Class, Race and Corporate Power Volume 6 Issue 1 Article 8 2018 Who Leads Global Capitalism? The Unlikely Rise of China Jerry R. Harris
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower Part of the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Harris, Jerry R. (2018) "Who Leads Global Capitalism? The Unlikely Rise of China," Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 6 : Iss. 1 , Article 8. DOI: 10.25148/CRCP.6.1.007548 Available at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol6/iss1/8 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts, Sciences & Education at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Class, Race and Corporate Power by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Who Leads Global Capitalism? The Unlikely Rise of China Abstract The idea that China, once the center of world revolutionary passion, should lead global capitalism is as unexpected as it is ironic. But the emergence of the transnational capitalist class (TCC) has promoted a multi-centric world order where “everything solid melts into air.” Disappearing is the dominant position of the US, further undercut by the erratic nationalism of President Trump. With the US acting as if globalization is the unwanted step-child of its hegemonic power, the guardianship of transnational capital has fallen to the Chinese. Keywords China Foreign Policy, US Foreign Policy, Rise of China, Transnational Capitalist Class Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.