The Future of China

This timely and thought provoking second edition examines the future of China and its interrelationships with Asian neighbors including Japan, the Koreas, Taiwan, India and Pakistan. It will provoke readers to cogitate not only how China became a magnificent success more rapidly than any country in the world but its recent slowdown and rebalancing. 

You will find yourself contemplating how a country of high speed “bullet” trains and magnificent cities could have such a plethora of mind-boggling crisis-level problems. The Middle Kingdom is faced with intriguing concerns: The dichotomy of haves and have not’s with millions of poor who earn just over $ 1,000 a year while the mega rich Red Nobility are hiding billions overseas; air and water pollution along with water scarcity is possibly the worst in the world; the aging population is beginning to affect the work force; banking and careless lending concern authorities worldwide. 

As the military becomes more powerful and experienced will Beijing go to war with the United States? What has caused Beijing’s relationship with North Korea to wane and how would it react if the volatile belligerent north invaded the industrial south? How are Pakistan and China dealing with the militant Muslim population? Will Prime Minister Modi be able to improve Indian’s lagging economy and will China assist? Is China developing a “New World Order” that includes a Russian economic alliance potentially revising Asian-Pacific geopolitics?  Will Xi with his nascent dictatorial powers be able to bring the Communist Party back in line with anti-corruption campaigns and reforms or is the Party in jeopardy?