Fateful decisions : choices that will shape China's future
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Fateful decisions : choices that will shape China's future
(Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center)
Stanford University Press, c2020
- : [hbk.]
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
China's future will be determined by how its leaders manage its myriad interconnected challenges. In Fateful Decisions, leading experts from a wide range of disciplines eschew broad predictions of success or failure in favor of close analyses of today's most critical demographic, economic, social, political, and foreign policy challenges. They expertly outline the options and opportunity costs entailed, providing a cutting-edge analytic framework for understanding the decisions that will determine China's trajectory.
Xi Jinping has articulated ambitious goals, such as the Belt and Road Initiative and massive urbanization projects, but few priorities or policies to achieve them. These goals have thrown into relief the crises facing China as the economy slows and the population ages while the demand for and costs of education, healthcare, elder care, and other social benefits are increasing. Global ambitions and a more assertive military also compete for funding and policy priority. These challenges are compounded by the size of China's population, outdated institutions, and the reluctance of powerful elites to make reforms that might threaten their positions, prerogatives, and Communist Party legitimacy. In this volume, individual chapters provide in-depth analyses of key policies relating to these challenges. Contributors illuminate what is at stake, possible choices, and subsequent outcomes. This volume equips readers with everything they need to understand these complex developments in context.
Table of Contents
Introduction
-Thomas Fingar and Jean C. Oi
1. Xi Jinping and the Evolution of Chinese Leadership Politics
-Alice Lyman Miller
2. Grand Steerage
-Barry Naughton
3. Anticorruption Forever?
-Andrew Wedeman
4. Future of Central-Local Relations
-Jean C. Oi
5. Social Media and Governance in China
-Xueguang Zhou
6. Demographic Challenges
-Karen Eggleston
7. Can China Achieve Inclusive Urbanization?
-Mary E. Gallagher
8. Human Capital and China's Future
-Hongbin Li, James Liang, Scott Rozelle, and Binzhen Wu
9. Sources and Shapers of China's Foreign Policy
-Thomas Fingar
10. China and the Global South
-Ho-fung Hung
11. Bold Strategy or Irrational Exuberance?
-Christine Wong
12. All (High-Speed Rail) Roads Lead to China
-David M. Lampton
13. China's Military Aspirations
-Karl Eikenberry
14. China's National Trajectory
-Andrew G. Walder
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