Stumbling Giant. The Threats to China's Future. - BEARDSON, TIMOTHY
the threats to China's future
KORTE INHOUD
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 the policy responses. Threats to China come on many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sheer weight these problems will thwart any ambition to become the world’s “Number One power.” Drawing on extensive research and experience living and working in Asia over the last 35 years, the author spells out China’s situation: an inexorable demographic future of a shrinking labor force, relentless aging, extreme gender disparity, and even a falling population. Also, the nation faces social instability, a devastated environment, a predominantly 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 ...
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2013Uitgever: Yale University Press528 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0300165420ISBN-13: 9780300165425Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's red paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, thick 8vo: x, 518pp., tables, chapternotes & references, abbreviations, bibliography,, index, tabel of contents. Very fine copy. New Haven-London, Yale University Press. 2013 [Auteur: BEARDSON, TIMOTHY] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Stumbling Giant. The Threats to China's Future.]
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[Auteur: Beardson, Timothy] [Pagina's: 517] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Yale University Press] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Stumbling Giant: The Threats to China's Future]
