet to have its significant impact on global order. The programme will examine a variety of cutting edge issues and new ideas arising from the huge influence that the wealthier China and its diverse interest groups and communities are already having, both internally and externally: on energy and raw materials; public diplomacy; security and international order; development and governance; technology; and finance and international economic order.

There will be four main sets of activities in the coming twelve months:

• High level forums in London, Brussels, Beijing and Shanghai engaging senior participants from business, government and academia
• Publication of policy reports and papers from Chinese authors under the rubric 'New Thinking from China'
• Publication of policy reports and papers from international observers (business, government, journalists and academics) on the various Chinese perceptions of their country's place in their world
• Associated public forums, newspaper articles and public lectures

Download more information on the China programme below.

On the 10th and 11th May 2004, the Foreign Policy Centre launched its new 'China and Globalisation' Programme with a series of seminars held at Downing Street, HM Treasury, Parliament and the Guildhall. The two days also saw the establishment of a new partnership with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, formalised in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding at the Downing Street session, which was attended by the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, and Prime Minister Tony Blair. The topics covered in the seminars ranged from international security and EU-China relations to technology transfer and China's financial reforms. We were fortunate to have participants and speakers involved from the top levels of politics, business, academia and the media, from Geoff Mulgan, Lord Hannay, Andrew Gowers and Peter Mandelson MP to Sir David Clementi, John Thornton, Lord Sainsbury and Howard Davies.

For more information about future events and publications contact Andrew Small at andrew.small@fpc.org.uk (Beijing) or china@fpc.org.uk (London)

Download the programme prospectus (390 kilobyte PDF; need help viewing PDFs?)