The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China - Rilegato

Dyer, Geoff

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ISBN 10: 1846146658 ISBN 13: 9781846146657

Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2014

Riassunto

By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. With its new navy, China is trying to ease the US out of Asia and re-assert its traditional leadership in the region. Beijing plans to turn the renminbi into the main international currency, toppling the dominance of the US dollar. And by investing billions to send its media companies overseas, it aims to contest Western values and shift the global debate about democracy and human rights.

If globalisation has been the driving force of the past few decades, Geoff Dyer argues that a more traditional great power-style competition between the US and China will dominate this century. Yet he also shows why China may struggle to unseat the West - its ambitious designs are provoking intense anxiety, especially in Asia, while America's global alliances have deep roots. If Washington can adjust to a world in which it is no longer the sole dominant power, it may be able to retain its ability to set the global agenda in the face of China's challenge.

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An intriguing riposte to the received view that the rise of the East signals the decline of the West (The Times)

The Contest of the Century is a perfect antidote to all the noise that passes for journalism these days. Here is a seasoned foreign correspondent calmly taking the measure of Asia's pivotal giant (Robert Caplan, chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, author of The Revenge of Geography)

The Contest of the Century is a colorful and compelling read that offers three crucial insights. America's relationship with China will define the 21st century. Their relations will be far more subtle and dynamic than post-Cold War conventional wisdom suggests. There is nothing inevitable about either China's rise or the outcome of the two countries' competition. This is a fascinating story from an experienced journalist who knows how to tell it (Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group and author of Every Nation for Itself)

L'autore:

Geoff Dyer is an award-winning journalist and the FT's former Beijing bureau chief. Now in the Washington DC bureau, he writes about American foreign policy. A former Fulbright scholar, he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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• Editore: Allen Lane
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1846146658
• ISBN 13: 9781846146657
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320