However, while the U.S. faces major challenges, China also faces considerable obstacles in its upward economic trajectory, particularly given its low levels of personal spending, dependence upon exports and with political concerns about its human rights record and government corruption. ... In 2012, China was the world's second-largest economy, right behind the U.S. ... "The Chinese government faces numerous economic challenges, including: (a) reducing its high domestic savings rate and correspondingly low domestic demand; (b) sustaining adequate job growth for tens of millions of ...

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Between the years of 1980-1985, GNP per capita grew by about 3.2 percent a year in India and in China by an remarkable 8.3 percent a year. Rapid growth in China and India explains why more than half of the world's population lives in economies growing faster than 2 percent a year. In 1978 the economical structure of China began moving from a slow Soviet type economy to more of a market oriented system. ... China continues to lose farmable land because of erosion and various economic development. ... Government controls have been reduced on imports and foreign investment, and pri...

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Hence, socioeconomic development which includes changes in mind-sets and lifestyle choices have contributed heavily to the success of China's birth rate decline. ... Not only so, the government had to reverse its policy by the end of the 1980s. ... The Anti-natalist phase from 1966 to 1982 saw the government embarking on an "ambitious programme" of urban renewal, socioeconomic planning and extensive industrialization. ... This was seen as the 'fruits' of the wide range of incentives the government has implemented. ... Based on comparisons between various countries r...

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In China, to prevent population from growing the one-child family system has been adopted. ... However, as all the aid is concentrated in the hand of government, very often it is used directly to serve the vested interest of political leaders. ...

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The world-wide environmentalist non-government organization phenomena ( such as the World Wildlife Fund, directed by Prince Phillip ) was created top-down, with a complex web of financing, from the circles of the British oligarchy. ... The Cold War strategy was used to keep wars going, as in Korea and Vietnam, in order to keep the financial oligarchy dominated munitions makers profitable, and to ensure the recolonization of the Third World, by preventing Roosevelt's idea of large-scale economic development via collaboration between the US, Russia and China, from being implemented. ...

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Doner, Ritchie, and Slater are claiming that through these weaknesses, developing countries are pushing themselves to their limits to catch up to the superpowers or even surpass them (as in the case of China's very feasible status as a future superpower, even greater than the United States). ... South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ...

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