Enter the dragon

This book represents the outcomes of a conference at which researchers, policy-makers, and business representatives considered China{u2019}s meteoric economic rise and what this portends for revised trade relations between that country and SACU. It brings together all the papers delivered at the conference, as well as an authoritative analysis of China{u2019}s growing consumption of global resources. These contributions comprehensively set out the opportunities and challenges presented by a free trade regime, for consideration by policy-makers and other stakeholders in the subregion{u2019}s development.