- Zero-growth or declining growth in historical centres, rising growth in peripheries

- Rise of peripheries as growing conflict, not increasing adjustment within the system
- China/Soviet Union discourse limited by capitalism-socialism polemics, transition much
more comple
- China! even in the "#$s %post-&eng period of globali'ation( - %i( land owned and ma
naged by state %ii( abstinence from the global monetary mar)et %*uan +uestion(
- $China has a sovereign model,,, it is -non-capitalist, non-socialist-$,,, could move to
wards either in the future but cannot be reduced to labels, .here has been no fundam
ental or $brutal$ change in the plans of the Chinese
- China$s project has produced growing ine+uality but not growing poverty/ stabili'ed
because of general content
- $Rural land is not a commodity$
- Small-scale production w/o ownership %not eclusively rural(
- .he epanding mar)ets of emerging societies based on industries %different from ind
ustriali'ing countries( have not been based on land ownership, but on the accelerated
process of land dispossession
- .here is no industrial policy in 0ndia, and no industrial system conceived from system
atic ideas in peripheral countries where economic epansion has been based on industri
es
- &ifference between countries where there is economic epansion and emerging soci
eties/ 0ndonesia is typical, where economic epansion is based primarily on the $plunde
r$ of natural resources$ rather than improving social conditions
- 1rowing conflict between centres and peripheries is based on that generali'ed mono
poly of resource and means of production
- .he success of China has been due not to its moving into globali'ation but to its c
ontrol of that movement
- Case of relations between China and 2frica! %i( reaction of the 3orth/4est - you
must become fully integrated into the capitalist globali'ation process %ii( China - $we
want what we want$, direct negotiation with country/president
- Centres have lost their hegemony and monopoly over innovation without losing leade
rship of the world stage/ a $dangerously nervous position$