Thinking about China – Part 2

By Justin Stakes

By Alan Caruba

Napoleon Bonaparte purportedly said, “Let China sleep, for when China wakes, she will shake the world.”

As Thomas J. Christensen, the author of his recently published “The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power,” reminds us, “For millennia China was arguably the greatest civilization on the planet and for many previous centuries its most powerful empire.”

China is no longer an empire, but it remains a huge nation geographically and huge in terms of its population.

From the website worldometers.info, we learn:

• The population of China is estimated at 1,393,783,836 as of July 1 2014.
• China’s population is equivalent to 19.24% of the total world population.
• China ranks number 1 in the list of countries by population.
• 54% of the population is urban (756,300,115 people in 2014).
• The median age in China is 35.7 years.

Christensen is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Currently he is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics and director of the China and World Program at Princeton University. After reading his book, you might well conclude that there is little about China and Asia he does not know.

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