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China’s global profile is changing dramatically. An active member of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods organizations (the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) since the mid-1970s, Beijing is now building new multilateral financial institutions where it sits at the center of the table, making rules and setting standards. After the two decades from the 1980s to the early 2000s, when it aspired mainly to integrate into the existing international economic institutions, China has transformed into an increasingly confident global actor, keen to capitalize on its accumulated resources and experience, and looking to assert itself more prominently in the world economy.
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