China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities
by C. Fred Bergsten ,
Charles Freeman ,
Nicholas R. Lardy and
Derek J. Mitchell
Forthcoming • 256 pp. ISBN Hardcover 978-0-88132-417-4
China has emerged as an economic powerhouse (projected to have the
largest economy in the world in a little over a decade) and is
taking an ever-increasing role on the world stage. China’s Rise:
Challenges and Opportunities will help the United States and the
rest of the world better comprehend the facts and dynamics
underpinning China’s rise—an understanding that becomes more and
more important with each passing day. Additionally, the authors
suggest actions both China and the United States can take that will
not only maximize the opportunities for China’s constructive
integration into the international community but also help form a
domestic consensus that will provide a stable foundation for such
policies. Filled with facts for policymakers, this much anticipated
book’s narrative-driven, accessible style will appeal to the general
reader. This book is unique in that it analyzes the authoritative
data on China’s economy, foreign and domestic policy, and national
security.
The expert judgments in this book paint a picture of a China
confronting domestic challenges that are in many ways side effects
of its economic successes, while simultaneously trying to take
advantage of the foreign policy benefits of those same successes.
China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities from The China Balance
Sheet Project, a joint, multiyear project of the Center for
Strategic and International Studies and the Peterson Institute,
discusses China’s military modernization, China’s increasing soft
power influence in Asia and around the world, China’s policy toward
Taiwan, domestic political development, Beijing’s political
relations with China’s provincial and municipal authorities,
corruption and social unrest, rebalancing China’s economic growth,
the exchange rate controversy, energy and the environment,
industrial policy, trade disputes, and investment issues.
This book is part of the CSIS-IIE China Balance Sheet project. For
more information about this project, please visit
www.chinabalancesheet.org.
Contents
Chapters are provided for preview only.
Preface
Chronology of Main Events
Introduction
1. China's Challenge to the Global Economic Order
2. China Debates Its Future
3. Democracy with Chinese Characteristics? Political Reform and the
Future of the Chinese Communist Party
4. Center-Local Relations: Hu's in Charge Here?
5. Corruption in China: Crisis or Constant?
6. Sustaining Economic Growth in China
7. Energy Implications of China's Growth
8. Why Does the United States Care about Taiwan?
9. China's Military Modernization
10. China and the World
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Authors
About the Organizations
Acknowledgements
Advisory Committee