The Great Decoupling

China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy

The Great Decoupling
Nigel Inkster
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 248pg
17 Dec 2020 UK
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9781787383838
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For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed the Industrial Revolution. The result was the ' Hundred Years of Humiliation' , and a long struggle for a modern, yet distinctly Chinese, civilisational identity. Today, technological innovation has returned to the core of national pride and ambition. Since the 1980s, reforms have transformed China into the world' s second largest economy and a major global power. Cyber space and other advanced technologies have become a battleground for international dominance; but today' s world relies on global supply chains and interstate collaboration-at least, for now. Growing tension between the USA and China could result in the two superpowers decoupling their technology-with significant consequences for humanity' s future. The Great Decoupling shows that this technology contest, and how it plays out, will shape the geopolitics of the twenty-first century.
' A lucid, pragmatic and succinct overview of where the world' s second largest economy currently stands, and what it might look like as it moves towards number one status. Inkster draws on his long experience, both in dealing with China, and as a diplomatic practitioner, to give authoritative judgements of what this world where China plays an increasingly dominant role might look like, and what the key challenges for the outside will be. ' -- Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute, King' s College London. ' This is a superbly written, cogently argued, and insightful discussion of China' s digital rise by a British intelligence insider. It needs to be read by all concerned about the deepening rivalry between China and the USA. ' -- Hans van de Ven, Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge
Nigel Inkster CMG is Senior Advisor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a director of geopolitical and intelligence analysis at Enodo Economics, prior to which he worked in the British government dealing with foreign policy and security issues. The author of China' s Cyber Power, his lifelong fascination with China started when he studied the language and culture at Oxford.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787383838
Published: 17 Dec 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 248

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