China futures

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This PP explores the future of the "new" China. What can go right and what can go wrong? Much in both directions!

Transcript of China futures

Page 1: China futures
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China Dream

Buddhattitude

World Is China

Country amp Folk

The New China

Donald C Menzel PhD

China Futures amp

the Chinese DreamSession 6

Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Portrait

bull Peaceful rise gentle giant actmdashTom Friedman

bull Slow motion revolutionmdashIan Johnson

bull Rogue economic superpowermdashPaul Krugman

bull Chinarsquos view--the future belongs to us

What can go right

bull Economy amp employmentbull Exports amp Consumerism in Chinabull Standard of living improves

ndash Foodndash Healthndash Materialism

bull Social harmonybull International respect

Growing Up is Hard to Do

bull The middle-income trapmdashHigh growth has been propelled by low cost labor and easy technology adoption but these disappear when countries reach middle and upper middle income levels forcing them to find new sources of growth

bull Chinese leaders are trying to deflate a real estate bubble by banning most purchases of second and third homes

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 2: China futures

The New China

Donald C Menzel PhD

China Futures amp

the Chinese DreamSession 6

Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Portrait

bull Peaceful rise gentle giant actmdashTom Friedman

bull Slow motion revolutionmdashIan Johnson

bull Rogue economic superpowermdashPaul Krugman

bull Chinarsquos view--the future belongs to us

What can go right

bull Economy amp employmentbull Exports amp Consumerism in Chinabull Standard of living improves

ndash Foodndash Healthndash Materialism

bull Social harmonybull International respect

Growing Up is Hard to Do

bull The middle-income trapmdashHigh growth has been propelled by low cost labor and easy technology adoption but these disappear when countries reach middle and upper middle income levels forcing them to find new sources of growth

bull Chinese leaders are trying to deflate a real estate bubble by banning most purchases of second and third homes

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 3: China futures

Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Portrait

bull Peaceful rise gentle giant actmdashTom Friedman

bull Slow motion revolutionmdashIan Johnson

bull Rogue economic superpowermdashPaul Krugman

bull Chinarsquos view--the future belongs to us

What can go right

bull Economy amp employmentbull Exports amp Consumerism in Chinabull Standard of living improves

ndash Foodndash Healthndash Materialism

bull Social harmonybull International respect

Growing Up is Hard to Do

bull The middle-income trapmdashHigh growth has been propelled by low cost labor and easy technology adoption but these disappear when countries reach middle and upper middle income levels forcing them to find new sources of growth

bull Chinese leaders are trying to deflate a real estate bubble by banning most purchases of second and third homes

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 4: China futures

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Portrait

bull Peaceful rise gentle giant actmdashTom Friedman

bull Slow motion revolutionmdashIan Johnson

bull Rogue economic superpowermdashPaul Krugman

bull Chinarsquos view--the future belongs to us

What can go right

bull Economy amp employmentbull Exports amp Consumerism in Chinabull Standard of living improves

ndash Foodndash Healthndash Materialism

bull Social harmonybull International respect

Growing Up is Hard to Do

bull The middle-income trapmdashHigh growth has been propelled by low cost labor and easy technology adoption but these disappear when countries reach middle and upper middle income levels forcing them to find new sources of growth

bull Chinese leaders are trying to deflate a real estate bubble by banning most purchases of second and third homes

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 5: China futures

Is this the face of the 4th NEW China

Portrait

bull Peaceful rise gentle giant actmdashTom Friedman

bull Slow motion revolutionmdashIan Johnson

bull Rogue economic superpowermdashPaul Krugman

bull Chinarsquos view--the future belongs to us

What can go right

bull Economy amp employmentbull Exports amp Consumerism in Chinabull Standard of living improves

ndash Foodndash Healthndash Materialism

bull Social harmonybull International respect

Growing Up is Hard to Do

bull The middle-income trapmdashHigh growth has been propelled by low cost labor and easy technology adoption but these disappear when countries reach middle and upper middle income levels forcing them to find new sources of growth

bull Chinese leaders are trying to deflate a real estate bubble by banning most purchases of second and third homes

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 6: China futures

Portrait

bull Peaceful rise gentle giant actmdashTom Friedman

bull Slow motion revolutionmdashIan Johnson

bull Rogue economic superpowermdashPaul Krugman

bull Chinarsquos view--the future belongs to us

What can go right

bull Economy amp employmentbull Exports amp Consumerism in Chinabull Standard of living improves

ndash Foodndash Healthndash Materialism

bull Social harmonybull International respect

Growing Up is Hard to Do

bull The middle-income trapmdashHigh growth has been propelled by low cost labor and easy technology adoption but these disappear when countries reach middle and upper middle income levels forcing them to find new sources of growth

bull Chinese leaders are trying to deflate a real estate bubble by banning most purchases of second and third homes

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 7: China futures

What can go right

bull Economy amp employmentbull Exports amp Consumerism in Chinabull Standard of living improves

ndash Foodndash Healthndash Materialism

bull Social harmonybull International respect

Growing Up is Hard to Do

bull The middle-income trapmdashHigh growth has been propelled by low cost labor and easy technology adoption but these disappear when countries reach middle and upper middle income levels forcing them to find new sources of growth

bull Chinese leaders are trying to deflate a real estate bubble by banning most purchases of second and third homes

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 8: China futures

Growing Up is Hard to Do

bull The middle-income trapmdashHigh growth has been propelled by low cost labor and easy technology adoption but these disappear when countries reach middle and upper middle income levels forcing them to find new sources of growth

bull Chinese leaders are trying to deflate a real estate bubble by banning most purchases of second and third homes

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 9: China futures

The World BankOn the Road to 2030

bull Goalmdashto become a high income countrybull China should complete its transition to a

market economy bull Must focus on the quality of growth not just

quantity of growthbull A modern society is industrialized and

urbanized and enjoys a quality of life that is on par with the Western world

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 10: China futures

What can go wrong

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 11: China futures

Population

bull Expansionmdash15 billion people by 2030bull Approaching zero population growth

ndash Birth rates are low with 17 per woman per lifetime

ndash Need 21 for long-term replacementndash Due in part to 1979 population control 1-child

policybull Aging population with life expectancy

assumed to lengthen by 2030

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 12: China futures

Consequence

bull 2030 Chinarsquos median age will be over 41 higher than Europe or the US

bull In this future China there would be more than three senior citizens for each young child

bull The growing army of older people in China are listless and lost pessimistic and frightenedrdquo says Gerard Lemos in The End of the Chinese Dream (2012)

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 13: China futures

China Futures

bull Demographic outlook is unfavorablebull Chinarsquos demographic trends are strikingly

similar to the Soviet Unionrsquos a generation ago

bull Rising nationalism Aggressiveness Militarism Or

bull Peaceful evolution and mature international responsibility

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 14: China futures

Significant Events2013 amp Beyond

bull China becomes ldquoAmericanizedrdquobull China becomes a ldquoresponsiblerdquo international powerbull China becomes a ldquodemocracyrdquobull China becomes a ldquofailedrdquo state

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 15: China futures

Is the China DreamBeginning or Ending

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 16: China futures

What is the China dream

bull 1980s it was prosperity security stability bull Not so nowmdashfamily well being keeping a job

not getting sick affording medical treatment paying for their childrsquos education having enough to live on in their old age and

bull Living in a neighborly community

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 17: China futures

The Happiness Factor

bull Can social stability be bought by rapid economic growth

bull Where has the ldquoiron rice bowlrdquo gone ndash Permanent jobsndash Extensive employer provided safety net

bull Despite much lower levels of income life satisfaction among urban Chinese was almost as high as in the developed worldmdashRichard A Easterlin

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 18: China futures

Happiness continued

bull 2007mdashonly 27 of Chinese in lowest third of the income distribution expressed satisfaction with their financial situation down from 42 in 1990

bull Economic growth is not enoughmdashjob security and a social safety net are also critical to peoplersquos happiness

bull Capitalism hasnrsquot made the Chinese more satisfied with life

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 19: China futures

Threats

bull Increasing wages for blue collar workers Wages have nearly tripled in the last seven years or so

bull Slow economic growth could disrupt Chinarsquos progress toward becoming a high income harmonious and creative society

bull Managing the transition from a middle-income to a high-income society will prove challenging World Bank rpt 2012

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 20: China futures

Social Inequality

bull Deng Xiaopingrsquos admonishment ldquoTo get rich is glorious ldquo was followed by

bull ldquoLet some people get rich first rdquo And they havebull When Chinas leader Deng Xiaoping said To get rich

is glorious I dont think he imagined that the chasm between rich and poor in China could have serious political implications Zeng Xiangquan a labor economist at Peoples University

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 21: China futures

Wealth Inequality

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 22: China futures

Questions

ldquoCan China continue to prosper while censoring the Internet controlling its news media and insisting on a monopoly of political power by the Chinese Communist Partyrdquo asks Tom Friedman

ldquoCan China develop its full potential by offering its people economic freedom without political freedomrdquo

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 23: China futures

The End of the Chinese Dream

bull China is no longer a party-state as Mao and his successors intended

bull Instead it has become a market-state of plutocrats seeking to dominant the Leviathan with money if possible by force if necessary

bull The Chinese dream cultivated in the 1980s of prosperity security stability and even the beginning of freedom is at an endmdashGerard Lemos

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26
Page 24: China futures

Want to know more about the ldquonewrdquo China

You can find my new multi-touch book ldquoThe NEW Chinardquo in the iBookstore or the text version at Smashwordscom

Click on the images below

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Is there a 4th NEW China on the horizon
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China
  • Is this the face of the 4th NEW China (2)
  • Portrait
  • Slide 7
  • What can go right
  • Growing Up is Hard to Do
  • The World Bank On the Road to 2030
  • What can go wrong
  • Population
  • Consequence
  • China Futures
  • Significant Events 2013 amp Beyond
  • Slide 16
  • What is the China dream
  • The Happiness Factor
  • Happiness continued
  • Threats
  • Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Questions
  • Slide 24
  • The End of the Chinese Dream
  • Slide 26