The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China--and How America Can Win
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307951235 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"China Will Give the U.S. a Run For Their Money" according to Alastair Browne. Whether you know it or not, China is a rising power, and they are here to stay! Whether or not they completely replace the U.S. as THE world power is mainly up to the U.S., not China.Even if you don't think China is going to do so, they are not going anywhere, nor are they going. He gets China I really enjoyed reading this book and felt Mr. Dyer gets China. He illustrates the historical background that drives many geopolitical actions of the Chinese government, including their support for the failing regime of North Korea, which makes sense only if we understand their. A Freightening Agenda ernest schusky Dyer has to review some of the obvious ways in which China competes with the United States, but he shares insights into a not-so-well-known China that appears to have taken all the theoretical development recommendations to heart. Thus, he points out such little known facts as C
Instead, it will be characterized by a constant balancing of power and shifting coalitions, according to Dyer, economics correspondent for the Financial Times. Dyer focuses on three phenomena: the rising Chinese challenge to U.S. dollar by the strengthening Chinese currency. power in military might in Asia, nationalist policies on the world stage, and the challenge to the U.S. Finally, Dyer addresses fatalistic views of the rise of China, arguing that the U.S. A thoughtful, insightful look at changing geopolitics. From Booklist After decades of dominance in world geopolitics, the U.S. Dyer places the current rise of China in the broader context of changes in the Chinese Communist Party, including reform of its image since the Tiananmen Square massacre and more
He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.. Geoff Dyer is a journalist for the Financial Times and has been a correspondent in China, the U.S., and Brazil. He studied at Cambridge and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award and of several journalism awards, including a Society of Publishers in Asia Award for a series of opinion pieces about China’s role in the world in 2010
Tensions in the South China Sea and East China Sea are a foretaste of the broader competition to come. After decades of rising, China has entered a new and critical phase, seeking to turn its economic heft into global power. In this deeply informed book, Geoff Dyer argues that China and the United States are now embarking on a great power-style competition that will dominate the century. From former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief Geoff Dyer, a balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition between China and America.Global politics is shifting rapidly. With keen analysis based on a deep local knowledge—offering the reader visions of coastal Chinese beauty pageants and secret submarine bases, lockstep Beijing military parades and pigeons caged from the sky—Dyer explains why the U.S. The Contest of the Century is essential reading at a time of great uncertainty about America’s future and about Asia’