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Amerika tegen China - De nieuwe Koude Oorlog?

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China wordt steeds mondiger en agressiever. Het streeft economische en territoriale expansie na en de VS zijn de enige macht die niet aarzelt om daar tegen in te gaan, al dan niet met de hulp van bereidwillige bondgenoten. Zo luidt, kort samengevat, het verhaal dat we elke dag horen en lezen in de officiële berichtgeving. Maar klopt het ook? In Amerika tegen China. De nieuwe Koude Oorlog? zet historicus en China-deskundige Jude Woodward een en ander in perspectief. Ze gaat uit van de krijtlijnen die Obama uitzette en die zijn opvolger Trump heeft overgenomen: Washington moet en zal de onbetwiste leider van Azië en de rest van de wereld blijven. Met dat doel voor ogen zijn de VS bezig aan een omsingeling van China. Verbazend, zegt u? Wacht tot u Woodwards analyses over het uitlokken van handelsconflicten en -oorlogen leest. En ja, ook over de mogelijkheid van een grootschalige militaire confrontatie.

Een relaas over ideologie, media, diplomatie en wapens, maar ook over de bondgenootschappen van gisteren en van morgen, en over de rol van Rusland, India, Japan en Australië.

Oorspronkelijke titel: The US vs China: Asia’s New Cold War? Manchester University Press, 2017.
Vertaald door Tineke Jager en Dirk Nimmegeers.

440 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2017

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416 reviews445 followers
May 10, 2020
The US vs China: Asia’s new Cold War? provides a timely, thorough and accessible path to understanding the US-China confrontation, which is surely the most significant dynamic in global politics today. In just 260 pages, the author is able to give a surprisingly detailed account of China’s rise, the different threads of US opposition to that rise, and the multitude of devices being employed by the US in its bid to see off the Asian challenge and secure a ‘new American century’. Woodward counsels that it would be far better for the US to change its anti-China stance, promote peace and accept a role in a new, multipolar world order. Excellent advice. But “whom the gods would destroy they first make mad”.
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April 14, 2019
I was hoping to read a pro china view on the tensions between the US and China. Unfortunately this books is more anti-American. Because of this bias, some of the valid points are not as convincing as they could be. By omitting some part of the story (How can one write about Xinjiang and not mention surveillance and far reaching counter-terrorism) , the bias of the author dilutes in my view the core message of the book.
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224 reviews32 followers
February 4, 2025
based and Chinapilled! great and informative. you really get a good amount of information about US imperialism and the US being a homewrecking whore and getting between China’s relations with other countries. the US is ALWAYS involved with something against China! anyway, i feel that everyone should read this.
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February 10, 2019
I suspect that the author has been paid by the CPC to write this book. The author just repeated what the Chinese officials have said. The main point is that the decline of US power in the Asia Pacific is inevitable, since China will outgrow the US (has done?) economically. Apart from the US strategy of control and hegemony, China’s rise will be a truly peaceful and mutually beneficial one. Although US is trying to organize a containment of China by the neighboring nations of China, it will not succeed since those countries cannot resist the benefit of trading and collaborating with China, which the US cannot match, due to the fading economic and financial power. Considering what happened in 2018, one should doubt that if China will really outgrow the US. So the basic foundation of this book is questionable now...
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June 8, 2022
Helder, compleet, essentieel. Lezen!
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147 reviews
August 10, 2025
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Ik gaf dit boek een 5 toen ik het zes jaar geleden las. Ik denk nu nog altijd dat het een goed overzicht biedt van de internationale relaties van China en ook dat het een tegengewicht vormt vis-à-vis sommige westerse bronnen, zeker degene geschreven door 'war hawks'. Je steekt er niet alleen dingen uit op over China, maar ook over de politiek van landen zoals Zuid-Korea. Maar de sterke pro-Chinese bias en de hardnekkige neiging om de officiële CCP-retoriek op haar woord te geloven doen afbreuk aan het evenwicht.

Je kunt genuanceerd tegenover China staan zonder je in bochten te wringen om elke misstand goed te praten. Amerika tegen China is het soort boek dat tof is voor lezers die op voorhand precies weten welke boodschappen ze al dan niet willen horen. Sterke 3,5
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September 21, 2023
Erg boeiend wat betreft de buitenlandpolitiek van de VS. China wordt afgeschilderd als een heilige, wat helemaal niet geloofwaardig is en waardoor het nogal zwart wit wordt. Er zit weinig verandering in de hoofdstukken waardoor het op den duur begint te vervelen.
13 reviews
May 3, 2021
Interesting argumentation pin pointing many of America’s mistakes and shortcomings, but falling in for the unrealistic argument of a China rising as a benevolent power
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15 reviews
May 28, 2020
This is one of the first books I read on Chinese geopolitical issues. The book gets really interesting after Chapter 4 which analyzes the individual issues about Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, the South China Sea, and Central Asia. I personally have experienced some of the events mentioned in this book (I am a Chinese), like the Diaoyu Island dispute (I was in high school when this happened. I remember following the news the entire day when 22 activists set sail to the islands) and the conflict with South China Sea Arbitration between China and Philippines. This book really gives me a better understanding of why and how these things happened. The aggressive measures that the US has taken to "pivot to Asia" is really surprising to me. They are willing to destabilize and escalate the conflicts deliberately to remain influential in Asia while China is trying to reach mutual understanding.

I will definitely read more about these issues.
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1 review2 followers
May 20, 2020
Comprehensive and concise, Woodward’s The US VS China is a wonderful, erudite analysis of multipolarization in the wake of declining US economic and imperial hegemony.
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