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HAS CHINA WON?
The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
A leading global public intellectual explains how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.
In this book, Kishore Mahbubani evaluates the two sides, and shows how China has been thinking on a global scale, launching ambitious initiatives under some of the world's most pragmatic and competent leaders. Most critically, the Chinese people have regained their cultural confidence. Chinese society is now infused with innovation and dynamism. Meanwhile, America has seen the power of its economic model badly damaged by the 2008 financial crisis. To many it is no longer the indispensable nation but an awkward interloper.
The global rise of China and the relative strategic decline of the US presents a political challenge that the US has never faced before. American policymakers must shake off their complacency and launch a major strategic reboot of both domestic and foreign policies that have weakened the nation's social foundations and global standing. Otherwise, the start-up nation, barely 250 years old, with only a quarter of China's population, cannot expect to defeat the world's oldest continuous civilization. With his trademark candor, Mahbubani delivers impartial and incisive insights on the strategic stakes and mistakes in this new great game.
Kishore Mahbubani, a professor in the practice of public policy at the National University of Singapore, has had two distinguished careers, 33 years in diplomacy, and 15 years in academia, when he was the founding dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He lived in New York for over ten years as Singapore's Ambassador to the UN. In 2019, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is globally recognized as Asia's leading public intellectual. He has authored several books, among them Can Asians Think?, Has the West Lost It? The New Asian Hemisphere, The Great Convergence, and Beyond the Age of Innocence (the last 3 all PublicAffairs). He travels extensively and lives in Singapore.
The global rise of China and the relative strategic decline of the US presents a political challenge that the US has never faced before. American policymakers must shake off their complacency and launch a major strategic reboot of both domestic and foreign policies that have weakened the nation's social foundations and global standing. Otherwise, the start-up nation, barely 250 years old, with only a quarter of China's population, cannot expect to defeat the world's oldest continuous civilization. With his trademark candor, Mahbubani delivers impartial and incisive insights on the strategic stakes and mistakes in this new great game.
Kishore Mahbubani, a professor in the practice of public policy at the National University of Singapore, has had two distinguished careers, 33 years in diplomacy, and 15 years in academia, when he was the founding dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He lived in New York for over ten years as Singapore's Ambassador to the UN. In 2019, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is globally recognized as Asia's leading public intellectual. He has authored several books, among them Can Asians Think?, Has the West Lost It? The New Asian Hemisphere, The Great Convergence, and Beyond the Age of Innocence (the last 3 all PublicAffairs). He travels extensively and lives in Singapore.
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Published 2020-03-21 by Public Affairs |