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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Beardson, Timothy.     Subjects     China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-     China -- Politics and government -- 21st century.     China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Beardson, Timothy.       by title:      Stumbling giant : th...         MARC Display

Stumbling giant : the threats to China's future / Timothy Beardson. by Beardson, Timothy. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2013. Subjects China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-   China -- Politics and government -- 21st century.   China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780300165425 (cl : alk. paper) 0300165420 (cl : alk. paper) Description:  x, 517 pages ; 25 cm 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. Threats to China come from many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sheer weight these problems will thwart the nation's ambition to take over as the world's "Number 1 power". Drawing on extensive research and experience living and working in Asia over the last 35 years, the author spells out the details of China's situation: an inexorable demographic future of remorseless aging, extreme gender disparity, a shrinking labour force, and even a falling population. Also, the nation faces social instability, a devastated environment, a low-tech economy with inadequate innovation, the absence of an effective welfare safety net, an ossified governance structure, and radical Islam lurking at the borders. Beardson's nuanced, first-hand look at China acknowledges its historic achievements while tempering predictions of its imminent hegemony with a no-nonsense dose of reality." -- Publisher's description.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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