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China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America
China Shakes the World A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future and the Challenge for America Author:James Kynge "Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. Napoleons words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from Chinas awakening reverberate across the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as Chinas ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and foodand its export of goods, work... more »ers, and investmentsdrastically reshapes world trade and politics. Through dramatic stories of entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers and store clerks, Kynge describes the breakneck rise of China, the extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both. He details the variety of Chinas deep and systemic weaknessesfraud and corruption, environmental crises, faltering government institutions, an aging populationthat threaten even greater global disruptions. As Thomas Friedman did in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Kynge gives us a lucid and necessary account of a far-reaching phenomenon.« less