This text examines Chinese power, comparing China with other world powers, and considering how this is likely to develop in the future. It identifies the foremost problems facing the Chinese state today, considers whether China is capable of overcoming these challenges, including whether communist rule can be sustained.

This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural environment and its management; satisfaction with freedom from fear; satisfaction with the socio-cultural conditions; and satisfaction with public governance. The authors attempt to be more constructive through performing policy simulations by first identifying relative weaknesses and strengths of 64...