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The writing on the wall : China and the west in the 21st century / Will Hutton.

By: Publication details: London, England : Little, Brown., 2007.Description: xii, 436 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780349118826 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • China and the West in the 21st century
  • China and the West in the Twenty-first century
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC427.95 H979 2007 E183.8.C5 H8615
Contents:
The last great powers -- Pride and fall -- Mao's bequest -- The odd couple : communism and capitalism -- The state they're in -- The economic impossibility of the halfway house -- The democratic graces -- The soft infrastructure of capitalism -- Of war and peace -- It's the enlightenment, stupid -- Born in the USA.
Summary: The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st. century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of dauntig challenges from within that could well derail its rise and, iet turn, deliver a crippling shock to the global economy. Britain, Europe and the United States must recognise that they have a vital stake in assuring that collapse does not happen.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[400]-424) and index.

The last great powers -- Pride and fall -- Mao's bequest -- The odd couple : communism and capitalism -- The state they're in -- The economic impossibility of the halfway house -- The democratic graces -- The soft infrastructure of capitalism -- Of war and peace -- It's the enlightenment, stupid -- Born in the USA.

The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st. century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of dauntig challenges from within that could well derail its rise and, iet turn, deliver a crippling shock to the global economy. Britain, Europe and the United States must recognise that they have a vital stake in assuring that collapse does not happen.

Previous editions were published with a different subtitle "why we must embrace China as a partner or face it as an enemy".

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