Chinese Middle Class Attitudes Towards International Affairs: Nascent Liberalization?

Examines the attitudes of Beijing, China's middle class towards free trade, international institutions, military spending, the U.S. and nationalism. Growth in the interest in the preferences of an emerging middle class in the country towards domestic reform; Uncertainty on the possible effect of the middle class on government policy; Implication of the growing role of entrepreneurs in policy-making; Findings that the middle class exhibits a greater level of nascent liberalism than poorer income groups;