As the financial markets continue to open up, the stakes and investments of foreign banks in China are growing. American banks, in particular, are pumping more money into China than ever before. The big US players are also targeting the growing middle class. On the one hand, China will not leave control of the country's financial markets entirely to market forces. On the other hand, American money creates security against Washington's political escapades.
By Frank Sieren
Central concepts of international relations, such as freedom, democracy, or multilateralism, can be found equally in European and Chinese discourses. Yet the same words often conceal very different concepts in liberal democracies and China.
By Redaktion Table