Challenging China

Smart Strategies for Dealing with China in the Xi Jinping Era

By: Sam Kaplan

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Hardcover | 1 June 2021

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224 Pages

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Expertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage.

This book provides a fascinating insider's look at how China is changing rapidly today, how these changes pose grave risks to the rest of the world, and how the U.S. and its allies can best address these challenges. Trade wars and U.S. presidents may come and go, but the fundamental dynamics of the U.S.-China relationship will remain in place for years to come.

Challenging China is a popular current events explanation of how China has become more authoritarian and expansionist and what strategies the U.S. and its allies need to adopt to address this new China. Although delving into serious issues, Challenging China is written in an engaging way and probably the only book on China that references Dolly Parton, LeBron James and Bruce Springsteen.

Topics addressed include:

The ongoing political crackdown in Hong Kong and heightened tensions with Taiwan
The deteriorating human rights situation in China for normal Chinese as well as the Uyghur and Tibetan minorities
Internal Chinese political and social dynamics and Xi Jinping's dominance of the party
China's ongoing sense of anti-Western grievance and its new military assertiveness
Increases in censorship and governmental control of dissent both off and online
The effects of U.S. trade policy on China including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trump's tariff wars, and the new U.S.-China Trade Agreement
How and why U.S. responses up to now have been ineffectual and counterproductive
Climate change policy and how cooperating with China can work if we want it to
New strategies to convince China to modify its behaviour while avoiding direct confrontation
And much more!

About the Author

Sam Kaplan has worked with and in China for over thirty years in a variety of roles. As president of the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, he organized numerous trade and business missions to China and hosted countless delegations, business people, and government officials from China. He was a key member of the host committees for the visits of both President Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping to Seattle. He publishes a weekly e-newsletter, "International Need to Know," and has been published in a variety of publications, including the World Bank's Urban Age magazine.

Kaplan lives in the Seattle area.

Industry Reviews

'In Challenging China, Sam Kaplan provides a richly detailed, compelling essay on [Chinese leadership's] growing penchant toward authoritarianism, its impact on the people of China and its relations with the U.S. This book is a must-read, whether your focus is on China's military, its economy, Taiwan, Tibet, and/or its relationship with the U.S.'
Joe Borich Former Consul General of U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, Former President of Washington State China Relations Council

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