China and the emergence of new connectivity networks

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China’s rapid economic growth has led to the creation of new global connectivity networks that integrate trade routes, financial linkages, technological platforms, and infrastructure corridors. This emerging web is reshaping patterns of international interaction and economic influence.

​​​​​​​TEHRAN - In recent decades, China’s rapid industrial and economic growth has gone far beyond simply increasing production or expanding trade. A more significant outcome has been the emergence of new connectivity networks in the global economic and political system. By connectivity networks, we refer to the complex web of trade routes, financial linkages, technological platforms, and infrastructure corridors that connect countries and shape patterns of global interaction. Over the past three decades, China’s economic rise has played a major role in building and strengthening such networks.