Getting China Wrong

Getting China Wrong
Aaron L Friedberg
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 246pg
24 Mar 2022 UK
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9781509545124
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The West' s strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China' s rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of the existing international system. To the contrary: China today is more repressive at home, more aggressive abroad, and more obviously intent on establishing itself as the world' s preponderant power than at any time since the death of Chairman Mao. What went wrong? Put simply, the democracies underestimated the resilience, resourcefulness, and ruthlessness of the Chinese Communist Party. For far too long, the United States and its allies failed to take seriously the Party' s unwavering determination to crush opposition, build national power, and fulfill its ideological and geopolitical ambitions. In this timely and powerfully argued study, Aaron Friedberg identifies the assumptions underpinning engagement, describes the counterstrategy that China' s Communist Party rulers devised in order to exploit the West' s openness while defeating its plans, and explains what the democracies must do now if they wish to preserve their prosperity, protect their security, and defend their common values.
"This groundbreaking book chronicles the many misperceptions that American leaders have held about China in recent decades and subjects them to withering scrutiny . . . an important milestone in redirecting American thinking about China. " James Mann, author of The China Fantasy and About Face: A History of America' s Curious Relationship with China"Aaron Friedberg delivers the definitive history of America' s failed strategy of ' engagement' with the Communist regime in Beijing. But Friedberg doesn' t abandon his readers in a cold bath of disillusionment: he illuminates a path towards a winning strategy for America and other free nations. " Matt Pottinger, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former US Deputy National Security Advisor"There is simply no better assessor of China' s power and its consequences for the international order than Aaron Friedberg. This book should be used as an operating manual by everyone crafting US policy on how to deal with China. " Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute"In this careful and detailed study, Aaron Friedberg astutely explores how and why America' s decades-long strategy of ' engagement' with China came asunder -- and he provides a clear and sophisticated policy roadmap for revamping US and Western policies in order to deal with a more assertive and potentially threatening China. " David Shambaugh, George Washington University and author of China' s Leaders: From Mao to Now"A telling account of how and why policy-makers, academics, and business embraced a form of engagement with China that proved to be a sincerely optimistic but hopelessly wrong gamble. A trenchant and accessible foray into the geopolitics of our time and our future. " George Magnus, Research Associate, China Centre, University of Oxford and SOAS
Aaron L. Friedberg is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Over the past two decades he has written numerous books and articles warning of the dangers of an intensifying economic, military, and ideological rivalry between China and the West, including A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, Beyond Air-Sea Battle: The Debate Over U. S. Military Strategy in Asia, and Partial Disengagement: A New U. S. Strategy for Economic Competition with China. Follow him on Twitter @AaronFriedberg
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ISBN-13: 9781509545124
Published: 24 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Publisher: Polity Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 246

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