Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 A Entire world on Edge 17
What Is the Appropriate Context in Which to Evaluate China Nowadays? 18
China’s Self-Inflicted Crises 23
Great Leap Forward or Famine? 24
Cultural Revolution or Social Cannibalism? 26
How Has Economic Integration with the World Economic climate Modified China? 30
Is China Getting the Upcoming Superpower? 31
Investing Companion to the Environment 32
The World’s Maker 33
An Urge for food for Commodities 34
Why Does China Have “Gold Fever?” 35
What Does the Increase of Other Nations, but Specifically of China, Imply for the Present Economical Technique? 37
Promoting the China Model 38
Does China Have a Vivid and Powerful Long term? 40
What’s Actually driving the Terrific Wall? 41
Notes 44
Chapter 2 Steadiness and Legitimacy: A Chinese Crisis from Within 47
What Types of Risks and Problems Are Standard of Unstable Nations? 48
Steadiness and Instability: What Are They? 49
The Supply of China’s “Stability” 51
What Are the Characteristics and Consequences of Instability? 52
Does Balance also Necessarily mean “Legitimacy” in China? 54
Is Legitimacy of the Authorities Vital for Stability? 55
Does Communist China Have a History of Security? 56
Does China’s Beijing Product Lead to Balance and Legitimacy? 58
Notes 59
Chapter 3 The Growing Tide of Instability 61
Has China Been Affected by Western Suggestions? 64
Sources of Growing Instability in China 66
Notes 96
Chapter 4 Is China’s Financial system Sustainable? 99
The Beijing Design: The Path Forward or Cannibal Capitalism? 100
What Is the Beijing Model? 104
Is the Beijing Product Self-Sustaining? 105
Notes 141
Chapter 5: China’s Peaceful Crisis: Financial and Economic Meltdown 145
A Perception of Power 146
China’s High quality of GDP 148
A Public and Private Stimulus Time Bomb 152
Improvement vs . Financial Growth 155
How Significantly Was the Money Source Expanded in China? 156
Bursting Bubbles 157
How Underperforming Are the Assets and the Loans Fundamental Them? 159
China’s Banks Wanting for the Real Detail 161
Forex Manipulation and the Domestic Economic system 164
Will the Yuan Devaluation Be Adequate to Continue to keep the Economic system Going? 165
Inflation and Deflation Dangers 168
Foodstuff for Riots 169
Economical Endgame 172
Notes 174
Chapter 6 China’s Excessive Environmental Degradation 177
Raging Environmental Crises 178
A Historical past of Massive Problems 178
Hiding the Reality 183
Command Economies, Dehumanized Culture, and Pollution 184
Pollution, Advancement, and Democracy 188
China’s Reduce-Drop-Lose Proposition 190
China’s Air Pollution—Gasping For a Breath of Fresh Air 192
Bitter H2o: China’s Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of Poison 194
How Poor Is the H2o Air pollution Condition in China? 195
Cancer Villages and Madness 196
Why Has China’s Drinking water Pollution Gotten So Poor? 197
Lifeless Oceans 198
A Plague Upon the Land 199
China’s Dead Zones 200
The Land of Arsenic 201
Why Is Such Pollution Tolerated? 202
CCP Land Procedures Advertise Abuse 203
Getting rid of the Breadbasket 204
The Deforestation and Desertification of China 207
What Is the True Result in of Desertification? 210
Ghosts of Famines Previous 211
Notes 214
Chapter 7 Political Transition and the Breaking Issue 223
Will Xi Jinping Unify the CCP? 227
Liberalization vs . Security 231
Passing the Torch: China’s New Nationalism 232
Domestic Crises for the New Management 237
How Will the New Chinese Management
Navigate the Rough Waters In advance? 240
Hell and Significant Drinking water 244
Notes 244
Chapter 8 Empire Decrease and Complexity Concept 247
China as an Empire 248
Hong Kong 256
Taiwan 257
China’s Uighur Dilemma in Xinjiang 258
The Sandals and Saff ron Risk of Tibet 260
Panic and Greed in the New Management 262
Complexity Principle 263
Notes 270
Chapter 9 The Drop of the Purple Dragon 273
China’s War with China 275
The Breakup 279
Summary 283
Notes 284
About the Creator 285
Index 287