IIPPE Annual Conference China Panels

2025 IIPPE Annual Conference

China workshop: Why China Is Not Imperialist

1. Primitive Socialist Accumulation, ‘Common Prosperity’ in China and Its Implications to the Developing Countries. Sam-Kee Cheng.
2. Imperialism and capital export. Michael Roberts.
3. Colonialism and imperialism versus a Community of Common Destiny for Humankind: violence and hegemony versus harmony. Mick Dunford.
4. A critique of Western-centric discourses on China and imperialism. Dic Lo.

Moving Beyond Capitalism Panel 1

1. Attempt of Integrated Analysis for a Complex World: Developing Frameworks for Modern Political Economy. Oleksandr Pidchosa.
2. Nonprofit Food Advocacy Organisations: Moving Beyond Capitalism or Shoring Up Neoliberal Hegemony?. Jake Richardson.
3. The Great Systemic Clash: Anti-Imperialist Environmentalism Amid the Crises of the Earth System and Capitalist World-Syste. Alejandro Pedregal.

China Panel 1.

1. Divergent Governance Paths: Exploring Local Industrial Strategies in China’s NEV Development. Fanqi Lin.
2. China and Electric Vehicles: Towards a Renewable Energy Transition. Alicia Girón & Adheli Galindo.
3. Consideration on China and renewables capitalism in the Green Transition. Dic Lo.

China Panel 2.

1. China in Contemporary Capitalism. Esther Majerowicz.
2. The Political Economy of Brazil-China Relations: Reprimarisation or Development Opportunities. Sam-Kee Cheng.
3. China and the International Order: Revisionist Power or Reformist Actor?. Zeynab Fahardi.

China Panel 3.

1. China’s Evolving Foreign Policy in An Era of Geopolitical Competition. Xinwen Zhang.
2. The Impact of Talent Migration on Hong Kong’s Economy and Its Role in the BRI during the Crisis of the World Capitalist System. Natalia Chaplynska.

2024 IIPPE Annual Conference

China workshop: Roundtable Discussion of The Rise of China and Its Implications to the World

1. The rise of China’s economy both before and after Deng. Michael Roberts.
2. China and the challenge of the ‘new productive forces’. Dic Lo.
3. China’s Going Out as an alternative towards planning in peripheral countries. Elias Jabbour.
4. The political significance of China’s position and actions regarding Palestinian question in the aftermath of October 7^th. Salam Alshareef.
5. China and the Role of Socialism in the Geopolitical Economy of the Capitalist World. Radhika Desai.

Panel 1: China’s Development Strategy

• Is China a Developmental State? A Case Study of China’s NEV Industry. Fanqi Lin.
• FDI in China during Xi Jinping’s era (2013-2023). Tomás Costa de Azevedo Marques.
• What kind of industrial policy does China need to develop new pillar industries for an uncertain future?. Zhenzhen Zhang.

Panel 2: Capital Market in China

• China and financialization: the performance, the causes, and the consequences. Zhenyu Zhang.
• Crisis in the Building Chinese Sector. Could “It” Happen Again? Institutional Investors, Evergrande and Country Garden. Alicia Girón.

Panel 3: China in World Capitalism

• Primitive socialist accumulation as contender development: Comparing the political economy of development of the PRC and postwar Japan. Sam-Kee Cheng.
• BRICS plus and de-dollarization in West Asia. Salam Alshareef.
• China, the United States, and the Global South: Political Economy of Late Development. Dic Lo.

Panel 4: Chinese Capitalism or Socialism?

• Knowledge and Power in China’s Economics Education: Looking into the Anomaly. Ling Gao.
• China as a socialist inter-national project and the limits of capitalism. Zhun Xu.

Panel 5: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Tween Years and Beyond

• BRI’s Strategic Recalibration Towards Delinking: Identifying and Confronting Global Extractivism. Yue Zhou (Joe) Lin.
• BRI Agencies and Intentional Flexibility: A Case Study of Railway Projects in Africa. Zhengli Huang.
• State empowerment and Chinese SOEs at the forefront: the Belt and Road offers state-led pathways to bridge the global gap in Panama. Qizhen Wang.
• Resisting Neoliberalisation in Global Knowledge Capitalism – How should China’s Outward-oriented Higher Education (OHE) via the Belt and Road progress?. Yangguang Chen.
• BRICS plus: The clash of globalization in a multicentric system. Javier Vadell and Samuel Spellmann.

2023 IIPPE Annual Conference

Neoliberalism and China: Neoliberalism, Finance and Industry

• The Internationalization of Chinese Contender State and the Question of Development Policy Space: The Case of Development Finance. Salam Alshareef.
• Roads to No Alternative: the rejection of proposals for the socialisation of investment in France, Sweden and the UK, 1973-1983. Neil Warner.
• Financial Capital Hegemony and Productive Structure: Determinants of the Trajectory of the Brazilian Economy in the 21^st Century. Pedro Fonseca & Ricardo Dathein.
• Meta-Liberal States, Mega-Events, and Institutional Trust: Empirical Evidence from Japan. Grace Gonzalez.
• Strengthening of Forced Eradication on Trust in Institutions and Political and Community Participation. Natalia Guerrero Trinidad.

China 1. Book Launch: Capitalism, Coronavirus and War – A Geopolitical Economy

Author and Presenter: Radhika Desai; Discussant: Dic Lo

PEID and China 1: Challenges to Industrialisation for Developing Countries: Theory and Practice

• The Quest for National Independence and Industrial Development – Comparative Study of the Revolutionary History and Development in Ireland and China. Sam-Kee Cheng
• Global China for Africa’s Industrialization: Uneven and Combined Development?. Carlos Oya.
• Historicizing state-led accumulation through structural transformation: the case of Uzbekistan from primitive socialist accumulation to the BRI. Lorena Lombardozzi.

China 2: China in the World

• Large Chinese Corporations in Latin America: Economic and Institutional Investors. Alicia Girón.
• Analysis of Geoeconomic Relations China – Brazil Post 2012. Rafael Silveira.
• The e-CNY and Its Possible Impacts on the Financial System in China. Bullio Mattos.

Moving Beyond Capitalism and China Joint Panel

• Mao Zedong and Socialist Institutional Economics. Jie Meng.
• Are Markets Incompatible with the Goals of Socialism? Al Campbell.
• China in Historical Capitalism: Contemporary Transformation and the Quest for Alternatives. Dic Lo.

PEID and China 2: State and Industrial Policy: The Case of China

• The Rise of China and The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy. Tomás Costa de Azevedo Marques.
• A Chinese Bureaucracy for Innovation-driven Development?. Alexandre Gomes.
• “One Belt One Road” in an Uncertain World: Is the Initiative Changing? A Preliminary Analysis Through a Systematic Review of the Chinese Scientific Debate. Elisa Barbieri.

China 3: Features of China’s Political Economy

• China’s Transition to the Developmental State. Ziqian Zhang.
• The Degree of Control Over Enterprises as a Distinctive Feature of the Economic System: The Case of China. David Luebeck.
• The Political Economy of Transnational Research Networks: The Case of Covid-19 for China and the US. Chiara Pollio.
• Rural-Urban Migration, Land Management, and Agricultural Production: A Case Study from Rural China. Sudan Zhao.

2022 IIPPE Annual Conference

China I. Theorising Chinese development

1. The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy. Elias Jabbour
2. Planning for Uncertainty: Lessons from China. Alberto Bartoccini
3. China and the Clash of Capitalisms. Tak-Wing Ngo
4. The Road to Common Prosperity and the Political Economy of China’s Development. Xinwen Zhang

China II. Internal dynamics and international connections

1. The Influencing Factors of Offshore RMB Overseas Demand: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Analysis. Yongqi Feng and Tianshu Zhang
2. A Political Economy Perspective of the Five-Years Plan and the Inward FDI Regulation Policy. Tomás Costa de Azevedo Marques
3. China Economic Reforms – Purposes and Limitations. Sam-Kee Cheng

China III. Theorising alternatives to US world dominance

1. China and the Non-Capitalist Way of Development as an Alternative to the Pax Americana. Gabriel Quintanilha
2. Restating the People’s Sovereignty: China, Anti-Imperialism, and the Political Economy of Historical Justice. Dic Lo
3. China’s Assimilation of Marxism and Its Critique of Neoliberalism.
   Hong Wang
4. Towards a Theory of Chinese Embedded Globalization.
   Javier Vadell and Samuel Spellmann

China IV. Futures of the Belt and Road Initiative

1. China’s Foreign Policy Assets Along the BRI: Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy. Gianluca Sampaolo & Martina Tullio
2. The Belt and Road in the Middle East: Beyond the Territorial and Capitalist Logics of Power. Salam Alshareef
3. Will the “New Silk Road” be Gray or Green? Josef Baum.

China V. Crisis management and governance

1. Has COVID-19 Reshaped Chinese Transnational Research Networks in Health Sciences? Lauretta Rubini.
2. China’s Global Engagement at Times of Decoupling and zero-Covid Strategy: An Assessment. Claudio Petti
3. Poverty Alleviation and Welfare in China: a View from the New Projectment Economy. Ana Caroline Sampaio
4. On the People’s Congresses System and Whole-Process People’s Democracy in China. Enfu Cheng
5. Political Risk and the Semiconductor Industry: National Risk Management and Corporate Resilience in Taiwan. Mayumi Tabata

China VI: Realities of the Belt and Road Initiative

1. Belt and Road Initiative and Italian Ports: Economic, Social and Geopolitical Aspects. Dominique Lepore
2. The Belt and Road Initiative and the Jewel of Asia Central: China-Uzbekistan Relations in the Commercial and Infrastructure Fields via BRI.
   Beatriz Silva Flores dos Santos
3. The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of China – Mercosur Relations in the 21^st Century. Rafael Silveira
4. China, Indebtedness and Overdue Portfolios in the Post-Pandemic. Alicia Girón

China VII. State capacity and rural-urban migration

1. Industrial Policy and Sectoral Priorities in China. Analysing the Strategic Presence of Government in Key Industries. Mattia Tassinari
2. Chinese Innovation Ecosystem: Economic and Competitiveness Planning / Projectment. Cintia Godoi, Sandro Bazzanella and Vitor Boa Nova
3. Heterogenous Effects of Rural-Urban Migration and Migrant Earnings on Land Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from China. Sudan Zhao

2021 IIPPE Annual Conference

China IV. China’s “Going Out”: Theory and Practice

• Primitive socialist accumulation in China and some implications by Sam-Kee Cheng