Silva, Joaquim Ramos; Galito, Maria Sousa - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 2 (2014) 1/2, pp. 23-41
At the beginning of the 21st century's second decade, China became not only a major emerging economy, one of the BRICS, but also assumed an increasingly pivotal role in the world economy. As long since demonstrated by Hirschman (1945), wealth and economic strength also mean power and the...