Brexit's Challenge to Globalization and Implications for Asia: A Chinese Perspective

• Author: Shucheng Wang
• Pages: 47-48

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X JEAIL 1 (2017)

Shucheng Wang

∗

Brexit represents a backlash against globalization and runs in parallel with Donald

Trump’s presidential election. Both of these signal the rise of the nation-state and

the rejection of the neoliberal vision of globalization in which national sovereignty

has been increasingly dissolved. The article argues that it also has fundamental

implications for Asia. In particular, China as the world’s second largest economy is

playing a bigger role in the region. Furthermore, with the rise of China, Asia’s global

order has become relatively fragile and multilayered in the sense that all big powers,

such as the US and Japan, have their relative positions in the region simultaneously.

In this regard, it would be more realistic for Asian countries to base their integration

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the changing order of the world.

Keywords

Brexit, Globalization, Asia, Rise of China, National Sovereignty

∗ Professor/Visiting Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law; Chutian Scholar Professorship at

Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China. LL.M. (Oxon), Diploma (Emory), Ph.D. (Renmin Univ.) ORCID:

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6093-0574. The author may be contacted at: shucheng.wang@fulbrightmail.org / Address:

City University of Hong Kong School of Law, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2017.10.1.03

Brexit

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s Challenge to

Globalization and

Implications for Asia:

A Chinese Perspective