Book review of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin
Josh Rogin wants to “awaken” readers to the character of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Josh Rogin wants to “awaken” readers to the character of the Chinese Communist Party.
More ominously, however, I have recently read Michael Pillsbury’s seminal The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower. This points out that, while for 2,000 years China had no experience of conducting foreign relationships except with minor states which it completely dominated, there was a phase in the distant past when something analogous to the European state system existed. This was the Warring States Period (475–221 BC) when China itself broke up into competing units. After much struggle, one state conquered all the others. A detaile...