01:098:250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bretton Woods System, Foxconn, World Trade Organization
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Regional trade networks(nafta-north american free trade agreement, apec) Neoliberal state collaborates with private entrepreneur elites by providing infrastructure and ensuring law and order, thereby facilitating capital and accumulating growth. China"s go west project trying to make wealth more homogenous. China is the world"s largest manufacturing system. Manufacturing requires huge amounts of electricity[and water] China is rapidly changing the way it produces electricity to renew(currently major fuel source is still thermal but changing quick) The motivation is surprisingly not pollution but rather the energy security it provides and industrial development. China"s industrialization follows historical pattern in west(and japan) in terms of air quality. 2013 - china announces plan to tip towards wind, water, and solar for energy future. China is world"s most important wind power generator. China"s approach - develop green at same time to eventually surpass and succeed coal. Yangtze river 3 gorges dam, operational since 2012, biggest dam in the world produced.