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Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development comprehensively examines key problems crucial to understanding modern-day China. Organized around three inter-related themes of unity, stability and development, chapters explore distinct issues (such as miliarty transformation, energy security, health and education) and debate their significance for domestic China and Beijing´s engagement with the wider world. A fully revised and substantially expanded new edition, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date assessment of major political, social and economic challenges facing China.

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