East Asia [[electronic resource] ] : developments and challenges / / Yongnian Zheng, Liang Fook Lye

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464802203321
• Autore: Zheng Yongnian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific Pub., c2013
• ISBN: 1-283-85087-7; 981-4407-83-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Collana: Series on contemporary China ; ; vol. 32
• Altri autori (Persone): LyeLiang Fook
• Disciplina: 330.951061
• Soggetti: Economic development - East Asia; Electronic books.; East Asia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements; Contents; 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 CHANGERISKS 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 2011Chapter 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 CARDIMPORTANT 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 ChinaTAIWAN'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?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 tak