sense of nationalism cannot be injured without suffering a negative effect on the rest of the world. Chapter 4 is written by Dwight Perkins, and as its title states, analyzes "How China's Economic Transformation Shapes Its Future." [Pg. 141] The author goes into long discussion about the changing economics and increasing wealth in China and what effects this may have globally and the United States. It is concluded that, even though, the United States has little control over how China chooses to grow into becoming a global power, it is in the U.S.'s best interest to encourage China to do so within the global economic system and join the World Trade Organization. Chapter 5 is written by Harry Harding and focuses on the major issue of human rights. The major conflict is in that the American public views China's treatment of rebel, labor unions, child labor, and illegality of religion are innately wrong and most believe, via the press and Tiananmen Square, that human rights in China have diminished. China on the other hand, sees that it has made great progress in this area including giving more power to the legislative bodies, and popularizing the local elections, and feels slighted by America's inability to recognize this. It sees America's pressures through sanctions and removing its priority nation status as nothing more than to keep China weak. The basics are that the two country's innate political values and ideology conflict and make resolving this issue quite difficult. The author's conclusion is to mange the issue by China taking on a program of gradual political reform and understand the rest of the world's concerns about its human rights activities and the United State's creating an open-minded definition of human rights and that the two should learn to cooperate with each other to resolve this issue. Chapter 6 is written by Julia Chang Bloch and focus on business and economic relations between the U.S. and China. This is one of t...
