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Has China Won?

The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

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Has China Won?

By: Kishore Mahbubani
Narrated by: Aaron Abano
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 From a former President of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century

“Mahbubani has written an excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will the relationship between the US and China evolve?” —Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.

Has China Won? is the definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of these ambitious and eccentric superpowers. Asia Politics & Government World China Tariff Russia Imperial Japan War Taxation

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Praise for Has China Won?
"Americans should heed Kishore Mahbubani's astringent advice, unwelcome as it may be: Cast away illusions about eternal U.S. primacy and exceptional virtue protected by high walls. Instead, Washington should adopt a long-term international strategy anchored in balance and cooperation; reestablish sound internal leadership and governance; win friends abroad instead of driving allies away; avoid over-commitment; and express moral modesty. Military power is not the most important weapon in the Arsenal of Democracy."—David M. Lampton : Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins-SAIS.
"China and the US are locked in a struggle for international primacy, and the result of this contest will shape the world order for generations to come. Kishore captures the complexity of this battle with the measured nuance and clear insight it deserves. Not to be missed."—Ian Bremmer, author of Us vs. Them and president, Eurasia Group
"Kishore Mahbubani's Has China Won? is a serious contribution: reviewing strategic wisdom from Kennan to Kennedy, asking provocative, even heretical questions about China's rise, and counseling a world safe for diversity."—Graham Allison, author of Destined For War: Can America and China escape Thucydides's Trap, is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard University
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Most relevant
Required reading and a very well balanced book in light of the incessant propaganda and disinformation coming from the western countries, as it stands in 2020. China is reclaiming it’s place in the world, they are doing so pragmatically and peacefully, with the world returning to millennia-long equilibrium in the 21st century.

Required reading and well balanced

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A much needed discussion that intertwines history, politics, psychology, and philosophy with political opinions of all sides.

I feel more could have been said about China's poverty alleviation, revolutionary appeal it had amongst the working classes and minorities of the West, China's sponsorship of the Taliban alongside the USA-CIA during the Sino-Soviet split, Maoist revolutionaries in India and the Philippines causing havoc amidst the poverty and corruption caused by Western-styled economics. I believe Kishore is more pro-Western and bypasses the issue of class which has been a historical fact of time immemorial.

Nevertheless, as Western civilisation and its citizens are unaware of China's complexity and its phenomenal rise, and even are fearful of mentioning the facts and analysing things in a rational and logical way - Kishore Mahbubani does a wonderful job exposing what is missing in the uninformed Western mentality.

Amazing insight into China's rise and future

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If you can suffer the writers bias and weed through the usual liberal hyperbole it is worth the read.

The writer is pro China and anti American and believes the biggest existential threats to the human race are Donald Trump and Climate change.

Biased but thought provoking

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This books is so one-sided it’s not funny.

The book is full of Chinese words and the narrator clearly speaks no Mandarin. He butchers every single pronunciation of Chinese term. Cringe-worthy...

Awful. Chinese propaganda dressed up as academic prose.

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Kishore Mahbubani is an utter scumbag that's selling out the western democracies for his own gain

Kishore is a CCP shill

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The author closes his eyes to the sins of the CCP and takes out a magnifying glass to find every American fault. I can only conclude he is reliant on continued access to China and doesn't want to tick off the censors and officials of the CCP. There is of course a worse possibility - that he actually believes this propaganda.

Definitely slanted towards the CCP.

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