Six international economists examine China's growth and global development initiatives. Since the reforms of 1978, China has experienced an explosion of growth that radically transformed not only the country's economy and society but also the global economic and strategic landscape. For decades, China's economy expanded at an average annual rate of 10%-an unprecedented phenomenon. While other Asian nations like Japan and South Korea also underwent periods of rapid transformation, China's vast economic scale created a far greater global impact. This book examines China's economic development through the lens of five leading economists from outside China. It explores both the internal dynamics and external ramifications of China's rise over the past 40 years-up to the present day, as the country faces mounting challenges and uncertainty stemming from the U.S.'s ongoing economic and trade pressures. AUTHORS: John Ross is Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, former Director of Economic and Business Policy for the Mayor of London. Félix Debierre contributed to the modernization of public debt management at the French Treasury in the late 1980s, now publishes translations of ancient Chinese mathematical treatises. Gustavo Alejandro Girado is professor and Director of the Postgraduate Program in Specialization in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the National University of Lanús (UNLa). Luis Antonio Paulino is professor and Director of the Confucius Institute at the São Paulo State University, special advisor to the Brazilian Ministry of Finance (2003). Julio Sevares is economist and journalist, professor in the Chinese Studies Specialization Program at the Institute of International Relations of the National University of La Plata. Jérôme Ravenet is philosophy teacher in secondary education, taught Chinese at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence for 20 years.