Everything under the heavens
by Howard W. French · first published 2017
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For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understa
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I found Everything Under the Heavens to be rather enlightening. https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Under-Heavens-Chinas-Globa...
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on “China’s assault on Cathay Pacific” ↗…what the tin says but also how bureaucratic promotion and governance within China works. For geopolitics I thought Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century, * Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power, and The Rise of Eurasia* both had some value but I didn't find them as enlightening as the previous two. EDIT: Oh, and China Airborne had some…
on “China’s assault on Cathay Pacific” ↗