The Role of Chinese State and Platform Capitalists in China Cross-border E-commerce
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This article studies the role of state and capitalists from China which expand globally its economic power working through the China cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) sphere. The Chinese state has developed the CBEC since the year of 2015 onward, but it is intensively shifted under the recent contexts of trade war with USA and COVID 19 challenge. The Chinese state utilizes CBEC in order to strategically build economic diversification hopefully to reduce the reliance on exportation to USA, and at the same time to connect economically to other countries along the BRI project, as well as to support the emerging industrial lines of the CBEC supply chain. This article deploys mobility regime approach to the analysis, and applies social science methods, composing of interviewing, literature reviewing of relevant academic documents and online information. It also includes Baidu Editor method to analyze big data in Baidu search engine website, in order to examine the interest of Chinese enterprises in the CBEC.
This article finds that the mobility regime applied by the Chinese state, seen as the economic statecraft, composes of 3 elements; 1) zone of exception for CBEC; 2) Going out strategy, connecting nodes by using oversea warehouse and logistic flow, and 3) Good governance in CBEC. Besides, the mobility regime has changed the trade relationship which, on the one hand, has facilitated the China’s platform capitalists to engage enthusiastically within ASEAN E-marketplace, and on the other hand, opened the opportunity for SME from China to enter the new environment of the ASEAN E-marketplace.
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