DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/hkt94r/china_2020_the_ne) has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "China 2020: The Next Decade for the People's Republic of China" to their offering.
This book presents eight separate essays and provides the reader with a unique perspective and objective judgement of where China will stand by the end of the current decade. It is suitable reading for foreign policy practitioners, academics and anyone interested in one of the world's fastest-developing countries. The eight essays cover the following topics: China's internal politics; China's military; China's economy; China's international image and its international relations; China's legal development and; China's western regional development plans. China 2020 assesses where these issues stand today and highlights their likely trajectory over the following decade. A unique feature of this book is that it looks in particular at the policy impact, both for China and other countries, and the most and least likely outcomes for China's development in these areas.
Key Topics Covered:
China in 2020: the leadership and the Party
- The background
- A learning-oriented Marxist party
- Intra-Party democracy
- The transition
- The posts
- Notes
China 2020: International Relations
- The current parameters of China's foreign policy
- A China that can say no but is still unhappy
- The elephant in the room: the US will always be number one
- The world beyond the US
- The two big problems: Taiwan and North Korea
- China as an international player by 2020
- International China in the coming decade - the two paths
- A Beijing model
- The key factor: what happens within
- Notes
The Chinese Economy in the Next Decade
- Forecasting China
- The Chinese state
- Politics, policy and the state
- China and the global economy
- The fi nancial sector
- Inequality and consumption
- Demography
- Urbanisation
- Conclusion
- Notes
China's military in 2020
- Introduction: robust economy
- Arms embargoes
- Combat experience
- Confi dence and change
- PLA: the armed wing of the Party
- The PLA ground forces
- The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
- The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
- The Second Artillery Corps (SAC)
- The People's Armed Police (PAP)
- Cyber warfare
- Strategic implications
- Force projection
- Defence in depth
- Policy implications
- Conclusion
- Notes
China's Environment in 2020:
- Economy
- Resource constraints
- International climate talks
- Energy and renewable power
- Waste and pollution
- Food
- Biodiversity
- Politics
China's Western Regions 2020: Their National and Global Implications:
- What are China's western regions?
- Issues raised by the western regions
- Development and Develop the West
- Economic growth and human development in the western regions
- Western regions in global perspective
- Chongqing and Chengdu - growth pole(s) for the western regions?
- Prospects to 2020 and policy implications
- Notes
China's Rule of Law:
- Chinese and foreigners
- Asian values and the law
- Development of law in China in modern history
- The constitution
- Elements of the legal system in China
- The judiciary
- The legislative system
- Law versus the state in China
- Human and civil rights
- New developments infl uencing law in China
- Conclusion
- Policy approaches
- Notes
China's soft power development by 2020:
- Soft power' in Chinese discourse
- China's tools of soft power
- Beijing's objectives
- The domestic priority
- Challenges ahead
- Weaknesses in China's soft power currency
- China's soft power in 2020
- Conclusion
- Notes
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Source: Woodhead Publishing Ltd