Susan L. Shirk
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“By leaving a power vacuum in the world’s darkest hour, the United States has bequeathed China ample room to overreach—and to demonstrate that it is unqualified for a position of sole global leadership.”12”
― Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
― Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
“Xi is quite comfortable using China’s huge market power and deep pockets to suck up advanced technologies from abroad and into China. The aim of achieving self-reliance in semi-conductors, batteries, and other crucially important technologies has become increasingly overt. With the hands of the state so obviously orchestrating this massive effort, it is no wonder that China is provoking a backlash in the United States and Europe.”
― Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
― Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
“Wars are caused by misperceptions—one country interpreting the behavior of another in the most threatening terms—as much as by actual conflicts of interest. The risk of misperceptions between China and the United States is heightened because we live in a unipolar world in which the power gap between the dominant power, the United States, and other countries is the largest it has ever been in world history.”
― China: Fragile Superpower
― China: Fragile Superpower
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