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Research Paper
Published online: May 30, 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2015.8.1.04

Global South at 50 and beyond?: The Voice from China for Establishing NIEO

An Chen & Fan Yang
Xiamen University School of Law
P.O. Box 978, 422 Siming Nan Road, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, 361005 P.R. China
Corresponding Author: chenan@xmu.edu.cn

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Abstract

The great career of Global South-South Coalition has just entered its fifties, if we take the establishment of Group 77 in 1964 as its origin. For the past five decades, the course of SSC has seen its ups and downs. Confucian philosophy of China advocates for a comprehensive self-reflection every decade, so as to comb past experience for the sake of future self-improvement. At this historical turning point, it is of necessity to retrospect, while bearing contemporary international economic circumstances in mind, the SSC's past accomplishments and difficulties, in order to re-affirm people's confidence of this long-term strategy, and to avoid tactical short-sightedness. In this way, the career of Global SSC could hopefully get ready to sail out once again for new accomplishments. For Chinese scholars, it is also their responsibility to review the New China's self-positioning on the course of SSC, and to make the world academia hear a voice from China.

Keywords : South-South Coalition, NIEO, Group 77, International Economic Law, International Financial Order, China's Positioning

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