China is one of the few countries to show positive growth in 2020 and even seems to have emerged stronger from the pandemic. As China implements its 14th Five-Year Plan, the question arises as to how China has managed to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis so quickly, as well as what the implications for the rest of the world might be. A colossus with feet of clay or a real power? The fact remains that today, the time when China was reduced to the image of the world's factory for consumer goods seems long gone, to the point that its desire to take a dominant position in the world is becoming stronger every day.
