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University Press, 2010); Streeck, Buying Time. 21. See Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (New York: Verso, 2014); Patrick Neveling, “Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and the Long March of Capitalist Development Policies during the Cold War,” in Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence, ed. Leslie James and Elisabeth
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
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, it had some success. In an effort to attract capital, countries around the world ceded aspects of their sovereignty to foreign corporations, establishing tax-free special economic zones, allowing oil companies to maintain private militaries, privatizing public resources like water and electricity grids, overlooking bribery and money laundering, or affording other special rights
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
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a fishing village next to Hong Kong, an Asian finance hub, then still under British control. In 1980, Deng, the Chinese premier, designated Shenzhen a special economic zone (SEZ), relaxing controls on private industry. Businesses could be set up in a heartbeat, and fortunes were there to be seized. When Wang arrived in
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, the Chinese premier who had opened China to private businesses. Deng’s selection of Shenzhen—the city where Wang Chuanfu established BYD—as the first special economic zone had epitomized this kind of experimental policy. In the case of the electric-car program, the stones would be the ten pilot cities, selected by
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, 44, 45 Senkaku Islands, 260 the Sentry, 207, 269 Serikat Buruh Sejahtera Indonesia, 252 Sese Seko, Mobutu, xiii, 17n, 154, 288–89, 340 SEZ. See special economic zones SFAIC. See Shanghai Far East Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation Shamir, Yitzhak, 123 Shanghai Aircraft Industrial Corporation (SAIC), Aronson and, 95–96, 370–71 Shanghai
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South Africa, 117, 299–300 Southern African Metal Refiners Congo (Samref), 154–55 Soviet Union, 50, 291 cobalt use in, 70–71 collapse of, 92 special economic zones (SEZ), 196 in China, 105 Special Report, 3–4 S&P Global, 23 Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 139 Stade des Martyrs, 124 stainless steel, 247 Stanford
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they were feeling optimistic—beyond that, après moi le déluge. Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future INTRODUCTION Shatter the Map The world’s special economic zones. The dot size corresponds to the area covered by each zone. For an interactive version of the map see openzonemap.com. COURTESY OF THE ADRIANOPLE
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from it. Zones come in a bewildering range of varieties—at least eighty-two, by one official reckoning.5 Among the more prominent are the special economic zone, the export-processing zone, and the foreign-trade zone. At one end of the socioeconomic spectrum, zones can be nodes in the networks of cross
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communities began with the seizure of public roads through the installation of steel barriers, before moving on to blue-sky master-planned “colonies” clustered around special economic zones.25 A venture capitalist who worked for Peter Thiel coined an ingenious term when he called this form of soft secession underthrow.26 For him
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river by feeling for the zones. After he became paramount leader in December 1978—and Time’s Person of the Year—the first four experimental special economic zones (SEZs) were created on the Pearl River Delta, nestled up to Hong Kong on the South China Sea. In contrast to the shock treatment meted
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man of Europe,’ the other as victim of the Cultural Revolution.”18 China was already emulating aspects of Hong Kong in its coastal experiments. Its special economic zones showed that you did not need to create new nations to have laboratories: you could just carve up old ones. At the pub, Howe began
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to be the realization of something autochthonous rather than an import from beyond. It also added a cultural gloss to the strategy of fragmentation through special economic zones. Rather than merely miniatures of the Hong Kong Crown Colony or copycat export processing zones, these were presented as part of the localism of traditional
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desert to minimize flight risk and costs of upkeep.41 Jebel Ali ended up being Dubai’s most important innovation. It followed the model of special economic zones the world over but became more than just another industrial park. In time, it became the template for Dubai’s signature model of patchwork urbanization
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the Red Sea. The following year, Jafza International (Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority International) was created to advise foreign governments on setting up their own special economic zones—globalizing the patchwork model.60 Jafza International described its job as providing “Dubai expertise.”61 In 2004, it began managing Port Klang in Malaysia.62
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conglomerate Tata Group to create seven logistics parks in India.65 It advertised its entry into Russia, where it would advise on the construction of special economic zones, and signed a memorandum of understanding with Libya.66 It announced the construction of an $800 million tax-free port in Senegal.67 Romanian officials
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asked: “Are they looking at turning Solomon Islands into a colony?” It makes more sense to say they are turning the country into a zone. Special economic zones on islands of the Philippines; fishery zones off leased islands near Papua New Guinea; an economic development zone along the railway in Cambodia; a proposal
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.”41 Looking around the world, one sees zones everywhere. During the pandemic, China moved forward with plans to turn the island of Hainan into a special economic zone with tax holidays for investors, duty-free shopping, and relaxed regulations on pharmaceuticals and medical procedures.42 As a development strategy in Africa, zones are
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owned and managed enclaves.44 Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s government, often described purely in terms of its Hindu chauvinism, has been ramping up special economic zones. “Lots of business will be shifted from Singapore and Dubai because of these incentives,” says the government representative in charge.45 Hungary has turned to
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a more nationalist form of economic development, yet at the same time it opened new special economic zones for Korean investment.46 The City of London is returning to its twentieth-century roots by trying to invent itself as an offshore market for
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: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011); and Patrick Neveling, “Free Trade Zones, Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and Global Imperial Formations 200 BCE to 2015 CE,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, ed. Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope (Basingstoke
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, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). 5. François Bost, “Special Economic Zones: Methodological Issues and Definition,” Transnational Corporations 26, no. 2 (2019): 142. One scholar solves the problem by simply referring to the capitalized Zone. Jonathan Bach
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-havens/. 12. In 2019, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) proposed referring to all zones as special economic zones. This does not include the zone-like tax havens. UNCTAD, World Investment Report: Special Economic Zones (Geneva: United Nations, 2019), xii. 13. The United States has almost three hundred such foreign-trade zones. 14
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Thatcherism for the Johnson Era,” Guardian (UK edition), March 1, 2020, Global Newsstream. 17. Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society (Cambridge: Polity, 2021), 231. 18. Bost, “Special Economic Zones,” 151. 19. Stuart M. Butler, “The Enterprise Zone as a Political Animal,” Cato Journal 2, no. 2 (Fall 1982): 374. 20. Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles
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, Transformation of China, 403. 101. Zhang, “Hong Kong’s Capitalist Fundamentals,” 2860. 102. Vogel, Transformation of China, 403. 103. Jin Wang, “The Economic Impact of Special Economic Zones: Evidence from Chinese Municipalities,” Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013): 137. 104. See Naughton, Growing Out of the Plan, chap. 4. 105. Shaohua Zhan, “The
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-CIO, CLC. 97th Congress, second session, March 22, 1982, 51–52. For work by the authoritative scholar on EPZs see Patrick Neveling, “Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and the Long March of Capitalist Development Policies During the Cold War,” in Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence, ed. Leslie James and Elisabeth
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Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), 59. 80. Orenstein, Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism, 216. 81. UNCTAD, World Investment Report: Special Economic Zones, xii. 82. For this process of disenchantment see Patrick Bond, Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (London: Pluto Press, 2000). 83. James
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rear operating base for the Reagan administration’s contra offensive against Sandinista-governed Nicaragua. 12. Michael Engman, “Success and Stasis in Honduras’ Free Zones,” in Special Economic Zones: Progress, Emerging Challenges, and Future Directions, ed. Thomas Farole and Gokhan Akinci (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2011), 49. The domestic term is ZIPs (Zonas Industriales
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ZEDEs allowed by the law was long, including “International Financial Centers, International Logistics Centers, Autonomous Cities, International Commercial Courts, Special Investment Districts, Renewable Energy Districts, Special Economic Zones … Special Agricultural Zones, Special Tourism Zones, Social Mining Zones, [and] Social Forest Zones.” An additional change came in the zone’s governance. The governor and
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to Face Drug Charges,” New York Times, April 21, 2022, ProQuest. 86. Gustavo Palencia, “Honduran Congress Unanimously Nixes Special Economic Zones,” Reuters, April 21, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/honduran-congress-unanimously-nixes-special-economic-zones-2022-04-21/. 87. Naomi Klein, “Disaster Capitalism: The New Economy of Catastrophe,” Harpers (October 2007): 55. 88
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Creates Hainan Special Health Care Zone to Tap Growing Medical Tourism Market,” South China Morning Post, July 14, 2020, Global Newsstream. 43. UNCTAD, Handbook on Special Economic Zones in Africa (Geneva: UNCTAD, 2021), xvii. 44. Claire W. Herbert and Martin J. Murray, “Building from Scratch: New Cities, Privatized Urbanism and the Spatial Restructuring
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. 50. Mogielnicki, A Political Economy of Free Zones in Gulf Arab States, 205. 51. Thibault Serlet, “How Special Economic Zones Are Quietly Advancing State Capitalism,” FEE.org, February 25, 2022, https://fee.org/articles/how-special-economic-zones-are-quietly-advancing-state-capitalism/. 52. Yi Wu, “Subcounty Administration in Rural Southwest China (1950–2000): Changing State
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Kong and “iron rice bowl” tradition of permanent employment liberalism in manufacturing zones of real estate shows in rise of Singapore and Soviet Union and special economic zones (SEZs) in zones in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chirac, Jacques CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency) Ciskei, South Africa cities. See also city-states; specific cities
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rubber rule of law rules Russia. See also Soviet Union in 1990s Big Bang overnight price reforms in Dubai and invasion of Ukraine oligarchs in special economic zones (SEZs) in Russians sacrifice zones Saez, Emmanuel Sandy Springs, Georgia San Francisco, California Sani Abacha San Marino São Paulo, Brazil Sarah Scaife Foundation Sassen, Saskia
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Soviet Union China and dissolution of fragmentation of glasnost and Soviet Union, former, “shock therapy” privatization in SpaceX Spain Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong special economic zones (SEZs) “speculative communities” Spencer, Richard the Spire “Square Mile” of financial district, London Sri Lanka Srinivasan, Balaji Standard Oil Starbase start-up political jurisdictions Startup
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1978 Chinese reforms that started the ‘household responsibility system’ in the countryside, giving some farmers ownership of their products for the first time, the first ‘special economic zone’ was formed in Shenzhen in 1980. This concept allowed for the introduction and experimentation of more flexible market policies. Although the reforms were slow and
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1980s. For the first time in decades, everyone had enough food on their tables. Further reforms continued through the decade. First in a handful of “special economic zones,” then at other locations along the coast, foreign enterprises, mostly small-scale export-processing operations from Hong Kong, opened factories and processing plants. An increasing
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Foods, 22, 120 Softbank, 37, 156, 194 SOHO China, 48 Sohu, 158, 159 sourcing networks, 188 South China Morning Post, 37 South Korea, 121, 141 special economic zones, 43 Standard Chartered, 151 State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television, 219 State Council, 215 state-owned enterprises, 9–10, 13–14, 36
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flows’.36 This strategy of frictionless profit is not new. It draws from what the American researcher Jeffrey Winters in 1996 coined ‘zonal capitalism’: ‘a special economic zone — sometimes walled, but always clearly bounded — in which an intensified effort has been made to create a climate favourable to business’.37 We find the
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. Economic equality was no longer the goal of government. As part of the encouragement of entrepreneurship, Deng designated four areas on China’s coast as Special Economic Zones, which would be particularly attractive to foreign investors, thereby ending the preference for self-sufficiency that had marked the economy under Mao (see also Chapter
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sell their crops on the free market, and individuals encouraged to set up enterprises (see Chapter 3). In the early 1980s, Deng Xiaoping established the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in port cities on China’s southern coast. This signalled his desire to lay down the first phase of economic growth: it would start
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, Edgar 50 society 71–95 Song dynasty 97 Song Jiaoren 30 Soviet Union 35, 36, 52, 53, 56, 62, 80, 84, 101 see also Russia Special Economic Zones (SEZs) 62, 102 sport 88, 89 student protests 63–4, 94 see also May Fourth Movement; Tian’anmen Square protest Sun Yatsen 18, 28–9
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only Apple, Google and Microsoft – such is the scale of the Chinese consumer base. Yet whilst firms such as Alibaba and Huawei were founded in special economic zones such as Hangzhou and Shenzhen, Z-innoway subsumes a startup culture on a smaller scale that is more reminiscent of Silicon Roundabout in London and
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