- Bib ID:
- 5980965
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fallows, James M
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Pantheon Books, c2012
- xiii, 268 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
-
- Summary:
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Evaluates China's plan to rival America as a leading aerospace power, revealing the nation's considerable investments in airports and airplane construction while making recommendations for how the United States should respond.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: the flight to Zhuhai
- This is going to be big
- Getting off the ground
- The men from Boeing
- The Chinese master plan
- An airport in the wilderness
- An American dream, turned Chinese
- China's own Boeing
- The environmental consequences of aviation
- The tensions inside China
- The Chinese model, airborne.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index.
- Subject:
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