The global rise of China and the relative strategic decline of the US presents a political challenge that the US has never faced before. To many it is no longer the indispensable nation but an awkward interloper. Meanwhile, America has seen the power of its economic model badly damaged by the 2008 financial crisis. Chinese society is now infused with innovation and dynamism. Most critically, the Chinese people have regained their cultural confidence. In this book, Kishore Mahbubani evaluates the two sides, and shows how China has been thinking on a global scale, launching ambitious initiatives under some of the world's most pragmatic and competent leaders. Who will win this contest? What is at stake? And who will judge the winner? American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's public attacks on China.
American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A leading global public intellectual explains how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.
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