China The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower

By Institute for International Economics and Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 2006

Foreign Affairs: "An excellent study of the outlook for Chinese national development and the likely future configurations of East Asian relations."

For centuries, China has proven difficult for Americans to understand. Today, however, China is becoming one of the most powerful countries in the world. As the 21st century unfurls, the stakes have never been higher for getting US policy toward China right.

Put simply, the US-China relationship is too big to disregard and too critical to misread.

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Book Description:

The direction that China and US-China relations take will define the strategic future of the world for years to come. No relationship matters more—for better or for worse—in resolving the enduring challenges of our time: maintaining stability among great powers, sustaining global economic growth, stemming dangerous weapons proliferation, countering terrorism, and confronting new transnational threats of infectious disease, environmental degradation, international crime, and failing states. And for the United States in particular, a rising China has an increasingly important impact on American prosperity and security, calling for some clear-eyed thinking and tough economic, political, and security choices.

Amazon.com: C. Fred Bergsten, Bates Gill, Nicholas R. Lardy and Derek Mitchell are the principal authors of this investigative analysis, full of new information and perspectives on China, the result of a year-long task force jointly sponsored by CSIS and IIE, to which distinguished China experts have contributed. It is accessible, narrative-driven, filled with facts, but written for the general reader. The expert judgments presented in China: The Balance Sheet will inform policymakers in Washington, scholars and the business community for years to come.

Book Contents:

Preface

1. Summary and Overview: Meeting the China Challenge (PDF)

2. China's Domestic Economy: Continued Growth or Collapse?

3. China's Domestic Transformation: Democratization or Disorder?

4. China in the World Economy: Opportunity or Threat?

5. China's Foreign and Security Policy: Partner or Rival?

6. Conclusion: Toward a New United States–China Relationship

Notes

Authors (PDF)

Organizations (PDF)

Acknowledgements

Advisory Committee

Index

About the Author:

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a nonprofit, bipartisan public policy organization established in 1962 to provide strategic insights and practical policy solutions to decision makers concerned with global security.

The Institute for International Economics (IIE), founded in 1981, is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution committed to providing timely, objective analysis and concrete solutions to key international economic problems. IIE has been called "the most influential think tank on the planet."

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