This book analyses China’s emergence on the global stage and helps readers to understand its superpower aspiration by assessing it from different hidden aspects, debunking myths, and questioning conventional wisdom, which often are just conventional views without much wisdom, through rigorous research thoughts backed by data and evidence. This book will interest China watchers, scholars and economists.

Chi Lo is a university lecturer, Senior Economist at a multinational bank based in Hong Kong, and author of more than a dozen books on Chinese and Asian economic development and markets. He has spoken at international forums, including the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, Asian Development Bank, the British House of Lords, and the European Commission.