The future of China : the challenges of its Asian neighbors / Sterling Kerr, PhD
- Author:
- Kerr, Sterling
- Published:
- Kingston, NY : Educator's International Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2014
- Physical Description:
- xix, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Corruption, Favoritism, and Money Flight -- Military Anti-Corruption Campaign -- Hongbao -- Moral Corruption -- Fuerdai -- Some Chinese Are Leaving the Country -- Chinese Elite Hide Money Offshore and under the Mattress -- Real-Estate Concerns -- Jing-Jin-Ji -- Banking, Debt, and Stock Market Dilemmas -- Chinese Stock Market Crash: July 2015 -- Food Obstacles -- Human Rights Problems -- Religious Freedom -- Freedom of Movement and Equality -- Rule of Law -- Freedom of the Press -- One-Child Policy -- Worrisome Population Imbalances -- Air Pollution: Dying by the Millions -- Water Pollution and the Cancer Cities -- Water Scarcity: Where Did It Go? -- Tibet Occupation -- Xinjiang, A Volatile Muslim Place -- Xinjiang Development -- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region -- Chairman Mao Zedong -- Economic Conundrums and Rebalancing -- Creating a Middle-Class Consumer -- Chinese Women Influence Domestic Growth -- Interior Yangtze River Corridor Plan -- Changing the Hukou System -- China Loans for Resources in Latin America -- Venezuela Is in Trouble -- Ecuador's Race for Infrastructure through Resources -- Paracel Islands -- Confrontation between China and Vietnam -- The Spratly Islands -- Scarborough Shoal -- Diaoyu (China) or Senkaku (Japan) Islands -- Questioning China's Quest for the Near Seas of Asia -- The Development of an Economic Asian Tiger -- The Military Predicament -- Cross-Strait Politics and the Sunflower Movement -- The Future of Taiwan -- The Pivot or Rebalance -- President Xi Jinping Wants a Strong Navy -- Is a War in the Pacific Possible? -- Is China's Military a Paper Dragon? -- Japan's Unique Agriculture -- Economic Stimulus -- Japan's Air Pollution -- Natural Disasters -- Population Crisis of Magnitude -- Military Geostrategy -- Problems and Solutions -- North Korea, Home of the Bizarre -- Kim Dynasty -- Human Rights -- Bizarre Economic Activity -- Food and Agriculture Have Difficulties -- A Quasi Caste System -- North Koreans are Learning about the Outside World -- Korean Reunification -- North Korea's Cyber Elite -- DPRK's Aggressive Violations -- South Korea, an Industrialized Democracy -- South Korea's Serious Population Dilemma -- Is a North[—]South War Imminent? A Geostrategy Approach -- Points to Consider -- India Is Besieged with Problems -- Caste System Remains -- Leprosy is Misunderstood -- Indian Infrastructure and Resources -- Environmental Concerns -- Testing Scandal -- Changing Politics -- The Kashmir State -- Indian Muslim -- Economic Developments Take Time -- India's Military -- The String of Pearls -- Disastrous Politics -- Administrative Regions, the Taliban, Kashmir, Baluchistan, and Port of Gwadar -- Baluchistan Is Becoming a Coastal Trading Center -- Sindh in the Indus Delta -- Punjab, the Breadbasket -- Mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -- Gilgit-Baltistan of the "Silk Road" -- Islamabad Capital Territory -- FATA and the Dangerous Taliban -- Pakistan Terrorism -- Despicable School Attack -- Polio Vaccination and the Taliban -- Disputed Kashmir -- Karimabad, a Village to Emulate -- Pakistan at the Crossroads -- President Xi Jinping is Consolidating His Power -- Changing Economy -- New World Order -- The One Belt and One Road Initiative -- Complications -- South China Sea Dialogue for Perplexing Times -- Chapter 2 The Island of China: A Physical Study -- Chapter 3 Conundrums Facing China's Growth -- Chapter 4 Astounding Environmental Problems -- Chapter 5 Buffer Zones[—]How They Protect China -- Chapter 6 China's Disastrous Transition and Reform Period -- Chapter 7 Hong Kong -- Chapter 8 Macau -- Chapter 9 China's Modern Economic Period -- Chapter 10 China's Race for Resources; A Chinese Hegemony -- Chapter 11 Disputed Islands[—]Forebodings of Conflict -- Chapter 12 Taiwan: The Wayward 23rd Province -- Chapter 13 Geopolitics and Military Prospective[—]the "Pivot" -- Chapter 14 Japan, the Warrior, is Coming Back -- Chapter 15 Korean Peninsula, a Region of Conflict -- Chapter 16 Indian Subcontinent -- Chapter 17 Pakistan: A Muslim Nation in Conflict -- Chapter 18 China's Future: Comments, Opinions, and Conclusion -- Annotated Bibliography.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 1891928422 (paperback)
9781891928420 (paperback)
9781891928499
189192849X - Note:
- AN AP PLUS! BOOK. INCL. ONLINE RESOURCES.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
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