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" The riveting and mostly untold story about the battle for financial and technological power and mastery between the West and China over the last decade. Since China joined the WTO in December 2001, the West has been developing ever closer business and political ties. China's hosting of the Olympcis Games and its economic leadership in 2008 as the world faced recession were signs that China's new power and wealth would herald greater global prosperity for all. But that era is over. ,br〉What was the cause of this rupture, leading China expert Andrew Small asks and what does it mean for the future? Using his deep access to the leading players in the story, Small dramatizes the intense political battles over the introduction of 5G to show how China and the West have spilt and how those abstract geopolitical rivalries translate into our daily lives&mdash,he phones we all use, the hidden wiring of the economy, and who controls it. ,br〉 ,br〉Written with extraordinary insider access, Small's story ranges from deep inside the bowels of the Pentagon to Indian Ocean naval bases, and ,rom the boardrooms of the world&rsquo, leading technology firms to the Taliban leadership in Kabul. ,he result is an engaging, lucid and even-handed account of the defining geopolitical issue of our age, and a clarion call for us to recognize the true nature of China&rsquo, global ambitions."
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Biographisches: "Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and an associate senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. His previous book, The China-Pakistan Axis(Oxford University Press, 2015) was widely praised, including in the New York Review of Books, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, Prospect magazine and the Asian Review of Books (see below). Andrew is an experienced public speaker and has appeared frequently on broadcast interviews, and will be an excellent and committed spokesperson for his book." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 12, 2022 China is challenging the West’s economic, military, and political power, as well as its democratic vision for humanity, according to this insightful study. Foreign policy analyst Small ( The China-Pakistan Axis ) sketches the history of U.S.–China relations since 2001, when Beijing slashed tariffs and opened major industries to foreign competition in order to enter into the World Trade Organization. The optimism Western democracies felt about partnering with China has dimmed, however, as giant tech Huawei began to dominate the 5G market in recent years. Small notes that the West was just beginning to coalesce against China’s anticompetitive behavior when Covid-19 broke out in Wuhan. Despite the E.U. providing nearly 60 metric tons of medical material to China, Beijing launched a disinformation campaign alleging that the virus originated in the U.S. or Italy. China also took advantage of the crisis to rush Hungary into a “highly contentious railway deal that the E.U. had been trying to block” and ignored Western entreaties to refrain from actively supporting Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. According to Small, Chinese officials were impressed with Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and believe that a Sino-Russian alliance will boost China’s global position. Detailed and clear-sighted, this is a valuable report on a consequential global rivalry." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 15, 2022 A longtime China watcher takes a close look at the country's ambitions, attitudes, and ruthless diplomatic and economic methods. When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, many policymakers believed the nation would become an honest trading partner and responsible global citizen. Now, however, the Chinese government is viewed as secretive, belligerent, and wildly ambitious. Whereas most of the world treats globalization as a framework for trade and growth, China apparently sees it as the basis for a hierarchy with itself as the dominant force. How, asks Small, who has worked for a range of policy think tanks, did this transition happen? He follows a number of connected themes, although he sees a major trigger in the attempts of the Beijing-backed firm Huawei to establish 5G infrastructure around the world, using it as a means of control. Australia was the first country to reject Huawei, and others followed. China responded with insults and threats of retaliation, which cemented its reputation as a bully. European governments had also become aware that China was buying up critical infrastructure assets and companies in other countries. Another issue was China's complete rejection of any responsibility for the Covid-19 pandemic despite mounting evidence that it had started there. As the Chinese government's growing self-confidence has bled into hubris, and as the polished, pragmatic heirs of Zhou Enlai have made way for diplomatic thugs, writes Small, the clarity of the challenge posed by China has sharpened. Though China has bought a few allies with financial aid, notes the author, there is no underlying trust. Meanwhile, anti-China coalitions are building. Beijing's methods have created the very situation it feared: everyone against it. Some of the ground in the book has already been covered, but Small does a good job tying the threads together and providing historical context, making for a comprehensive, if worrying, text. Small ably traces how China went from partner to rival to threat and maps out the challenges that it now poses for the West. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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