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The Long Game
- China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.
Taking listeners behind the Party's closed doors, he uncovers Beijing's long, methodical game to displace America from its hegemonic position in both the East Asia regional and global orders through three sequential "strategies of displacement." Beginning in the 1980s, China focused for two decades on "hiding capabilities and biding time." After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, it became more assertive regionally, following a policy of "actively accomplishing something." Finally, in the aftermath populist elections of 2016, China shifted to an even more aggressive strategy for undermining US hegemony, adopting the phrase "great changes unseen in century."
After charting how China's long game has evolved, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet asymmetric plan for an effective US response. Ironically, his proposed approach takes a page from Beijing's own strategic playbook to undermine China's ambitions and strengthen American order without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan.
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- Bradley Perrett
- 31-12-2022
Better to read it rather than listened to it
I found this important book to be too dense to absorb properly by listening to it, even when doing mentally undemanding things such as walking. Soon after beginning to listen to it, I realized that I would have to read a printed copy.
The performance by the reader was unsatisfactory, particularly because of lazy mispronunciation: ‘bedder innernational stradegy’.
Also, he was not properly instructed in the difficult matter of Mandarin pronunciation, with the result that many of the Chinese names and phrases he read out sounded like neither the original Chinese nor a natural approximation using English syllables. (The latter would have been most suitable.) Although I speak Chinese, I often had no idea of what he was trying to pronounce.
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- Hamish B
- 17-03-2022
Interesting but repetitive
This is a very interesting and important book. The scope of its analysis is impressive. However the listening is monotone and the text is oddly repetitive.
Be prepared to hear a thesis of the shaping of the modern world, hidden beneath hearing the exact same ideas over and over and over.
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- Christopher Deeble
- 09-03-2022
Fascinating (but needs an editor)
This is the result of an impressive piece of scholarship and has many great insights.
There is, however, far too much repetition - especially of CCCP slogans. I was almost hypnotised by the chanting. And unfortunately the halting narration made the style even worse.
This book really needs a good editor. It could be great.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-04-2022
A text book.. Not a bòk to.read
An importantabt book to study. impossible to enjoy from listening, but compulsory study text gor government.
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