Скачать или смотреть World in Focus 2019. Debate: How China is changing the World order

Prelegents: Katarzyna Golik (Adjunct professor at the Centre of Asian and Pacific Studies at the Institute of Political Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Bogdan Góralczyk (Director of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw)
Moderation: Rafał Tomański (journalist, Japanologist, author of books about Japan and Koreas)

Organizer: European Council on Foreign Relations / Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw

China is now not only a vast market, but most of all a promoter of a new concept of global competition. In this model, boundaries between sectors such as economy, politics or technology become increasingly blurred. On the issue of the 5G technology, which is crucial for the future of global market, China is a clear leader. Using instruments provided by the state capitalism, it can ignore laws of the market. Vast financial and military resources gives China power to change the rules of the game against interests and values of the crisis-torn West.
The “One Belt, One Road” initiative, a trade war with United States, the conflict on the Tthe South China Sea, Chinese expansion in the Africa: those are just the most important signals of shifts in the world order. Does China want to just dominate the global market, or is it willing to rewrite the rules of the global order? Are we on the brink of the end of „Pax Americana”, and at the beginning of „Pax Sinica”? How will China’s domestic situation, described as an „authoritarian modernization”, affect its foreign policy? Can Europe still play an important role in this new global game?