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With all that you have learned from these recent reports about China’s current internal problems, do you think that its world power status should be reconsidered? Can China successfully overcome these difficulties to achieve such status on the world stage? Create a blog entry and post a comment to at least one fellow member student’s blog entry.
China’s current internal problems, will affect its overall stability as a world power. If China can overcome its lack of innovation, private property laws, work for unskilled labor and economic hurdles it may limit social unrest. Stresses on the environment due to building growth, limited imports, income gaps, and corruption economically, create barriers to China maintaining its status as a world power. Without true political reform, corruption in local government will continue to cause income gaps for rural workers and increase social inequalities. It is social unrest, and unchecked power that provides for lack of income and under performing economics. Private sector and semi private sector is struggling to offset the state run businesses to boost the economy. Without regulations 9% growth has been achievable, but at the cost of rural poor and urban unemployed. In my opinion, without structured regulations in wage, employment, environment, health care, and business sustainability social unrest will unravel the Chinese growth. China can overcome these difficulties by enacting regulations in phases, therefore offsetting the costs to market economy business and bring stable growth to China. With stable growth, and the ability to allow for more imports from foreign companies, China would then fulfill its full potential as a world power.
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I think China can survive and thrive in the world market, but I'm not so sure about the one party communist system. China, under one party rule has been reactionary and quick to move in different directions. There is not enough internal challenges, from an opposition party or the pressures of a free press. The party has been allowed total control. With the global market economy, the party's position has weakened. The people are no longer reliant on the government for EVERYTHING and instead the government who they came to trust has turned their back on them. Social unrest can bring down the party, but I think China can survive and thrive beyond the party.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem with China trying to go beyond the party is deciding what to do once they've gotten to that point. One point that Shirk made was the difference in political preference between the various "interest groups" in China. You have the farmers on one hand who want democratization to secure the rights to their farm land because right now, they technically don't have any. Then you have the city dwellers who don't want democracy because they fear the outcome of the uneducated masses concerning themselves with topics as sensitive as politics. Then you have the students who have studied Neo-authoritarianism in other cultures to give China a possible guide to go by in the future, fearing that democracy directly following an economic boom may be too much for the masses to handle.
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