Аннотация:Three decades after its brilliantly successful conversion to market economy, and seven years after its entry into the World Trade Organisation, China is now confronted with intermeshed social and environmental threats that could well short-circuit a portion of its patiently built achievements.The leadership's decisions in the next few years could as easily plunge China into a structural crisis as impart a new dynamism, says Benoît Vermander.China, he says, is caught between two paradigms: "brown China" and "green China."The first term stands for a strategy of social control, pursuit of high growth rates whatever the social and ecological cost, and immediate maximisation on the international arena of the advantages linked to the country's rise.The second term denotes political liberalisation and promotion of sustainable development as well as international cooperation.
