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Also, by using credible, well-known sources like the World Bank and the World Health Organization, the author establishes credibility. In addition, both these sources have the word ‘world’ in front of them, which indicates that China’s pollution problems are a cause for global concern. Therefore, Auslin’s use of the rhetorical appeals of logos and ethos helps him inform his readers on the enormity of the pollution.

Small changes that lead to bigger changes are being made. The book Collapse tells us about changes that China has made to change the environmental problem at hand. In 1973 China established Leading Group for Environmental Protection, which later became State

China is an example of an emerging superpower; its economy has doubled in size every eight years since 1980. Since 2000, China has been the largest recipient of overseas investment, and now foreign-owned companies . 60% of the world trade since 2004 has been as a result of Chinas industrialisation. So here we can see that China has developed due to industrialisation, which has increased its power. China use to be a low-income country, so we can see from a low-income country to an emerging superpower how powers can shift over time due to many factors that influence the world. However even though China is an emerging superpower, it has come with some cost to the environment for example China has 16 of the top 20 most air-polluted cities in the world. The polluted air was blamed for over 4000 000 premature deaths in 2003.

According to history of China, water consumption, growing population and demand for higher living standards were increasing steadily since the 1950s, when industrial development of the country started. In theory that could lead to new economic era and growth of the country, but in practice that caused one of the most important environmental problems in China. First of all, the pollution of water resources in this country goes deep into history in the 1970s. According to Wang (1989), the situation hasn’t changed for the better and the rate of pollution increased rapidly. Even nowadays the government of China cannot tackle

Collier asserts that the poorest states are in need of rapid economic growth which creates tension between poverty reduction and the perversion of nature. This is most evident in China where their desire to grow economically has come at the price of pollution. While China has grown exponentially economically and have reduced poverty, this growth is not sustainable due to their negligence of the environment. The level of pollution in major cities has hurt the Chinese economy because individuals are refusing to do business there due to health concerns. This effects Chinese businesses and their tourism industry. More times than not, states will choose economic growth, however, in the long run this choice will negatively impact their economy.

/////////These ideas bring me to my final point that corporate greed may be destroying the dreams of a green and eco-friendly world. “The former Shanghai Communist Party chief and Dongtan’s primary political backer, was sentenced in 2008 to 18 years in prison on corruption charges.” The New York Times. The party chief who at the time was spear heading the operation caused a momentary standstill in the plans. Also a failure to consult the general populous made it seem as though the people had no voice in the ideas of renovating their own city. With money or political standings backing every decision, it appears as though the government had stepped and put their ideas of what is better for the masses. This of course we know not to be true, and their failed attempt at a Utilitarian view demonstrates that the backers of the project were only thinking of themselves and not putting the needs of the people first. Sze brings up a valid point, that as well as the corruption in the government, there is also a contradictory belief that building an eco-city is eco-friendly. When in fact the production of the metals and plastic that it takes to even make an attempt at a self-sustained city might

Ever since the 1980s, China had begun a great push toward urban modernization. Unsustainable, however, this push for continued urbanization dramatized an already problematic urban and rural disparity. In turn, this also fed into other major sociopolitical issues. Among them were environmental degradation and many food safety scandals, which threatened China’s consumer confidence.

Hung’s stated goals are as follows. First, he aims to outline the historical origins of the capitalist boom in China as well as the conditions which predicated said boom. He also names four conceptions against history to explore the global effects of China’s capitalist boom and the limit of that boom. Firstly, he seeks to challenge the notion that China is challenging the United States neoliberal order. Secondly, he examines the belief that the increasing incomes of poor Chinese citizens helps to reverse worldwide income polarization. Thirdly, he analyzes the claim that China’s rise is challenging Western dominion over the world, and is radically altering the world order. Lastly, he plans to evaluate the assertion that China has been emerging as the most powerful driver of growth since the global financial crisis. He plans to devote a single chapter to the refutation of each of these views and explanations of why they overstate the importance of China, in addition to several introductory chapters describing China’s rise. He aims to prove with this work that China is no different than the other major capitalist powers, that its boom is dependent on the global neoliberal order, that its boom contributes to rampant inequality, and, in sum, that China is just a foundation of the capitalist status quo.

One of China’s best successes has in turn been one of its biggest downfalls. One of the main problems is China’s greatest success which has been its phenomenal economic growth. This is one of the main drivers of the current environmental problems that the country faces. Factories dump pollutants into the air and water. It is difficult to see the Chinese government making the significant sacrifices required to improve their environment if it means slowing down their economic growth.

Nature impacts the world in many ways. China has been impacted by nature environmentally and financially. Everything that China has been through they still always help other countries when they can. China has many ups and down and most of these down are from nature. China population may have grown just not enough for the country to reform its economic system and keep full employment. China is a poor country still and with all the nature problem, it is only making things worse for China. They try to help as much as they can and still get labeled badly.

However, there is comfort to know that western developed countries like United States, United Kingdom and Japan have been through serious environmental issues too and are able to reverse them. This method is interpreted as “pollute first, control later” in Chinese context, which means environmental cost is inevitable when developing Chinese economy, and measures would be taken towards this environmental cost later with a more solid economic base than before.

China began to reform its market in the early 1980s, with the shifting of a centrally planned economy to a market-based economy, China has experienced soaring economic growth and social development. In the meanwhile, the environmental degradation is getting worse. Yet, the environmental protection law enacted by the Chinese government barely have an effect. Economists and scientists have both pointed out that, if the Chinese government does not take timely and effective measures to reverse the current environmental degradation, such pollution problems will greatly hinder the future economic development in China, and the living standard of Chinese citizens

The purpose of this essay is to show how the economy of China has, and is changing, becoming the second largest economy in the world today. Although China is currently under the leadership of Xi Jinping, this essay will concentrate primarily on the actions undertaken by then President Mao Zedong, followed by then President Deng Xiaoping, (sans mention of Hua Guofeng). Given the relative infancy of Xi’s assumption of power, economic policies still remain largely rhetorical in form. Likewise, the majority of literature concerning economic policies under Xi are largely speculative, often citing strategies and ambitions as opposed to thereby, lacking a solid basis for rational induction In addition to China’s lack of transparency, In addition, it will be shown that the methodology behind the Chinese economy demonstrates the implementation of varying levels of the characteristics associated with the schools of Realism, Marxism and Liberalism. Thus, China’s approach to global trade in the 21st Century is pluralistic, testamentary to the failed economic

While elements of this system are problematic, spending on development is positive on the whole. Due to development, “sleepy rural towns” have “transformed into major cities,” leading to a “growing Chinese middle class” of white-collar urban workers. Although economic growth has widened income inequality, it has “raised the living standards of most of the population dramatically” and lifted more than 500 million Chinese citizens out of poverty. Additionally, some economists believe that development may lead to equality in the long term. They propose that China’s development follows a Kuznets curve whereby “growth results in

Collier asserts that the poorest states are in need of rapid economic growth which creates tension between poverty reduction and the perversion of nature. This is most evident in China where their desire to grow economically has come at the price of pollution. While China has grown exponentially economically and have reduced poverty, this growth is not sustainable due to their negligence of the environment. The level of pollution in major cities has hurt the Chinese economy because individuals are refusing to do business there due to health