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Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive development of the Chinese language market. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics - China's politics, its huge social changes, and its own financial development - few have centered on how this significantly powerful nation has become more vigorous and assertive throughout the world. In China Moves Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh provides the book that many have been waiting for - a sweeping profile of China's growing prominence on the international stage. Thirty years ago, China's role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minimal and it possessed little geostrategic electric power. Today however, China's growing economic electric power has allowed it to extend its reach practically almost everywhere - from mineral mines in Africa, to currency markets in the Western world, to oilfields in the Middle East, to agribusiness in Latin America, to the factories of East Asia. Shambaugh offers an enlightening check out the manifestations of China's global presence: its comprehensive commercial footprint, its growing military services electric power, its increasing ethnical effect or "soft electric power," its diplomatic activity, and its own new prominence in global governance establishments. But Shambaugh is not any alarmist. In this well-balanced and well-researched volume, he argues that China's global presence is more extensive than deep and this China still lacks the effect befitting a significant world electric power - what he terms a "partial electric power." He draws on his generations of China-watching and his profound knowledge of the subject, and exploits a wide variety of previously untapped sources, to shed valuable light on China's current and future functions in world affairs.
