EAST ASIA : DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES.
Title:
EAST ASIA : DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES.
Author:
Zheng, Yongnian.
ISBN:
9789814407830
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Series:
SERIES ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA ; v.32
SERIES ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction East Asia: Developments and Challenges -- FOREWORD -- OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS -- Chapter 2 China's Politics: Maintaining Status Quo and Preparing for Leadership Succession -- AN ALMIGHTY GOVERNMENT VERSUS A MORE PLURALISTIC SOCIETY -- IN PREPARATION OF THE 18TH PARTY CONGRESS -- CCP'S HEADACHE: AN INCREASINGLY DISGRUNTLED SOCIETY -- CONTINUING ETHNIC TENSIONS -- IDEOLOGICAL DEBATES AMONG INTELLECTUAL GROUPS -- LOOKING AHEAD TO CHINESE POLITICS -- Chapter 3 China's Economy: Moderate Slowdown, Still Weaker Growth Prospects for 2012 -- THE GROWTH PATTERN STARTING TO CHANGE -- RISKS AND CHALLENGES FOR 2012 -- Inflation -- Property bubble -- Public debt -- Renminbi exchange rate -- Chapter 4 China's Foreign Policy: Coping with Shifting Geopolitics and Maintaining Stable External Relations -- CHINA-US RELATIONS: COMPETITION AMID COOPERATION -- CHINA AS "CUDDLY PANDA" TO THE EU -- CHINA-JAPAN AND CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS: MENDING FENCES AND FRAYING TIES -- CHINA-ASEAN RELATIONS: RESPONDING TO CONCERNS AND EMPHASISING COOPERATION -- CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS: MAKING STEADY PROGRESS -- CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY IN 2012 AND BEYOND -- A CHRONOLOGY OF SELECTED KEY EVENTS IN CHINA'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN 2011 -- Chapter 5 Japan's Politics: Under the Shadow of the Triple Disasters -- 2011: A MOST HORRIBLE YEAR -- NO "CREATIVE DESTRUCTION"7 OF JAPAN'S "NUCLEAR VILLAGE"? -- JAPANESE POLITICS: "CREATIVE DESTRUCTION"?16 -- UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS: 2011-2012 -- FOREIGN POLICY: 2011-12 -- EPILOGUE: 2011-12 -- Chapter 6 The Korean Peninsula Faces Uncertainties and Challenges -- RISING TENSIONS ON THE PENINSULA -- CHINA'S BALANCING ACT -- UNCERTAINTIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE YEARS AHEAD -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 7 Taiwan's 2012 Presidential and Legislative Elections.
MA'S STABILITY CARD DEFEATS TSAI'S SOCIAL JUSTICE CARD -- IMPORTANT BACKGROUND TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS -- General context -- Economic context: economic uncertainty and weak recovery, but better economic prospects with the Mainland -- Political context: DPP's revival in local elections -- Social context: rising Taiwanese nationalism -- International context: tension and cooperation between China and the United States -- CAMPAIGNS AND PLATFORMS -- Platforms of the three candidates -- Major campaign events and fluctuating popular support -- POST-ELECTION CHALLENGES FOR MA AND THE DPP -- Chapter 8 Taiwan's Economy: Unspectacular Growth and Further Dependence on China -- TAIWAN'S ECONOMY IN 2011: WEAKER EXPORTS BUT CONSUMPTION REMAINS STRONG -- ECONOMIC RELATIONS ACROSS THE STRAIT INTENSIFY -- ECFA AND TAIWAN'S GROWING DEPENDENCE ON CHINA -- CHALLENGES FOR TAIWAN'S FUTURE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- Challenges to exports -- Challenges to domestic consumption -- Challenge to develop service-driven economy -- Chapter 9 US-Taiwan Relations under Ma Ying-Jeou -- THE 2012 ELECTION AND CHALLENGES TO US-TAIWAN RELATIONS -- WARMING-UP AFTER MA TOOK OFFICE IN 2008 -- MA'S SECOND TERM OF PRESIDENCY-WHERE TO GO FROM HERE? -- Importation of US beef -- Future US arms sales -- US' TAIWAN POLICY: CHANGES EXPECTED? -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 10 Fifteen Years After Hong Kong's Handover: Is this City Dying? -- SLOW BOILING THE FROG -- A LAME DUCK GOVERNMENT -- POLICY U-TURNS: ORIGINS, PROCESS AND OUTCOMES -- SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND PRESSURES -- POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS: SHIFTING LEFT OR RIGHT? -- 2012 AND BEYOND: CHALLENGES AHEAD -- Index.
Abstract:
The aim of the book is to provide readers with an understanding of the important and emerging political, economic and social trends and challenges in East Asia in the coming years.There is urgency to conduct such a review of the state of East Asian affairs as the international and regional environments seemed to be headed towards greater uncertainty. At the international level, the European Union (EU) continues to grapple with its debt crisis with no clear resolution in sight. On the other side of the Atlantic, the US is gearing up for its presidential and congressional elections that will take place towards the end of 2012. The outcome of these elections would have implications for America's relations with countries in East Asia, particularly China. Already, in the run-up to these elections, potential candidates have whipped up anti-China sentiments or even called for tough anti-China measures to appeal their respective constituencies.More significantly, with the relative decline of the US and EU, increasing doubts have been raised concerning the values and beliefs that have undergird the US and individual European countries' political system and institutions since World War Two. China's current stellar economic growth in the midst of the sputtering performance of the US and the EU economies have lent increasing legitimacy to the attractiveness of China's model that combines strong authoritarian leadership with the vibrancy of a market economy. Managing a rising China and a declining US and the EU will have an impact, whether big or small, on the countries in Asia.Also, in East Asia, a number of countries have either undergone or are going to undergo major elections that have elected or will elect a new leadership to take over the helm, with possible implications for policy adjustments or possibly even policy changes in these countries. China is
gearing up for its crucial leadership transition at the 18th Party Congress, while Taiwan has held its presidential election; Hong Kong has elected its Chief Executive and will hold the Legislative Council elections, while the two "Koreas" will be adjusting to the post-Kim Jong-il uncertainty. Japan, too is still trying to recover from the triple disasters (tsunami, earthquakes and the radioactivity fallout) with the current Noda administration still trying to figure a way out to revitalize the Japanese economy.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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