China Shakes the World

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"LET CHINA SLEEP, FOR WHEN SHE WAKES, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shaices the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food — and its export of goods, workers, and investments — drastically reshape world trade and politics, i Delving beyond mere recitation of by-
j now-familiar statistics, Kynge's on-the-
\ ground reporting provides alternative
; explanations for China's explosive trans-
' formation, revealing many of the usual
I reasons given for its growth to be myths.
Most important for the future, he details • China's deep, systemic weaknesses —
rampant fraud, crippling environmental crises, a corrupt banking system, falter-] ing government institutions, a rapidly
i aging population — which... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"LET CHINA SLEEP, FOR WHEN SHE WAKES, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shaices the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food — and its export of goods, workers, and investments — drastically reshape world trade and politics, i Delving beyond mere recitation of by-
j now-familiar statistics, Kynge's on-the-
\ ground reporting provides alternative
; explanations for China's explosive trans-
' formation, revealing many of the usual
I reasons given for its growth to be myths.
Most important for the future, he details • China's deep, systemic weaknesses —
rampant fraud, crippling environmental crises, a corrupt banking system, falter-] ing government institutions, a rapidly
i aging population — which threaten even
greater global disruptions. And he dem-i onstrates the profound consequences of
I those weaknesses for American manufac-
turers, oil companies, banks, and ordinary consumers.
t Through dramatic stories of entrepre-
neurs and visionaries, factory workers ' and store clerks at the heart of this global
phenomenon, China Shaices tlie World explains how China's breakneck rise oc-i; curred, the extraordinary problems the
country now faces, and the consequences I of both for the twenty-first century. Vissza