In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the … Chinese dragon stirs and shifts.China's rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring … been an essential part of this transformation, providing the raw materials to feed China's frantic manufacture of steel …

-weight to China, though fundamentally different from that country and overshadowed by it in an unequal military balance and in …

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology of Main Events -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 China's Challenge to the Global … Economic Order -- The Systemic Challenge -- Global Implications -- A New Approach -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 China Debates Its … -- Evolution of China's Political Reform: Instrumental, Incremental, and Idiosyncratic -- Putting Theory into Practice -- Rhetoric …