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This paper discusses how the growth of a nation depends on many different factors to ensure success; asserting oneself on a global scale can often create tensions between other large developed nations. In particular, it looks at the development of China as opposed to Western countries and contends that China will not be able to continue its current growth unless something is drastically changed. It looks at how, as China grows, it requires more resources to sustain its industry and economy and how this necessarily means working together with other countries from which to trade and extract resources. This, in turn, also works to make the issue of China's development a global issue, as the goods must come from somewhere abroad. It also examines how China is experiencing environmental problems in every category; air pollution, dangerous industrial emissions, over-logging, insufficient clean water, over-expansion of urban areas to name a few.

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"There are numerous reasons why change is needed in China, with respect to the health of its people and the continued growth of their economy. China has some of the lowest factory wages on the planet (Guo, 2006); the result of this is cheap goods and therefore more factories and more harmful emissions. It costs far less money to operate a factory in say Chongquin than it does in New York, this is the reasoning behind the relocation of many factories. This is a process that hurts everyone involved, as we see the loss of high paying jobs in the west to move factories abroad. An instance like this occurred recently in Smith Falls Ontario with the Hershey chocolate factory that had operated there since 1963. The factory announced its closure in February of 2007 (CBC, 2007, article), it employed some 400 people of a town with a population of 9000. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown, Kerry. 2007. Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century. Anthem Press, London.
• Cheek, Timothy. 2006. Living With Reform: China Since 1989. Fernwood Publishing, Nova Scotia.
• Economy, Elizabeth. . The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future.Cornell University Press.
• Guo, Sujian. 2006. China's "Peaceful Rise" in the 21st Century: Domestic and International Conditions. Ashgate Publishing.
• Kahn, Joseph. 2007. Choking on Growth. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/world/asia/26china.html

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