Are we prepared for a world where power is shared between the West and China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that America currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours?
Here, one of the world’s leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership – as they lay out a roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with the West.
From how, and why, China as a dominant superpower has been inevitable for many years, to how the attempts to fight the old battles are over, Brown digs deeper into the problematic nature of China’s current situation – its treatment of dissent, of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the severe limitations on its management of relations with other cultures and values. These issues impact on the way the West sees China, China sees the West, and how both see themselves.
There are obstacles accepting a place for China in the world – but just because this will be a difficult process does not mean that it should not happen. As Kerry Brown writes: history is indeed ending, but not in the way the West thought it would.
Author(s): Kerry Brown
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 204
City: New York
Cover
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
AN IMPORTANT NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
Chapter One THE THREE KEY THINGS ABOUT CHINA FOR THE MODERN WORLD
Strong China
China as a Sea Power
The Issue of Values
Making Sense of Things: An Initial Conclusion
Chapter Two THE ENIGMA OF CHINESE POWER
Confucius Institutes and the Infiltration of Foreign Universities
China is Buying Us Up
China as a Hard Power
China as a Technological Predator
Neither Guilty nor Innocent: An Unclear Nation seen Unclearly
Chapter Three CHINA AND THE QUESTION OF VALUES
Europe as a Values Superpower
Changing Tack
What Do Chinese Believe?
Chapter Four WHAT DOES THE WORLD WANT FROM CHINA?
What the West Doesn’t Want
What Everyone Wants
Who Are the Complex Ones?
Chapter Five WHAT DOES CHINA WANT FROM THE WORLD?
Getting Rich Together
Unwilling Wants
Assertive Wants
Power without Responsibility
Status
Mirroring Each Other
Chapter Six THE DARK SIDE OF CHINESE POWER
The Lull Before the Storm
Xinjiang – Why It is So Hard to Find Common Ground
The Xinjiang Quandary
Chapter Seven THE GREAT SEPARATION – PART ONE
China Explanation Number One: We are Right: China is Undertaking a Huge Con
China Explanation Number Two: China Has to Democratize
Golden Rule of the Enlightenment West: Always Ten Years Too Late
Dual Circulation – China says ‘We Have Had Enough’
A New Cold War?
Chapter Eight MAKING THE DUAL TRACK WORLD WORK
Moving from the Bungalow
NOTES
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING
INDEX
