The government wanted to do more than just equitably divide up wealth; instead, it started focusing on creating economic growth. ... I will focus on the short-term effects of the change in the GDP per capita growth rates between 1980 and 1999. ... Although the current population is around 1.3 billion, it is estimated that the "current reductions in Chinese fertility have already reduced world population growth by 250 million" (Lee 11). ... China's current view on managing population continued to focus on aligning costs and modernization. In 1995, China's government released a W...

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For many years, China remained where it was, focusing more on its internal problems and economic reform within its own country; therefore, China was not worrying about what was going on in the rest of the world. ... Be it from the fact that China is still considered a Communist country or that almost every country in one way or another is currently in China's debt financially, some people do not put much faith into China. As Ai Zhong-Guo, a writer for AsiaPacificDefenceReporter.com, explains the precipitous edge that China currently stands on in terms with the rest of the world, "Internat...

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Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs focuses on establishing and maintaining beneficial U.S.... For the past forty years, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Japan have been fighting over a territory dispute for five uninhabited islands and three rocks in the East China Sea, of which Japan currently has "administrative control". ... Currently, Japanese and Chinese residents are banned from landing on the Senkakus or exploring the disputed waters around the islands. ... The United States is inextricably involved in th...

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This research paper will focus on the political direction of China based on the urban Chinese middle class and the economic reforms Deng Xiaoping introduced during the 1970s. ... Political Background Current records show that the first form of government in China was of dynastic rule, starting with the Shang dynasty of 1700 BC. ... Junju implies that China is still changing as a society and makes clear that the methods being used today are new and only time will tell whether the model being currently used will continue to be effective. ...

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POLITICAL CLIMATE The current political system in China is a one party system, Communist Party of China that won the "new democratic revolution" in 1949 and subsequently founded The People's Republic of China. ...

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With just $30 in his pocket and not being able to speak a word of English he enrolled in the aforementioned Parsons School of Design where he initially focused on painting.(2)(8) However, he soon turned to sculpture with his inspiration coming from French artist Marcel Duchamp and German sculptor Joseph Beuys. ... It was because of this shutdown that he turned his focus to Twitter where he claims to be online at least eight hours a day resulting in endless re-tweets across the internet and also posts to Instagram.(1) On April 3, 2012 exactly one year after he was detained by Chinese officials,...

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Further, I will introduce the major theoretical approaches in international relations to examine the affairs between the two countries, which include, liberalism, social constructivism, and realism, all of which provide contrasting and somewhat overlapping views; as a result of, the different aspects of detail each theory focuses on. ... With the Afghanistan war coming to and end and the official closure of the Iraq war, U.S. president Barrack Obama has focused his national security team to the Asia-Pacific region in efforts to deal with the rise of China as a major global entity, which theref...

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The projected population of China is mainly focused on its One family One Child Policy. ... Many of the nations that are having developing economies are currently having resources consumption that are faster than the regeneration of resources, where China is one of a good example for these nations (Hinrichsen, 2000; Robey, 2000). ...

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In the current challenging economic environment, our work is a critical reminder of the importance of sound structural economic fundamentals for sustained growth. ... Understanding the factors behind this process has occupied the minds of economists for hundreds of years, engendering theories ranging from Adam Smith's focus on specialization and the division of labor to neoclassical economists' emphasis on investment in physical capital and infrastructure, and, more recently, to interest in other mechanisms such as education and training, technological progress, macroeconomic stabili...

• Word Count: 4162
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This paper will attempt to predict whether investors will move out of China and into other developing countries as `well as predicting the result from the following aspects: infrastructure of the country, business environment, and currency values; but the main focus will be on labor issues.  ... Their total current export value is still far behind from China's, but they have some advantages that China is beginning to lose; namely cheaper labor and a cheaper currency. ...

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One can describe with explicit granularity the current state of legal development in China, but as soon as something is written, events move on. ... This is not to denigrate efforts by my colleagues over the past two decades; there have been brilliant contributions and the literature grows richer by the day.1 But for me, describing the roots and the process of change became my focus. ... While there is a certain charm to the Chinese Communist Party's current judgment of Chairman Mao as "70% good and 30% bad; it underscores the enormous changes wrought in only recent years. ... The fo...

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China has been the scenario of political, social and economic turmoil during the past decade. The handover of Hong Kong to China on June 1997, after over a century and a half of British colonial rule, as well as China's recent accession to the World Trade Organization are milestones in our era. They have also been subject of much polemic and controversy; authors and experts from multiple disciplines have rushed to make pessimistic predictions. The transition proved to be a smooth one (Tang, 1999), against all predictions; now, the question is whether the WTO membership will bring any surp...

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Currently, there are numerous possibilities of care, a variety of products and cosmetic treatments becoming more sophisticated which help us have a beautiful and healthy skin. ... Because makeup is an important aspect in advertising and because it is a way of conveying different messages about the wearer I chose to focus on various commercials, drawing upon concepts presented throughout this study, to make an image analysis. ...

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