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Is China Unstable
Title: Is China Unstable
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 2215 | Pages: 9.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Is China Unstable
Is China Unstable?
Foreign Policy Research Institute Wire, July 1999
By Minxin Pei
Western attitudes toward China tend to oscillate between two extremes, often with confusing
rapidity. Not too long ago China was widely portrayed as an emerging military and economic
threat to the West. Its total economic output was projected to surpass that of the United States in
two decades. Its military modernization was expected to provide China the capability to project
its power far …showed first 75 words of 2215 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2215 total…May 1998. Third, failure to reform will
cause rising division within the current moderate-conservative ruling coalition as the more liberal
elements become disenchanted and frustrated with the slow pace of reform. A split within the
elite has led to political instability before, and could easily do so again.
Indeed, although China is unlikely to become another Indonesia today, it is very likely to become
one in ten years' time if its leaders are lulled into complacency.
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