Five recent books offer five different but often overlapping explanations for how Sino-American relations have reached such a parlous state. Taken together, they suggest that while America may have overdone its previous policy of engagement, it would be a dangerous mistake to go too far in the other direction.
C. Fred Bergsten, The United States vs. China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership, Polity, 2022.
Rush Doshi, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Elizabeth Economy, The World According to China, Polity, 2022.
Aaron Friedberg, Getting China Wrong, Polity, 2022.
Kevin Rudd, The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China, PublicAffairs, 2022.
MILAN – The war in Ukraine has not changed America’s strategic priorities. China, not Russia, remains the greatest challenge to the liberal order. “China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained in a recent speech. “Beijing’s vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world’s progress over the past 75 years.”
C. Fred Bergsten, The United States vs. China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership, Polity, 2022.
Rush Doshi, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Elizabeth Economy, The World According to China, Polity, 2022.
Aaron Friedberg, Getting China Wrong, Polity, 2022.
Kevin Rudd, The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China, PublicAffairs, 2022.
MILAN – The war in Ukraine has not changed America’s strategic priorities. China, not Russia, remains the greatest challenge to the liberal order. “China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained in a recent speech. “Beijing’s vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world’s progress over the past 75 years.”