China 's Economic, Military, And Political Power

As an effective leader, you must completely comprehend the scope of your unit mission to successfully complete the mission. You must also have an understanding of your units’ weakness and identify ways your enemy may exploit them to ensure a higher probability of mission success. China has assessed the United States tactics, and identified possible weaknesses in Tactics, Techniques & Procedures, and ways to exploit these weaknesses to influence curtain retaliation tactics. The matter of satellite security has been brought into question by the United States media after the display of China’s capabilities to disrupt and destroy satellites from the ground. Media outlets such as the Washington post, telegraph, and many more were quick to inform

In the beginning of a book, “What Does China Think?” by Mark Leonard, introduces the China’s rise as an exceptional and remarkable event in the history that is even considered to be more significant than 9/11 terrorism or Iraq War. Afterward, the author mentions how China affected the world within the economical perspective; for example, half of the entire world product is labeled ‘Made in China.’ Besides focusing on the scale, the author brings us into deeper inquiry about China’s rise: How China’s rise will affect the world? Will China keep rising?

“The population in China is 1,355,692,576, with a population growth of 0.44% as of 2014” (Index Mundi, 2015, p. 1). The most populous cities in China are Shanghai and Beijing (capital). The life expectancy in “China for males is 73.09 years and women 77.43 years old” (Index Mundi, 2015, p.1). Han Chinese, Zhuang are the most prominent ethnic groups. “The most practiced religions are: Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, folk religion Hindu, and Jewish” (Index Mundi, 2015, p.1). The standard language in China is Mandarin, however, “Cantonese, Shanghainese, Fuzhou, Xiang, and Hokkien-Taiwanese are a few examples of other languages spoken. “97.5 to 92.7% of men and women have a literacy rate by the age of 15, however many children stop attending school by the age of 13” (Index Mundi, 2015, pg.1).

China’s stature as a political as well as economic hegemon continues to grow well into the second decade of the 21st century. This has led many to believe that the Chinese Renminbi (which is denominated in the Yuan, and hence, referred hereafter as such) – may soon eclipse the United States Dollar (USD) as the World Reserve Currency (WRC).

China is a relatively new power, a new power that has developed faster than any other nation of its age on earth. China has grown at such a high rate because of its authoritarian government, the bureaucracy of democracy is non-existent. Take HS2 in the UK, the miles of red tape change causes mean improving transport links takes years to even get started. In China if the government wants a new railway it builds it the following day. Its this philosophy that has allowed china to grow economically at an exponential rate. Chinas economic growth is over double that of the USA’s, China is second to the USA in military spending, and geographically its position is strong.

The article chosen is an informative demonstration of how China has emerged as a leading economic power. In just a few short years China has managed to position itself as a manufacturing leader in many of the industries that are most heavily needed by the other nations throughout the world. How China has done this is a remarkable story and provides a compelling reason for choosing an article about their success as a topic for this paper. The article not only highlights China's success but also provides insight into how China is becoming a partner in the world economy much like the United States did in the 50s and 60s and how readily the rest of the world is accepting China's participation.

Known fully as the people’s republic of China, this country has improved vastly in terms of economic progress in the past decades. With 93% of its population being Han Chinese, China also has 55 other ethnic minorities. This percentage totals up to 1.37 billion people, making China the country with the largest population in the world. The population of China is rather unevenly distributed into 23 different provinces and each province is governed by a local government. China has the second highest GDP in the world of 19.24trillion USD and this figure is increasing rapidly. With over 3000 years of written history, China is also one of the oldest country in the world. During this 3000 years, China experienced imperial rule up till the last century when the last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty ended. With this long history, China also faced numerous rebellions, overthrowing of dynasties, wars and other disasters. However, its people persevered and hence also help build a prosperous country we know as China today.

In doing so, the Chinese government was able to quadruple their GDP since the 1970’s (Turner), and currently consumes 1/3 of the world’s steel, coal, and iron. While staking claim as the world’s next mono-super power, China remains neutral to any super power conflict.

China’s economy: $123 trillion, 3 times America’s by 2040 per capita income will hit $85,000, more than double the forecast for the European Union … China’s share of global GDP— 40% — will dwarf that of the United States (14%) and the EU (5%) 30 years from now,” one brief generation. China’s political system is more capitalist than America’s as China is rapidly turning into a capitalist consumer economy. China’s massive investments in education, ahead of America is resulting in the next generation

"Napoleon said of China "Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." This assumption turned out to be true, particularly these two last decades. As a matter of fact, China has undergone two restructuring processes: the industrialization and the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy since the early 1980 's. Thus, Chinese government has been implementing an economic reform to reinforce its rapid growth. China is now awake and is already a major actor of the world economy, widely open to the world. It has reduced its trade barriers and has managed to attract huge foreign direct investments thanks to which China could improve its

Since opening up its market to foreign trade and free market returns in 1979, China has been one of the fastest growing economies, with GDP growth averaging nearly 10% through 2014. China is a major global economic leader, and is the world’s largest economy (purchasing power), manufacturer, merchandise trader, and holder of foreign exchange reserves .

According to him; China is significant country which affect the other countries in terms of international trade. In this book; the power of China or rise of China ruled by communist Party is handled at this century but he is searching whether that power is sustainable or not? Jonattan Fenby analyzed the strengths and weakness of China to ask his question. China’s domestic products is restricting the other country’s ability in terms of global influence. According to him; this success cannot be sustainable because of PRC’s short run activities. Fenby have used empirical data in this book to indicate the global ranking. China seems to be globally powerful in terms of economic growth, national unity, relative stability, lack of opposition etc…However; China depended on USA in terms of economics, military spending, energy, environment, technology, education, demographics, society and culture. There is also lack of innovation and agriculture in a country. Furthermore; raw materials are supplied from other countries in china ,that is, it dependent on other countries. Some structuring systems like Infrastructure were overestimated. Moreover; there is no balanced income groups among people with inequal economic

It is the year 2056, and China has become the leading superpower in the world. With more wealth, resources, and manpower than many of the other modern countries combined, China dominates the free market and commerce. The Chinese Yuan has become worth almost as much as the American dollar. In the major cities of China, life is streamlined and fast paced. However, life has remained mostly unchanged for the Chinese farmer living out in the country.

China opened its arms’ in the late 70’s and since then has never looked back. From a centrally planned economy to market based economy has put China as a major global economy. Till recently, a command economy, China has move towards more private sector, but still majority of the macroeconomic processes are controlled by state. The country has moved to being a manufacturing hub on account of its huge low cost manpower and became an export hub by providing subsidized infrastructure (Paul,

China is the second leading global economy and represents the world’s largest economic growth in recent years.