Download or read book The People s Republic of China Today written by Zhiqun Zhu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the significant progress it had achieved in the past 60 years, especially in the past 30 years since Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives in the late 1970s, China faces daunting challenges today. These challenges include, among others, a rigid political system that does not match economic vibrancy, uneven economic growth and widening income gap, a graying population, environmental degradation, potential social instability, ethnic tensions and separatist movement, poor international image, and military modernization. Based on papers originally presented at an international conference held at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative assessment of the PRC's political, economic, social, ethnic, energy, security, military, diplomatic and other developments and challenges today. Contributed by scholars and experts in political science, international relations, economics, public administration, history, mass communication, psychology, and diplomacy, the book focuses on the efforts needed by China to grow in a sustainable manner and to become a respected global power. With each chapter addressing a different and yet an inter-related issue of the PRC's development, this book aims to make a significant contribution to the understanding of key challenges the country faces today as it strives to become a global power.
Download or read book What Keeps Xi Up At Night written by Senate of the United States of America and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important report compilation contains the testimony of nine renowned experts at a hearing in February 2019 about internal and external challenges to the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping. There is a thorough examination of the issues and problems facing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its attempts to consolidate power at home and increase its influence abroad. The first panel explored the implications of President Xi and the CCP's tightening control over economic and security policy making. The second panel examined China's domestic challenges, considering China's economic weakness and financial sector risks, the risks and benefits of China's state-led economic policies, and the country's reliance on a number of key foreign technologies. The third panel assessed China's external challenges, focusing on the People's Liberation Army's shortcomings and the limits of Chinese soft, sharp, and hard power.Panel I: The Threat from Within: "Party-ification" and Internal Threats to CCP Rule * 1. Jude Blanchette, Senior Advisor and China Practice Lead, Crumpton Group * 2. Timothy Heath, Senior International Defense Researcher, RAND Corporation * 3. Andrew Wedeman, Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University * Panel II: Domestic Dilemmas: Beijing's Slowing Growth and Technological Dependency * 4. Michael Hirson, Practice Head, China and Northeast Asia, Eurasia Group * 5. Nicholas Borst, Vice President and Director of China Research, Seafarer Capital * 6. Greg Levesque, Managing Director, Pointe Bello * Panel III: Backlash from Abroad: The Limits of Beijing's Power to Shape its External Environment * 7. Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Blasko, U.S. Army (Ret.), Independent Analyst * 8. Rush Doshi, Brookings-Yale Postdoctoral Fellow * 9. Lindsey Ford, Director of Political-Security Affairs, Asia Society Policy InstituteThis year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of U.S.-China diplomatic relations. Currently, however, the relationship is strained by strategic competition and trade tensions as China seeks to reshape the international order in ways that are often at odds with U.S. interests. While it is important to acknowledge the Chinese Communist Party's effectiveness in expanding control of social, political, and economic activity, it is also important to identify and understand the implications of the regime's vulnerabilities. According to the Party, endemic corruption is the greatest internal challenge to its legitimacy. President Xi's anticorruption campaign began six years ago, but it remains unclear whether the campaign is focused on strengthening his political power or cleaning up the Party, and whether the campaign has had any real effects on reducing corruption. These are all issues that deserve closer scrutiny. Some analysts believe President Xi's consolidation of power has created a dangerous echo chamber for decision making, which could complicate U.S.-China relations during times of heightened tensions or crisis. They also directly bear on U.S. economic interests-American businesses are threatened under economic and judicial systems that put the Party first.
Download or read book Global China Internal And External Reaches written by Bryan Pak Nung Wong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades since the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, the largest and the most populist socialist state — the People's Republic of China — does not only manage to stay intact, but has also emerged as the second largest economy in the world. Moreover, its political, diplomatic, military and cultural reaches have been extended to various parts of the world. There have been many factual and fictional discussions and debates in the public domains, on China's apparent rise either as a threat or an opportunity. This book will take on these discussions and debates to provide theory-informed empirical studies regarding a few research questions: We consider that the idea and concept of “Global China” is perhaps the most viable analytical instrument to capture such increasingly complex phenomena in association with the rise of China.
Download or read book The China Challenge in the Twenty first Century written by Jian Chen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China in the Era of Xi Jinping written by Robert S. Ross and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower. In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, Asia, and Europe examine both the prospects for China's continuing rise and the emergent and unintended consequences posed by China's internal instability and international assertiveness. Contributors examine domestic challenges surrounding slowed economic growth, Xi's anti-corruption campaign, and government efforts to maintain social stability. Essays on foreign policy range from the impact of nationalist pressures on international relations to China’s heavy-handed actions in the South China Sea that challenge regional stability and US-China cooperation. The result is a comprehensive analysis of current policy trends in Xi's China and the implications of these developments for his nation, the United States, and Asia-Pacific.
Download or read book The China Nightmare written by Dan Blumenthal and published by AEI Press. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about China's grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People's Republic of China has evolved into America's most challenging strategic competitor. Its future appears increasingly dystopian. This book tells the story of how China got to this place and analyzes where it will go next and what that will mean for the future of U.S. strategy. The China Nightmare makes an extraordinarily compelling case that China's future could be dark and the free world must prepare accordingly.
Download or read book China 2049 written by David Dollar and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will China reform its economy as it aspires to become the next economic superpower? It's clear that China is the world's next economic superpower. But what isn't so clear is how China will get there by the middle of this century. It now faces tremendous challenges such as fostering innovation, dealing with ageing problem and coping with a less accommodative global environment. In this book, economists from China's leading university and America's best-known think tank offer in depth analyses of these challenges. Does China have enough talent and right policy and institutional mix to transit from input-driven to innovation-driven economy? What does ageing mean, in terms of labor supply, consumption demand and social welfare expenditure? Can China contain the environmental and climate change risks? How should the financial system be transformed in order to continuously support economic growth and keep financial risks under control? What fiscal reforms are required in order to balance between economic efficiency and social harmony? What roles should the state-owned enterprises play in the future Chinese economy? In addition, how will technological competition between the United States and China affect each country's development? Will the Chinese yuan emerge as a major reserve currency, and would this destabilize the international financial system? What will be China's role in the international economic institutions? And will the United States and other established powers accept a growing role for China and the rest of the developing world in the governance of global institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund, or will the world devolve into competing blocs? This book provides unique insights into independent analyses and policy recommendations by a group of top Chinese and American scholars. Whether China succeeds or fails in economic reform will have a large impact, not just on China's development, but also on stability and prosperity for the whole world.
Download or read book Report to Congress of the U S China Economic and Security Review Commission written by U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China s Grand Strategy written by Andrew Scobell and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and assessed how successful China might be at implementing these over the next three decades.
Download or read book Handbook of China s Governance and Domestic Politics written by Chris Ogden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides an in-depth overview of how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces. Governed by the world’s largest political party in the world’s longest-ruling Communist regime, China is undergoing a transitional period of rapid economic and social development. How this period is managed will have significant implications for the Chinese state and its population concerning China’s governance structures and economy, as well as the country’s justice, public health, education and internal/external security concerns. This transition to a modern state is not without its challenges – particularly in terms of how the Chinese state deals with diverse issues such as social inequality, corruption, separatism, increasing individualism and political reform. China’s governance and domestic politics also have possible major global consequences, especially in the context of China's continued rise within the international system. This Handbook will improve understandings of the core national dynamics of this rise and, as levels of international interdependence with China increase, can offer vital insights concerning China's domestic attributes. Gaining a better knowledge of China's internal workings can also help better appreciate the multiple and varied problems that China’s leaders will face in the coming decades. Critically, many of the core internal issues facing China also have potential external repercussions, principally in terms of rising social unrest, nationalism, environmental degradation, resource shortages and attitudes towards globalization. This book aims to cover these issues and will help readers to fully comprehend China’s ongoing contemporary global significance.
Download or read book Carnival China China In The Era Of Hu Jintao And Xi Jinping written by Kerry Brown and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Foreword by John KeaneThe era of the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao was one in which China became richer, more powerful, more prominent and more vexed. This series of essays, originally published on the Open Democracy website between 2006 and 2013, attempts to make sense of the cultural, political and economic dynamics within which China operates. They deal with internal and external matters, and cover a range of topics, from the fall out over the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo to the build-up in 2008 to the Beijing Olympics. Furnished with a comprehensive introduction which sets out an assessment of where China was heading in the first and second decades of the 21st century, the essays encompass voices from the political elite, the migrant labourers and the complex patchwork of groups, people and interests that constitute a rising China whose influence is now felt across the world. Carnival China is a celebration of the confusion, dynamism and colour of China, presented through short essays which were written at the time key events happened and which capture and analyse the country's contradictions and complexities.
Download or read book China s Great Leap written by Minky Worden and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today, China wants to engage with the outside world—while fully controlling the engagement. How will the new leaders in Beijing manage the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform it creates? China’s Great Leap will illuminate China’s recent history and outline how domestic and international pressures in the context of the Olympics could achieve human rights change. Learn about key areas for human rights reform and how the Olympics could represent a possible great leap forward for the people of China and for the world.
Download or read book The Chinese People s Republic written by and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The People s Republic of China written by Priscilla Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights conditions in the People's Republic of China (PRC) remain a central issue in U.S.-China ties. Different perceptions of human rights are an underlying source of mutual misunderstanding and mistrust. Frictions on human rights issues affect other issues in the bilateral relationship, including those related to economics and security. China's weak rule of law and restrictions on information affect U.S. companies doing business in the PRC. People-to-people exchanges, particularly educational and academic ones, are often hampered by periodic Chinese government campaigns against "Western values." For many U.S. policymakers, human rights conditions in China represent a test of the success of overall U.S. policy toward the PRC. Some analysts contend that the U.S. policy of cultivating diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties with China has failed to promote meaningful political reform, and that without fundamental progress in this area, mutual trust and cooperation in other areas will remain difficult to achieve. The U.S. government has employed an array of efforts and tactics aimed at promoting democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in China, although their effects have been felt primarily along the margins of the PRC political system. Many analysts have observed that China's leaders have become less responsive to international pressure on human rights in recent years. This book examines human rights issues in the People's Republic of China (PRC), including ongoing rights abuses, and legal developments.
Download or read book Affective Communities in World Politics written by Emma Hutchison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic examination of emotions and world politics, showing how emotions underpin political agency and collective action after trauma.
Download or read book The People s Republic of China written by International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Issues paper reviews China’s progress along various dimensions of rebalancing. External rebalancing has advanced well, while progress on internal rebalancing has been mixed—substantial on the supply side, moderate on the demand side, and limited on credit dependence. Rebalancing on the environment and inclusiveness has lagged. The high national rate of saving is expected to fall owing to demographic change and a stronger social safety net. The consumption ratio is expected to increase with a rising labor income share and less household saving. Supply-side rebalancing from industry to services is expected to advance further, helping reduce the carbon intensity of output and promote income equality.
Download or read book India and China in the Emerging Dynamics of East Asia written by G. V. C. Naidu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though considerable research literature is now available on China–India relations, most of it still follows a conventional narrative, viewing the relationship through the narrow conflictual prism limited to South Asia than in the new, larger perspective, especially in the context of emerging East Asian dynamics. This book offers comprehensive analyses of some of these issues in papers addressing two broad themes. One, significant trends in the relationship between China and India on a range of issues, including economic development models, their military strategies, and the boundary dispute; and two, how others are responding to the rise of India and China and their impact on East Asia. Together, the chapters constitute a comprehensive study on both China–India relations and their concurrent rise, including a variety of perspectives and methodologies. Written by some of the top experts on the subject from India, China, Japan, and Taiwan and covering a broad range of issues, the book will generate considerable interest in understanding this relatively neglected dimension of today’s East Asia.
