Susan Shirk's Research Referenced in Investor's Business Daily
Rising Social Unrest May Upend Top-Down China
01/18/2011
Doug Tsuruoka,
Investor's Business Daily
President Hu Jintao began a triumphant U.S. visit Tuesday, lifted by a Chinese growth engine that is pulling the global economy even as America and other rich nations struggle to recover from major recessions.
But rising strikes over pay and protests over government policies and corruption suggest some flaws in China's top-down model. Rising social unrest as well as political and economic challenges could upend the country's growth miracle in the not-too-distant future, according to some executives and China experts.
Massive social turmoil and violence aren't that far back in China's rearview mirror.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
