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China Story Yearbook: Crisis by Jane Golley; Linda Jaivin; Sharon Strange; Australian National University Press; Australian Centre on China in the World is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The year 2020 was marked by a series of rolling crises. The Australian wildfires at the start of the year were a catastrophic sign of the global climate crisis. Xi Jinping's announcement in September that the People's Republic of China would become carbon neutral by 2060 could help alleviate the crisis, but China has to fix its coal problem first. The big story was, of course, the global COVID-19 pandemic. Appearing to originate in a Wuhan wet market, by year's end the pandemic had claimed nearly 2 million lives worldwide, put whole countries into lockdown, and sent economies around the world tumbling into recession. China itself successfully suppressed the disease at home and recorded positive economic growth for the year -- proving, at least according to the Chinese Communist Party, the 'superiority of the socialist system'. Not everyone was convinced, with persistent questions about the CCP's initial cover up of the outbreak, and how the lack of transparency helped it become a pandemic in the first place. The China Story Yearbook 2020: Crisis surveys the multiple crises of the year of the Metal Rat, including the catastrophic mid-year floods that sparked fears about the stabilit

Who reads China Story Yearbook: Crisis?

Author

Jane Golley; Linda Jaivin; Sharon Strange; Australian National University Press; Australian Centre on China in the World

Publisher

Australian National University, ANU Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760464387

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, History