Abstract
More than a hundred years ago, the World powers have started to turn China into a “subcolony”, and now the world faces a reversed process. China expands over the world, not with the use of military force, but adopting economic tools to make other countries heavily depended or indebted to China. The modern geopolitical situation requires new solutions, and it seems relevant to develop them basing not only on the present short-term concerns, but also on the legacy of the past era. There is a need for detailed understanding of the phenomenon of "reverse colonization" in order to deploy effective measures in order to ensure independent development of the economic and cultural situation in the non-Chinese world.
Highlights
In the second half of the 19th century, the European powers forced open the shell of China's self-isolation
Letting things go by themselves seems short-sighted. Just as it happens with promising markets, which the Chinese, in their thirst for quick profit, are turning into a trampled wasteland, it can happen with the world order as a whole
Initiative, Valdai Discussion Club 2020 URL: https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/china-and-europebri-and-the-17-1-initiative/
Summary
In the second half of the 19th century, the European powers forced open the shell of China's self-isolation. The line of events of this process is well studied and described [1, 2, 3], new studies can only add colourful nuances to the overall picture of what happened The result of this process was that the economic game in the enormous market of the gigantic country began to be played according to the rules that were determined from outside its borders. China – not as forcefully as Western countries did – penetrates the markets and even ways of life of the rest of the world, introducing its own rules of the game, and to many people in the West, especially in Europe, this penetration appears to be an invasion. Despite the seeming symmetry of these two processes (in the 19th century, the West was striving to get to the markets of China, in the 21st century China is expanding to the West, and the driving force behind both processes was and is the desire to expand living space and obtain material benefits, gain influence on world processes and political weight), there are serious differences in approaches due to the mentality, traditions and historical characteristics of the development of expansionists and targets of expansion
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