China stuff

Question 1

Economic Power (poistive)

Answer 1

• no.1 GDP (real) in the world - $24.86tril
• 2021: defence budget $209bil
• 2021: growth 8.1% vs 2019 6% vs 2020 2.24%
• public debt: 111th in world
• only 0.6% of population below poverty line
• low unemployment rate at 4.82% in 2021
• no.1 at exports in world - worth $3.5tril
• imports: 2nd in world
• no.1 in reserves of foreign exchange in gold
• AIIB

Question 2

Economic Power (negative)

Answer 2

• GDP per capita: 99th in world
• budget deficit growing
• GINI coefficient of 38.2
• inflation is too low - 0.8%

Question 3

Military Power (positive)

Answer 3

• announce will rise def. budget 7.2% in 2023 from 2022 $190bil
• def. budget bigger than Jap, Russia, SK,
• spent $200bil on R&D + foreign weapon procurement
• largest active personnel (2mil)
• 2020 goal of modernisation achieved
• Navy: no.1 amount of boats, , subs have ability to launch nuclear missiles
• 2019 they got DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles
• 3rd largest airforce in world, largest airforce in Asia-Pacific: 2,500 aircraft

Question 4

Military Power (negative)

Answer 4

• defence budget is only quarter of US
• outdated command structure
• still using large amount of outdated equipment
• only 2 large aircraft carries vs US 11

Question 5

Political Power (positive)

Answer 5

• one party state: no credible domestic threat
• increasing power of Xi eg. reverse term limits in 2017: only 2 against
• Xi Jinping ideology enshrined in constitution
• censorship, CCP monopoly on power eg. ‘great firewall of China’ censoring many sites

Question 6

Political Power (negative)

Answer 6

• human rights watch: estimated 250 - 500 protests occur per day, with participants in the 1000’s

Question 7

Cultural Power