The coming collapse of China

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"a trenchant examination of contemporary China, written with verve and passion. Gordon Chang has taken a considerable risk, personally and professionally, to speak out and counter the dangerous overconfidence voiced by many Chinese officials and by Western business, intended to brush aside the stability of the current government." — Jasper Becker, author of The Chinese
The collapse of China is unthinkable. The consequences for its people—and for the people of the world—could be catastrophic. Three times larger than the United States, China has an economy that many predict will blossom into the world's biggest by 2010. The country may be America's great-
iest rival, but each of us, from diplomat to businessman to ordinary consumer, has a vital interest in China's stability.
The People's Republic, however, is failing. The government is corrupt and weak, the economy stalling, and the social fabric fraying in both countryside and city. As at so many times in the past, the Chinese... Tovább

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"a trenchant examination of contemporary China, written with verve and passion. Gordon Chang has taken a considerable risk, personally and professionally, to speak out and counter the dangerous overconfidence voiced by many Chinese officials and by Western business, intended to brush aside the stability of the current government." — Jasper Becker, author of The Chinese
The collapse of China is unthinkable. The consequences for its people—and for the people of the world—could be catastrophic. Three times larger than the United States, China has an economy that many predict will blossom into the world's biggest by 2010. The country may be America's great-
iest rival, but each of us, from diplomat to businessman to ordinary consumer, has a vital interest in China's stability.
The People's Republic, however, is failing. The government is corrupt and weak, the economy stalling, and the social fabric fraying in both countryside and city. As at so many times in the past, the Chinese people want change. Soon they will demand it.
With its impending World Trade Organization membership, China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition for the first time, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will trigger government collapse. So why don't Americans know about this? Will we be as taken by surprise at China's fall as we were at Soviet Russia's? Our politicians and professors continue to catalog the many problems confronting Chinese leaders, yet ignore those problems' grave implications.
The Coming Collapse of China does not flinch. It states what almost no one will say out loud: The end of the modern Chinese state is near. The People's Republic has five years, perhaps ten, before it falls. This book tells why. Vissza