China, geoeconomics and the ‘new’ state capitalism
本文批判主流国际关系分析中的“地缘经济他者化”现象，以中国国家资本主义为例，揭示英美分析如何夸大中国独特性而忽视与西方的相似性，并以此合理化新自由主义项目和全球北方的地缘政治行为。
In contributing to a critical examination of geoeconomics, this article challenges the prevalent phenomenon of ‘geoeconomic othering’ ingrained within certain mainstream International Relations (IR) analyses. Focusing on the case of state capitalism in China, we argue that in typical orientalist fashion, some predominantly Anglo-American analyses tend to disproportionally emphasise China’s distinctiveness at the expense of glaring similarities with Western polities, and use this construct to normalise the neoliberal project and the geopolitical behaviours of the Global North. The task of a critical geoeconomics is to unpack these geographical imaginaries, to transcend essentialising depictions of the state and to explore the dialectic entanglements between state and corporate power.