China is now the world's second largest economy, and it is expected to overtake the United States to become the largest … by 2020. What are the implications for the global environment and climate change if China surpasses the United States …? There are major concerns with China's rapid rise because its economic and industrial structure is increasingly dependent on …

, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …

Trade statistics portray China as the largest exporter of high-tech products. This paper demonstrates that China … China, thus greatly inflating its exports. This paper adopted a value-added approach to more accurately measure high …-tech exports, revealing that, in 2009, China's value-added accounted for only about 3 percent of the total value attributed for its …