The Economic and Political Attractiveness of China Grow Together

This paper proposes that, in the next decades, Chinese culture, values and even political system will be expanded as a result of its successful economic performance. This expansion will not only be the consequence of a deliberate plan, but mainly the effect of non-intentional dynamics linked to the appeal that those who economically succeed awake on others. In order to test this hypothesis, four interrelated points will be addressed along the paper. First, a short analysis of the projection of China in the world over the last decades will be made. Second, the sociological notion of the "appeal of the successful" will be examined.