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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554279103321

Autore

Prestowitz Clyde

Titolo

The world turned upside down : America, China, and the struggle for global leadership / / Clyde Prestowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-300-25634-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

330.951

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs

History

China Economic policy 2000-

China Foreign economic relations United States

United States Foreign economic relations China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Know The Other -- 1. Origins of the Chinese Dream -- 2. The Party Is Like God -- 3. The Strategy -- 4. The Threat -- Part II. Know Yourself -- 5. How America Got Rich -- 6. The False God -- 7. Blind Prophets, Tycoons, and Soothsayers -- Part III. Nothing to Fear From 100 Battles -- 8. Lay of the Land -- 9. A Long Telegram -- 10. The Plan for China -- 11. The Plan for America -- Afterword: My Presidential State of the Union Address -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confronted When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, most experts expected the WTO rules and procedures would liberalize China and make it “a responsible stakeholder in the liberal world order.” But the experts made the wrong bet. China today is liberalizing neither economically nor politically but, if anything, becoming more authoritarian and mercantilist. In this book, notably free of partisan posturing and inflammatory rhetoric, renowned globalization and Asia expert Clyde Prestowitz describes the key challenges posed by China and the



strategies America and the Free World must adopt to meet them. He argues that these must be more sophisticated and more comprehensive than a narrowly targeted trade war. Rather, he urges strategies that the U.S. and its allies can use unilaterally without contravening international or domestic law.