China's fault lines

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http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1686/
[All chapters available online]

The focus of this research is the potential adversities or fault lines
(the terms are used synonymously) facing China's economy and affecting its
prospects for sustaining high growth through the coming decade. Thus, we
deliberately concentrate on what might go seriously awry in the economy
and, in the process, slow or even reverse China's double-digit growth
rates in the 1980s and high single-digit growth in the 1990s and the early
part of the 21st century. This book is the product of a project jointly
sponsored by the Office of Net Assessment in the Department of Defense and
the Smith Richardson Foundation. Their sponsorship was based on a mutual
understanding that their joint support would enable the work to be
expanded beyond what would have been possible if funding were confined to
one sponsor alone. The project was implemented through RAND's National
Defense Research Institute (NDRI), a federally funded research and
development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense,
the Joint Staff, the unified commands, and the defense agencies. The book
should be of interest and use to those in the policy community and the
academic community concerned with China and with the economic and security
environment in the Asia-Pacific region.