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China's World: What Does China Want?
In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertive. Here, award-winning China expert Kerry Brown guides us through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and its increased displays of military prowess - including huge investments in cyber warfare. Brown also assesses China's extraordinary plan to create a `New Silk Road' across Central Asia - one of the biggest infrastructure project in modern history. In doing so he seeks to answer a simple what does China want?
The answer lies in the unique way China thinks about the world. A comprehensive analysis by one of the world's most recognised and respected authorities, and based upon unparalleled research into Chinese leaders, their beliefs and their instincts, China's World is an essential read for the Western world.
The answer lies in the unique way China thinks about the world. A comprehensive analysis by one of the world's most recognised and respected authorities, and based upon unparalleled research into Chinese leaders, their beliefs and their instincts, China's World is an essential read for the Western world.
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243 pages, Hardcover
First published November 28, 2017
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Kerry Brown
83 books77 followersKerry Brown is an author, columnist, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London.
*From Kerry's Website.*: Prior to this he was the Professor of Chinese Politcs and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He led the Europe China Research and Advice Network(ECRAN) funded by the European Union from 2011 to 2014. He is an Associate Fellow on the Asia Programme at Chatham House, London. His main interests are in the politics and society of modern China, in its international relations and its political economy.
Educated at Cambridge (MA), London (Post Graduate Diploma in Chinese with Distinction) and Leeds Universities (Ph D), he worked in Japan and the Inner Mongolian region of China,before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London in 1998. He worked in the China Section and then served as First Secretary, Beijing, from 2000 to 2003, and Head of the Indonesia East Timor Section at the FCO from 2003 to 2005.
Kerry Brown has been published in most major newspapers, commenting on China and Asia, including the New York Times, The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, the South China Morning Post, and the Financial Times. He has also been interviewed since 2006 by the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Bloomberg, ABC and other outlets. He had undertaken consultancy for Mizuho Bank, BP, Oxford Analytica, Hakluyt, Tesco and other corporates.
*From Kerry's Website.*: Prior to this he was the Professor of Chinese Politcs and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He led the Europe China Research and Advice Network(ECRAN) funded by the European Union from 2011 to 2014. He is an Associate Fellow on the Asia Programme at Chatham House, London. His main interests are in the politics and society of modern China, in its international relations and its political economy.
Educated at Cambridge (MA), London (Post Graduate Diploma in Chinese with Distinction) and Leeds Universities (Ph D), he worked in Japan and the Inner Mongolian region of China,before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London in 1998. He worked in the China Section and then served as First Secretary, Beijing, from 2000 to 2003, and Head of the Indonesia East Timor Section at the FCO from 2003 to 2005.
Kerry Brown has been published in most major newspapers, commenting on China and Asia, including the New York Times, The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, the South China Morning Post, and the Financial Times. He has also been interviewed since 2006 by the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Bloomberg, ABC and other outlets. He had undertaken consultancy for Mizuho Bank, BP, Oxford Analytica, Hakluyt, Tesco and other corporates.
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January 8, 2024
The author of this book did not understand the essence at all.
It was General George Marshall who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949.
He convinced Chiang Kai-shek to form a coalition government with the Communist Party.
It was the U.S. that allowed the Chinese Communist Volunteer Army to enter China to help Mao Zedong win.
And China is not a nation, but a marketplace.
China has no natural resources, it's only advantage is a large amount of cheap labor.
China has a 5,000 year history, but has never been a nation-state in the past.
China is ultra-individualistic, where individuals tend to pursue their own personal interests extremely strongly.
The Communist regime maintains a one-party dictatorship through information control and consists of a small privileged class and a large number of exploited people.
The leaders think only of how much they can exploit the people and how much they can increase their own wealth.
The reason China's economy has grown over the past decade is that companies from developed countries relocated their factories to China, resulting in a large influx of foreign currency.
It was the international financial capitalists from Britain and the US, the global deep state, who financed the Chinese market.
They intentionally left the Communist Party behind and made China the factory of the world.
The subtitle of this book, "What Does China Want?"
The answer is that within 2025 the economy will deteriorate and the CNY will collapse.
The wealthy Chinese will move their capital abroad, the Communist dictatorship will end, and China will collapse.
It was General George Marshall who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949.
He convinced Chiang Kai-shek to form a coalition government with the Communist Party.
It was the U.S. that allowed the Chinese Communist Volunteer Army to enter China to help Mao Zedong win.
And China is not a nation, but a marketplace.
China has no natural resources, it's only advantage is a large amount of cheap labor.
China has a 5,000 year history, but has never been a nation-state in the past.
China is ultra-individualistic, where individuals tend to pursue their own personal interests extremely strongly.
The Communist regime maintains a one-party dictatorship through information control and consists of a small privileged class and a large number of exploited people.
The leaders think only of how much they can exploit the people and how much they can increase their own wealth.
The reason China's economy has grown over the past decade is that companies from developed countries relocated their factories to China, resulting in a large influx of foreign currency.
It was the international financial capitalists from Britain and the US, the global deep state, who financed the Chinese market.
They intentionally left the Communist Party behind and made China the factory of the world.
The subtitle of this book, "What Does China Want?"
The answer is that within 2025 the economy will deteriorate and the CNY will collapse.
The wealthy Chinese will move their capital abroad, the Communist dictatorship will end, and China will collapse.
February 26, 2018
An excellent look into how China sees itself and the world in 21st century. This book systematically breaks down the 2016-17 Chinese view of the world, that is essentially broken down into four different zones of interest 1. China-US 2. China & its immediate neighbors 3. China-EU 4. China-South America + Africa. It sheds light on how China applies different lenses while dealing with each of these region, while explaining what strategy/tactics China typically deploys in order to protect its economics or security interests and why.
The book has been very good at separating western media noise hype from the reality of Chinese situation. It also gives a greater sense of clarity and understanding of Chinese foreign policy actions globally, while pointing out its inconsistencies and ambiguities. However there are two areas where I wish the book spent little more time 1. Explaining the China-India equation more deeply (in my opinion it is as fascinating and as world shaping as ‘US-China’ relations in times to come) 2. OBOR and its strategic security/economic implications to the four zones.
If you are interested in understanding ‘The Chinese Threat’ to American Global order better, I would highly recommend reading this book.
The book has been very good at separating western media noise hype from the reality of Chinese situation. It also gives a greater sense of clarity and understanding of Chinese foreign policy actions globally, while pointing out its inconsistencies and ambiguities. However there are two areas where I wish the book spent little more time 1. Explaining the China-India equation more deeply (in my opinion it is as fascinating and as world shaping as ‘US-China’ relations in times to come) 2. OBOR and its strategic security/economic implications to the four zones.
If you are interested in understanding ‘The Chinese Threat’ to American Global order better, I would highly recommend reading this book.
November 18, 2017
a very good overview of China’s foreign policy and the key spheres of influence it tries to develop with its win-win approach. the book brings home that despite its size, China actually has some way to go to be a really allrounded powerful world player.
September 28, 2024
This is an interesting book and has a lot of good information.
October 29, 2024
I didn't read this book but the cover has Taiwan as part of China and that ain't it whitey. Fuck you.
April 4, 2018
A very readable, informative book.
August 6, 2018
no predictions , just facts.. the writer is ambiguous like the rest of us about how china will move and reshape the world as a power in the future
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