Why take this course?

China is reshaping the global geo-economic order in more ways than one. Today, it is the world’s second-largest economy, accounting for nearly 20% of global GDP. Its sheer size means that nothing that happens within the confines of its territorial bounds is limited to its economy alone. Given that China today is at the centre of the global value chains alongside the world’s largest exporting nation, any development within China’s economic policymaking ecosystem has substantive downstream effects on the global economy. Undoubtedly, China wields many levers to pull in the global economy.

Though the world has immensely benefitted from China’s growth in the past four decades and continues to do so even today, its rise has also created negative externalities, the effects of which have become much more pronounced lately. China has shown an increasing willingness to weaponise trade and its dominance in the global supply chains. As the competition with the West intensifies, China is also perfecting its coercive economic toolkit.

As geopolitical issues become part of boardroom conversations, a deeper understanding of China’s economic landscape and its interactions with the global economy is a necessity.

‘China in the Changing Geo-economic Landscape’ is an all-virtual four-week course designed to equip policymakers, business leaders, analysts, journalists, and students with the tools to understand the second-largest economy’s role in shaping the emerging geo-economic order. In the course, participants will dive deeper into issues relating to China’s phenomenal rise, its economic model, the repercussions of its rise on the global economy, weaponisation of trade, de-risking, catching up with the West, and plans to reform the global financial system.