The Future of China and the Challenges Ahead: A Book Review

A lot of people enjoyed John Nesbitt’s book MegaTrends China which was interesting, however a lot of the future predictions he made didn’t turn out exactly as he hoped or thought they would. Ten years later, in retrospect, we see that he was close, but a decade or more away, but that’s okay, “change is never as fast as we think it will be,” as he stated in his recent book “Mindset.”

But how would you like to read a book written by someone from China, a bio-researcher with a European university education, who has returned to China and has written many research papers in his field of science? an author assessing what China needs as it grows into a world power?

Well, after extensively discussing all the various problems China is facing and how they are working to overcome their many problems and challenges, problems that every rapidly growing nation needs to address with the actual author; I would like to tell you about his book;

“China: Has the Last Chance Passed!?” by Guang Wu (a university researcher), Nova Science Publishers, 2009. ISBN-10: 1607415380 or ISBN-13: 978-1607415381 (depending on hardcover or paper).

This book was very short, about 70 pages of text, but the author raises a lot of important points of contention that are of course open to debate, but more importantly, they come from someone who has lived in China and studied in the Foreign. Guang Wu has seen, for example, how the Swiss run their nation and how the Chinese run theirs.

Seeing the value of each and how China can learn from other nations, Wu the writer explains how difficult it will be for the Chinese to cross the barriers and what they need to consider from a philosophical and organizational point of view to reach their full potential. ; a western reader of culture and history might be annoyed by some of the conclusions and questions raised, but it is interesting for thought’s sake.

Then you may like this book very much. Personally, I enjoyed debating with the author and I hope that in his next book he will address the following topics;

• Why is China selling advanced military weapons to enemy nation states of the US?
• Why does China have over 6,000 industrial and military spies in the US?
• Why doesn’t China clarify its monetary policies for fair trade? Why doesn’t China use its force to end North Korea’s nuclear issue?
• Why does China trade with Venezuela and Iran and sell them weapons?
• Why did the Chinese president condemn US monetary policy at Davos and the BRIC conference?
• Why does China engage in human rights violations in Burma, Tibet and other disputed border areas?
• Why are China’s military brass threatening the US military?
• Why did China steal a US P-3 Orion aircraft from the US military?
• Why is China playing hide-and-seek and challenging the US Navy?
• Why is China sending poisonous dog food, baby food, toothpaste, and lead-painted toys to the US?
• Is China or is it not testing biological weapons in its rural provinces?
• Did China sell radar-guided missiles to Iran, which gave them to Hezbollah to fire at Israel?

These and other questions were not answered in the book and the author seems to be confused about capitalism and how it works or socialism and communism and why it doesn’t work, still the reader needs to understand the perceptions and educational challenges that merge the mind. and have allowed this author to reach such conclusions. Why don’t you read this book and decide what you think?