China’s Strategic Investments and Its Relations with Developing Economies

2010 brings news regarding China's economic strategy. It has strengthened its trade relations withemerging economies, making significant investments, plus significant imports and exports, proving again thatit is the first commercial power in the world. China, considered being "the manufacturer of the world", alongwith Brazil and Russia, major exporters of raw materials, and India, the country which offers the cheapesttechnology services, has made the world organization, named as BRIC. In 2009, China has consolidated itsposition as the main trading partner with Brazil, a position that enabled it in 2010 to become the largestinvestor in the Brazilian territory. One of the most important Chinese strategies is the monetary one, throughwhich China is trying to grow internationally Yuan’s importance, reducing the dependence on the dollar bydriving autonomous trade flows. It is expected that Yuan will become the main currency in Asia, main goalthat will be achieved by the constitution of large reserves of Yuan on the Asian territory. Knowledge ofChinese economic policy and relations with emerging economies is essential, since 2010 shows the economicpower of this nation, the largest trading power in the world, which has led the economists to study China'seconomic situation. We used for this study, data extracted from UNCTAD and ASEAN’s reports from 2010,plus various U.S. studies on China's geostrategic position. China’s geostrategic position is an important one,especially compared with the other BRIC countries, making energy investments in the Middle East, strategythat was adopted also by India and Russia; so Russia and China created ESPO project, Eastern Siberia -Pacific - Ocean, through which China is making huge investments in energy and Russia is trying to stand outfor European markets. Through this paper, we tried to evidence China’s financial and trade relations withUSA, European Union and emerging economies, in the context of a severe economical crisis, named byNouriel Roubini in his book, White Swan