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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology of Main Events -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 China's Challenge to the Global Economic Order -- The Systemic Challenge -- Global Implications -- A New Approach -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 China Debates Its Future -- Role of Policy Intellectuals -- Current Dynamics -- Reevaluation of Reform -- Debating Development -- Policy Response -- Democracy Debated -- Official Line Weighs In -- Foreign Policy: Rise of Nationalism or Peaceful Rise? -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter 3 Democracy with Chinese Characteristics? Political Reform and the Future of the Chinese Communist Party -- Evolution of China's Political Reform: Instrumental, Incremental, and Idiosyncratic -- Putting Theory into Practice -- Rhetoric Versus Reality -- Ongoing Support for the Party -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- Chapter 4 Center-Local Relations: Hu's in Charge Here? -- From Decentralization to Recentralization -- Current Factors Causing Center-Local Friction -- How Center-Local Relations Affect Key Policies (and Why the United States Should Care) -- What It Means for Hu and Wen -- Steps the Center Is Taking -- Implications for the United States and Policy Recommendations -- Chapter 5 Corruption in China: Crisis or Constant? -- Corruption Rising to a Plateau -- Threat of "Local Kleptocracies" -- Is the Party Over? -- Causes of Corruption Debated -- Combating Corruption-Is China Campaigned Out? -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- Chapter 6 Sustaining Economic Growth in China -- Sources of China's Economic Growth -- Rethinking China's Growth Strategy -- Promoting Consumption-Driven Growth -- China's Pursuit of Consumption-Driven Growth -- Glass Half Full or Half Empty? -- Chapter 7 Energy Implications of China's Growth -- Evolution of Energy Demand in China -- Investment-Led Energy Surprise -- Local and Global Implications.

Enthält Rezension von:‡‡Lardy, Nicholas R.: Markets over Mao : the rise of private Business in China. - Washington/D.C. : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2014

"The importance of the relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China has only grown since Richard Nixon's epochal visit in 1972. By the early twenty-first century, when the rise of China had become an inescapable fact, most American policy makers and experts saw bilateral ties with China as the most consequential foreign-relations priority for the United States. In recent years, even before the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S.-China relationship has rapidly deteriorated-and the whole world has felt the consequences. This book brings together leading China specialists to offer a retrospective on relations between the United States and China over the last half-century and consider what might be next. The contributors-including academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomats and government officials-analyze the relationship from a range of perspectives: political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, commercial, educational, medical, and military. They reassess American engagement with China from the late Mao years onward, covering leaders from Deng Xiaoping through Xi Jinping. The contributors highlight not only the accomplishments and hard-won successes of engagement but also the mistakes and misunderstandings, acknowledging the well-earned distrust and genuine frictions that plague the relationship today. Multidisciplinary and comprehensive, Engaging China is a vital reconsideration for a time when the stakes of U.S. policy toward China have never been higher"--

As the world evolves in increasingly unpredictable directions, one of the key determinants of the future global order will surely be the impact of China. No country and no society can escape China's reach-indeed many seek its embrace. China brings benefits to many-but it's also a problematic interlocutor for others. In China and the World, one of the world's leading China specialists David Shambaugh has assembled fifteen leading international authorities on China to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly assessment of China's foreign relations and roles in international affairs. The volume covers China's contemporary position in all regions of the world, with all major powers, and across multiple arenas of China's international interactions. It also explores the sources of China's grand strategy, how the past shapes the present, and the impact of domestic factors that shape China's external behavior. China and the World is a uniquely focused and well-organized volume that provides many insights into China's calculations and behavior, and identifies a number of challenges China will face in the future.