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Overreach

How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

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Overreach

By: Susan L. Shirk
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
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For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions.

Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world's most respected experts on Chinese politics, argues that we are now fully embroiled in a new cold war.

As she shows, the shift toward confrontation began in the mid-2000s under the mild-mannered Hu Jintao. When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he capitalized on widespread official corruption and open splits in the leadership to make the case for more concentrated power at the top. Those who implement Xi's directives compete to outdo one another, provoking an even greater global backlash and stoking jingoism within China on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution.

Here is a devastatingly lucid portrait of China today. Understanding the domestic roots of China's actions will enable us to avoid the mistakes that could lead to war.

©2023 Susan L. Shirk (P)2023 Tantor Asia China International Relations Politics & Government World Imperialism Socialism Military Nepal Middle East Russia American Foreign Policy Capitalism
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Like her previous works the author has done an excellent job of portraying the contemporary political landscape of an Leninist regime like china.Her writings since her first famous book “ Fragile Superpower “ had improved significantly.The narrator has done an phenomenal job of keeping the reader engaged.

An eye opener from An experienced China hand

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Interesting review of China’s recent political history. Refreshing break from the US-centric analyses of china’s foreign policy problems. However, the narrator clearly does not speak Chinese and her pronunciation is so bad it’s at times hard to understand who or what she is referring to. It’s very inconsistent — a name might be pronounced correctly in one sentence and unrecognizable in the next. Disappointing. The text deserves to be re-recorded.

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