28. Transgressing Global and Local: Environmental NGOs and China’s Overseas Investment

The social and environmental impacts of China's overseas investment have gotten increasingly heated in recent years, disparate views from inside and outside contradict each other. This chapter focuses on the relationship between the status quo of China's overseas investment and the China Model. It next examines China's economic development in the context of globalization and explores the neutral perspectives taken in reviewing overseas investment. The chapter then proposes that non-governmental environmental organizations should transgress the concept of global and local, promote the idea of sustainable development beyond individual interests of nation-states, and encourage the green transformation of China, as well as the world. Finally, it discusses China's rapid economic development and its thirst for resources. Keywords: Model; China's overseas investment; environmental NGOs; nationalism; sustainable development