Beijing Consensus as a Base of Social Changes in PRC

Abstract

The article deals with the principles of the Beijing Consensus, which has become an alternative to the Washington Consensus, - the list of recommendations for the implementation of macroeconomic policies in developing countries. American economist Joshua Cooper Ramo proposed this title for the Chinese model of social changes and perceived it not only as an attempt to adapt the Western market economy principles to the cultural and political realities of modern China but as a new physics of development and power. One of the main tasks of this model was an attempt to protect the country from the outside factors that could negatively influence the process of reforming; an attempt to transform the reform process into the inner one that will evolve like a chain reaction. The article deals with the very principles of the Beijing Consensus and provides the criticism of some of them. The following principles are among them: «changes, newness and innovations», which are complemented by a focus on equality, the desire to apply the asymmetrical power in relations with hegemonic states, to develop good neighbor relations with the largest possible number of countries, but, above all, with the nearest neighbors, and etc.