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Stumbling giant : the threats to China's future / Timothy Beardson.

By: Beardson, Timothy.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2013Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-493) and index.Description: x, 517 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300165425 (hbk.); 0300165420 (hbk.).Other title: Threats to China's future.Subject(s): China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- | China -- Politics and government -- 21st century | China -- Foreign relations -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 330.951
Contents:
Making of today's China -- The broken economic model -- The elusive knowledge economy -- Finance -- Social welfare: missing umbrella -- The environment -- Threats to social stability -- Threats to civil stability -- Identity: future of state and party -- America and China: common interests, mutual antagonisms -- Great power relationships -- Central Asia -- Undeclared war in the fourth dimension? -- Nervous neighbors -- China in the world -- Outcomes.
Summary: Brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. A first-hand look at its historic achievements while tempering predictions of its imminent hegemony.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-493) and index.

Making of today's China -- The broken economic model -- The elusive knowledge economy -- Finance -- Social welfare: missing umbrella -- The environment -- Threats to social stability -- Threats to civil stability -- Identity: future of state and party -- America and China: common interests, mutual antagonisms -- Great power relationships -- Central Asia -- Undeclared war in the fourth dimension? -- Nervous neighbors -- China in the world -- Outcomes.

Brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. A first-hand look at its historic achievements while tempering predictions of its imminent hegemony.

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