By Tim Summers.

FPC Research Associate Tim Summers has written a new FPC Briefing that explores China's response to the shifting dynamics of global power and the implications of this for the rest of the international community.

Download FPC Briefing: Global Shifts and China's Response (170 kilobyte PDF; need help viewing PDFs?)

By Tim Summers.

New FPC Research Associate Tim Summers gives us his take on China's past, present and possible future as the People's Republic approaches its 60th Anniversary.

Download The PRC at 60– A New Chapter for China? (220 kilobyte PDF; need help viewing PDFs?)

Joshua Cooper Ramo

Supported by Hill & Knowlton

February 2007 £9.95, plus £1 p+p.

Download Brand China (260 kilobyte PDF; need help viewing PDFs?)

In this new report, from the author of the widely discussed paper 'The Beijing Consensus', Ramo argues that China's national image, and the misalignment between China's image of itself and how it is viewed by the rest of the world, may be its greatest strategic threat. It argues that alongside its other reforms, China needs a 'fifth transition' if the trust and understanding necessary for the next stage of its development are to be achieved.

For press enquiries, call 020 7729 7566 or 07830 195 812.

This paper has been kindly supported by Hill & Knowlton.

Christopher J Forster

April 2006 £9.95, plus £1 p+p.

Download China's Secret Weapon (320 kilobyte PDF; need help viewing PDFs?)

Preface by Lord Charles Powell of Bayswater

The Wall Street Journal reported recently how foreign-invested R&D centres in China have almost quadrupled to 750 over the last four years. The Foreign Policy Centre report bears this out with statistics showing that China is now ranked third in the world for total R&D spending. It estimates that by 2010 China will have the same number of science and engineering graduates as the United States. The idea that China is a sweat-shop economy is very dated. Instead it is a growing challenge to the previously comfortable technological lead of the Western countries.

Further information 

Seema Desai

January 2006

Download the report (250 kilobyte PDF; need help viewing PDFs?)

As the centre of gravity in the world's economy continues to move east, it appears increasingly anachronistic that the only Asian country represented at the G8 table is Japan, by all accounts a stagnating economic and political power in the world. The time is approaching for China to be invited to be a full member of the G8, and for the new G9 or G10 (if India is included) to focus on its central objective: to preside over and guide the world's economy.

Further information