Abstract

The Chinese recent economic development is one of the most important achievement
of this century. During the 80s the American strategy to defeat the former Soviet Union
and its commercial and exchange policies aimed to diminish the Japanese trade superavit
were important factors to the Chinese development strategy. This consisted of a wide and
complex set of industrialization policies aimed to affirm the Chinese sovereign over its territory
and population.

JEL Classification: O10; P21; N15.