Noticias. Activismo. Economía política. Industria. China's growing pains. Beijing, China - If everything goes right for China, it will surpass the United States as the world's largest economy, in current dollar terms (and more quickly in real terms), by 2021.
Its per capita income will reach that of today's lower tier of high-income countries. But, despite its forward momentum, the Chinese economy faces looming risks in the coming decade. The immediate risk is the continuing stagnation, or recession, in Europe. In the past decade, export growth has accounted for roughly one-third of China's overall economic growth, and about one-third of Chinese exports went to the European Union. If the situation in Europe continues to deteriorate, China's growth will be dragged down with it. Over-tightening of domestic macroeconomic policies, especially those aimed at the real-estate market, could heighten the risk of a slowdown, with house prices currently falling across China, owing to stringent government measures.
China's government is production-oriented by nature.
Censura. Arte y expos. Chinese Women Marrying Gay Men: Report. Though recent years have reportedly brought China's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community a bit more out of the shadows of old, a new report claims that as many as 16 million Chinese women are married to gay men.
One of the nation's authorities on HIV/AIDS, Qingdao University's Zhang Bei-chuan told China Daily that about 90 percent of the nation's gay men get married to heterosexual women in an effort to conform with social norms. As Pink News pointed out, that's roughly three percent of the nation's entire population. "But their wives are struggling to cope and their plight should be recognized," he is quoted by the publication, which is the country's largest English-language newspaper, as saying. Still, the professor's claims seemed to divide local gay residents. "Zhang's estimation is unsubstantiated and I even feel it's pointless to research the issue," Xiao Dong, a 36-year-old gay man, told the publication.
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And all the while its economy continues to grow at a rate far outpacing the economies of western nations. With increasing confidence, China's leaders have now stepped to the center of the world stage and for many people in China that is exactly where they should be, given the country's history and civilisation. Does that necessarily mean that we are entering a new era of Chinese exceptionalism or even dominance? Professor Zhang Weiwei, served as a translator for one of the key architects of China's transformation, Deng Xiaoping.He is now an international scholar arguing a case for China as the world's exceptional civilisation. In his latest book, The China Wave: the Rise of a Civilizational State, he offers a robust rebuttal of critics, especially in the West, who keep emphasising China's shortcomings.