Challenging China: Smart Strategies for Dealing with China in the Xi Jinping Era

by Sam Kaplan Narrated by Brian Craig

Overview

Expertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage.

This book provides a fascinating insider's look at how China is changing rapidly today, how these changes pose grave risks to the rest of the world, and how the U.S. and its allies can best address these challenges. Trade wars and U.S. presidents may come and go, but the fundamental dynamics of the U.S.-China relationship will remain in place for years to come.

Challenging China is a popular current events explanation of how China has become more authoritarian and expansionist and what strategies the U.S. and its allies need to adopt to address this new China. Although delving into serious issues, Challenging China is written in an engaging way and probably the only book on China that references Dolly Parton, LeBron James and Bruce Springsteen.

Topics addressed include:

• The ongoing political crackdown in Hong Kong and heightened tensions with Taiwan
• The deteriorating human rights situation in China for normal Chinese as well as the Uyghur and Tibetan minorities
• Internal Chinese political and social dynamics and Xi Jinping's dominance of the party
• China's ongoing sense of anti-Western grievance and its new military assertiveness
• Increases in censorship and governmental control of dissent both off and online
• The effects of U.S. trade policy on China including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trump's tariff wars, and the new U.S.-China Trade Agreement
• How and why U.S. responses up to now have been ineffectual and counter-productive
• Climate change policy and how cooperating with China can work if we want it to
• New strategies to convince China to modify its behavior while avoiding direct confrontation
• And much more!

The story of China's rise is a remarkable tale of economic success, but that alone has not and will not lead to political liberalization. This book shows how actively engaging China, while protecting our own interests, can in fact work to promote its liberalization. This includes a wide array of strategies including trade alliances with other countries, cooperating with China on climate change, protecting Taiwan and using human rights as a foreign policy tool.

Author Sam Kaplan has worked on China policy and trade for over thirty years. Drawing upon his extensive experience, contacts and research, he proposes new ways of dealing with China in a smarter, more realistic way. There is reason to be optimistic that China can and will change if we apply the right strategies and have the will to implement them.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"[Kaplan] combines first-hand experience with detailed research into the aims of China's expansionism and offers a road map for the United States to respond and prosper." —Nor Coquillard, Executive Director, Washington State China Relations Council

"In Challenging China, Sam Kaplan provides a richly detailed, compelling essay on [Chinese leadership's] growing penchant toward authoritarianism, its impact on the people of China and its relations with the U.S. This book is a must-read, whether your focus is on China's military, its economy, Taiwan, Tibet, and/or its relationship with the U.S." —Joe Borich, Former Consul General of U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, Former President of Washington State China Relations Council

"It's never been more difficult—or more necessary—for the world to find the right balance in how to approach China. While there are many areas where the west must rightfully challenge China, there are also many others that require collaboration if we are to avoid out right hot conflict. Sam has done a good job threading the needle between the challenges and opportunities, and in so doing, provides readers with a useful set of insights that can and should shape policy and political decisions." —Benjamin Shobert, Author Blaming China: It Might Feel Good But It Won't Fix America's Economy

"Sam's book is a timely reminder that our country's greatest tools to meet any challenge from China include what we do to invest in our own competitive advantage, the promotion of human rights and working with other countries. Easy to read for folks who want an introduction to the current state of U.S.-China relations with plenty of heft for the serious China watcher." —Rick Larsen, Member of Congress

"Informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, Challenging China: Smart Strategies for Dealing with China in the Xi Jinping Era is exceptionally well written, organized, and presented, making it an ideal and essential addition to community, corporate, governmental, college, and university library Contemporary International Chinese/American studies collections."—Midwest Book Review

"We should be worried, the new world power order may depend on China, or rather the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In fact, we are a little late in the face of a situation that should have triggered alerts perhaps since 2012, when Xi Jinping assumed power with a clearly authoritarian profile and an expansionist agenda. This is one of the reference points around which Sam Kaplan, author of Challenging China (Tuttle, 2021), offers a comprehensive study to understand the geopolitical context and analyze strategies to deal with China in the Xi Jinping era.

However, despite reviewing the advantages with which the Asian giant runs, the book is an invitation to think with intelligence and perspective. Kaplan starts at home; he says the US must be and prove to be more successful and exemplary in every way. He must also seek and consolidate alliances, especially with those with whom he shares concerns, such as the European Union, who also condemn the theft of intellectual property, the lack of transparency in contracts and, in general, protectionist policies that make relations with China very difficult." —ElCato.org, the Spanish website of the Cato Institute

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176408508
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	11/09/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged

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