Global Issues: Poverty and Development: China showing its claws?

Ana rticle by David Shambaugh entitled ‘T’he year China showed its claws’ in the Financial Timeslooks at what lies behind Beijing’s new assertiveness—is it their true colours showing, a display of nationalism in the run-up to a change of leadership, or confidence gained from an endorsement of their development model? Here is the full article

Useful for finding examples to back up ‘models of development’ and issues such as the north-south divide and the fragmentation of the south [China as an NIC being an ‘Asian Tiger’ being a case in point].