Being the world's largest population, and having the 4th Largest economy in terms of nominal GDP, China is quickly ascending the role of United States' primary economic and political rival. However, this apparent show of new found vigour hides many proglems affecting Ching presently
Primarily, the income inequalities occuring between the rural countryside and coastal urban centers which have recieved the 'Special Economic Zone' designations, could provide a strain strong enough to undo decades of Maoist rhetoric and propaganda.