The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power Audiobook (Free)

This compelling assessment of U. S.-China relations is vital reading for anyone interested in the continuing future of the globalized globe.

Many see China’s rise like a threat towards the U. S. command in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues rather that the true challenge is based on dissuading China from local aggression while eliciting its global cooperation. Drawing on decades of scholarship or grant and experience like a senior diplomat, Christensen gives a deep perspective on China’s armed forces and about The China Challenge: Shaping the options of a Increasing Power economic capability. Assessing China’s political outlook and strategic goals, Christensen displays how nationalism as well as the threat of local instability impact the party’s decisions about regional global affairs. If China obstructs international attempts to confront nuclear proliferation, civil issues, financial instability, and climate change, those initiatives will probably fail; but if China simply declines to support such efforts, the issues will grow vastly more complicated.

Articulating a well balanced strategic approach along with perceptive historical analysis, Christensen describes how exactly we might shape China’s choices in the coming decades so that it contributes to the international system from which in benefits a lot.