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How far is China willing to go in order to strengthen international economic governance? How central to China’s own interests is global economic governance? The Chinese experts whom we consider in this issue of China Analysis seem to take a fairly short view. The thinking going on in China illustrates why, at the conclusion of the recent EU-China summit in Nanjing, premier Wen Jiabao remained publicly unyielding on the issue of monetary re-evaluation, choosing instead to lambast the “protectionism of some states” in Europe.