Expert says China can help tackle global issues

LONDON - China has offered key components of a global strategy for tackling global challenges as the world enters a new era of so-called Globalization 4.0, said a leading British expert.

"The new stage is a transformation of the world. It is a clash between an older global age and a coming, already come, digital age," said Martin Albrow, a renowned sociologist and a pioneer of the theory of globalization.

"That's the real transformation which is going on at the moment, and which the world has not yet been able to manage because it can't see it clearly enough," said Albrow, before the start of an annual gathering of world leaders and business elites in the Swiss resort of Davos.