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"Let China rest, for when she wakes, she'll shake the globe." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the previous China bureau chief of the Financial Times, Wayne Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to European countries to the Midwest as China's ravenous food cravings for jobs, recycleables, energy, and food - and its export of goods, personnel, and purchases - dramatically reshape world trade and politics. Delving beyond mere recitation of by-now-familiar statistics, Kynges on-the-ground reporting provides substitute explanations for China's explosive transformation, revealing lots of the standard reasons given because of its growth to be common myths. Most important for the future, he details China's deep, systemic weaknesses - rampant scams, crippling environmental crises, a corrupt banking system, faltering government companies, a rapidly increasing age inhabitants - that threaten even greater global disruptions. And he demonstrates the profound outcomes of those weaknesses for American manufacturers, oil companies, banking institutions, and normal consumers. Through remarkable stories of internet marketers and visionaries, manufacturer workers and store clerks at the heart of this global occurrence, China Shakes the World points out how China's breakneck surge occurred, the outstanding problems the united states now faces, and the results of both for the 21st hundred years.
