Part 50 (1/2)

39 high levels of corruption throughout China

Feldstein, ”China's Biggest Problems Are Political, Not Economic.”

40 an estimated 64 million empty apartments in China

”Crisis in China: 64 Million Empty Apartments,” Asia News, September 15, 2010,

41 windmills constructed by China are not connected to the electrical grid

”Weaknesses in Chinese Wind Power,” Forbes, July 20, 2009.

42 largest internal migration in history

”The Largest Migration in History,” Economist, February 24, 2012.

43 ”180,000 protests, riots and other ma.s.s incidents”

Tom Orlik, ”Unrest Grows as Economy Booms,” Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2011.

44 fourfold increase from 2000

Ibid.

45 building in response to economic inequality

Feldstein, ”China's Biggest Problems Are Political, Not Economic”; Wendy Dobson, Gravity s.h.i.+ft: How Asia's New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the Twenty-First Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).

46 intolerable environmental conditions

Dobson, Gravity s.h.i.+ft.

47 autocratic local and regional leaders