ABSTRACT
China has generally benefited from globalization, particularly in the economic area, and Chinese citizens know it. For years, China has been one of the largest recipients of foreign direct investment in the world. Much of its growth has been driven by exports and imported technology. Also, it has benefited from an international economic order that has created peaceful mechanisms for avoiding trade wars, and from a global order that has allowed it to develop peacefully, despite fears that a rising China could pose a military threat to the existing world order. Little wonder then that, in a poll of eighteen countries, 87 percent of Chinese respondents maintained that “globalization is mostly good.” This was the highest proportion in the survey, and contrasts sharply with the 41 percent in Russia and 54 percent in India who also viewed international trade favorably.1
