Economic statecraft: a projeção chinesa diante da transição do ciclo sistêmico de acumulação

Abstract

Since the 1970s, China has stood out as a center of capital accumulation, not only domestically but also abroad through its development policies. Meanwhile, the US, while leading the globe's financial and economic institutions, is deteriorating in terms of dominance and power. Thus, what lies ahead of us is the debate about China occupying an increasingly significant space in the political structures of the world system, making the discussion necessary to understand China and its attitudes in international spheres. Therefore, for this purpose, this scientific work is of a qualitative, explanatory and hypothetical-deductive nature, as it is a theoretical conceptual analysis, which addressed long-term systemic perspectives such as that of world systems to observe, corroborate or refute the problem raised. The present research has the general objective of analyzing the Chinese economic statecraft (E.E.) as a propulsion mechanism for the country's economic projection from 2008 onwards, considering the terminal crisis of the North American systemic cycle of accumulation and consequently the current transition of the poles of power and riches. In order to be able to identify the facts, a historical and comparative method of the Systemic Accumulation Cycles (SAC) will be used to understand how the patterns of recurrence and evolution of these have been given. Through a collection of primary and secondary data, a comparison was made between the data of the Chinese and American economic statecraft in their respective phases of material expansion, considering that the overlaps and patterns of the cycles become essential to understand and prospect scenarios for the unfolding of the transition of accumulation and hegemonic centers. Therefore, what can be seen is that China, even though it has been playing a leading role on the international stage, its intentions are not aimed at becoming a hegemon or the center of a CSA. What China aims for is to maintain its high standards of development through its multilateral relations in the debate forums, intensifying a new multilateral order that contributes to its projection projects, in addition to gradually continuing to invest its capital in win-win relations with the rest of the world through its E.E.