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Has China Won?
- The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?
China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.
America prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos. America values strategic decisiveness; China values patience.America is becoming society of lasting inequality; China a meritocracy. America has abandoned multilateralism; China welcomes it.
Kishore Mahbubani, a diplomat and scholar with unrivalled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington, has written the definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses, and superpower eccentricities, of the US and China.
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- Samuel K.
- 27-01-2023
Amazing insight into China's rise and future
A much needed discussion that intertwines history, politics, psychology, and philosophy with political opinions of all sides.
I feel more could have been said about China's poverty alleviation, revolutionary appeal it had amongst the working classes and minorities of the West, China's sponsorship of the Taliban alongside the USA-CIA during the Sino-Soviet split, Maoist revolutionaries in India and the Philippines causing havoc amidst the poverty and corruption caused by Western-styled economics. I believe Kishore is more pro-Western and bypasses the issue of class which has been a historical fact of time immemorial.
Nevertheless, as Western civilisation and its citizens are unaware of China's complexity and its phenomenal rise, and even are fearful of mentioning the facts and analysing things in a rational and logical way - Kishore Mahbubani does a wonderful job exposing what is missing in the uninformed Western mentality.
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- Vince Cheng
- 09-10-2020
Required reading and well balanced
Required reading and a very well balanced book in light of the incessant propaganda and disinformation coming from the western countries, as it stands in 2020. China is reclaiming it’s place in the world, they are doing so pragmatically and peacefully, with the world returning to millennia-long equilibrium in the 21st century.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-10-2021
Biased but thought provoking
If you can suffer the writers bias and weed through the usual liberal hyperbole it is worth the read.
The writer is pro China and anti American and believes the biggest existential threats to the human race are Donald Trump and Climate change.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-05-2021
Awful. Chinese propaganda dressed up as academic prose.
This books is so one-sided it’s not funny.
The book is full of Chinese words and the narrator clearly speaks no Mandarin. He butchers every single pronunciation of Chinese term. Cringe-worthy...
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- Ken Power
- 01-08-2020
Definitely slanted towards the CCP.
The author closes his eyes to the sins of the CCP and takes out a magnifying glass to find every American fault. I can only conclude he is reliant on continued access to China and doesn't want to tick off the censors and officials of the CCP. There is of course a worse possibility - that he actually believes this propaganda.
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- Dave Lee
- 22-03-2021
Kishore is a CCP shill
Kishore Mahbubani is an utter scumbag that's selling out the western democracies for his own gain
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