How serious are the challenges to China's continued rise?

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: 1,0, King`s College London, language: English, abstract: The following essay will identify the key challenges to China's continued rise and weightheir seriousness in terms of possible negative impacts to the future development of the country. Itwill follow the argument that the challenges to China's continued rise are very serious and that theimpressive growth of the last decades is not sustainable and led to social injustice within theChinese society (YanglHeng 2012: 3). In a first step, the author will define what he understands by "e;China's rise"e;. The essay willcontinue with a short overview of the challenges in order to underline the dimension andcomplexity of the obstacles the Chinese government has to face. After that overview, the essay willgo into more detail and identify the economical, social and political key challenges which mayimpede a further successful development. Finally, the essay will summarise its findings and providean outlook for the years to come.