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The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy. Orlik games out what will happen if the bubble that never pops finally does. The magnitude of the shock to China and the world would be tremendous. For those in the West nervously watching China's rise as a geopolitical challenger, the alternative could be even less palatable.

An economic and military superpower with twenty percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to "lead in the reform of the global governance system" suggest that he has just such an ambition. But how does he plan to realize it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world? In this compelling book, Elizabeth Economy reveals China's ambitious new strategy to reclaim the country's past glory and reshape the geostrategic landscape in dramatic new ways.

China's Quest for Military Supremacy provides a broad and accessible exploration of Chinese military power, including relations between the Chinese Communist Party and its army, the strategic worldview of Chinese leaders, military strategy and resourcing, conventional and nuclear modernization, military diplomacy and coercion, preparations for war, and the People's Liberation Army's emerging global role.

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America.

From a former President of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century “Mahbubani has written an excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will the...

In China and the World, one of the world's leading China specialists, David Shambaugh, has assembled 15 leading international authorities on China to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly assessment of China's foreign relations and roles in international affairs.

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China's dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it.

Is economic—or broader—conflict, well beyond the trade and technology war that has already erupted, inevitable between the world’s two superpowers? Will their clash produce a new economic leadership vacuum akin to the 1930s, when Great Britain was unable to play its traditional leadership role and a rising United States was unwilling to step in to save the global order?

So what’s it really like to be Black in China? Do police racially profile you? Can you raise a family here? Do Chinese people really point at you, smile and still say Obama!? No, yes and more often than you’d think. With 7yrs of experience, join Etriiip as he interviews black people as they talk about what it’s like to be black in China, before, after and during covid. We talk about everything, from dating, to buying property, to learning the language and why it’s important.

Xi Jinping’s reforms are designed to produce a corruption-free, politically cohesive, and economically powerful one-party state with global reach: a Singapore on steroids. But there is no guarantee the reforms will be as transformative as the Chinese leader hopes.

"Wanted in China: More Male Teachers, to Make Boys Men" is from the Culture (Arts) section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Paul Ryden.

As Xi begins his second five-year term as CCP general secretary and (soon) president.

"Steinway's Grand Ambitions in China" is from the July 08, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"China Sentences Hu Shigen, Democracy Advocate, to 7 Years in Prison" is from the August 03, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"China Sentences Man to Death for Espionage, Saying He Sold Secrets" is from the April 19, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"China's Tech-Savvy, Burned-Out and Spiritually Adrift, Turn to Buddhism" is from the September 07, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"China Censors WeChat Rumors, including the One about Robots Taking Over" is from the June 24, 2016 Tech section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"China Faces a Surge in Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds" is from the August 15, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Hoping to Work in China? If You're a Class C Foreigner, It May Be Tough" is from the September 21, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Didi Kirsten Tatlow and narrated by Kristi Burns.