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The Contest Of The Century
Geoff Dyer
The New Era of Competition with China--and How America Can Win
Knopf
February 2014
On Sale: February 4, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 0307960757
EAN: 9780307960757
Kindle: B00EGMFRB0
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From the former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief, a
balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition
between China and the United States that will dominate
twenty-first-century world affairs—an inside account of
Beijing’s quest for influence and an explanation of how
America can come out on top. The structure of global politics is shifting rapidly. After
decades of rising, China has entered a new and critical
phase where it seeks to turn its economic heft into global
power. In this deeply informed book, Geoff Dyer makes a
lucid and convincing argument that China and the United
States are now embarking on a great power–style competition
that will dominate the century. This contest will take place
in every arena: from control of the seas, where China’s new
navy is trying to ease the United States out of Asia and
reassert its traditional leadership, to rewriting the rules
of the global economy, with attempts to turn the renminbi
into the predominant international currency, toppling the
dominance of the U.S. dollar. And by investing billions to
send its media groups overseas, Beijing hopes to shift the
global debate about democracy and individual rights. Eyeing
the high ground of international politics, China is taking
the first steps in an ambitious global agenda. Yet Dyer explains how China will struggle to unseat the
United States. China’s new ambitions are provoking intense
anxiety, especially in Asia, while America’s global
influence has deep roots. If Washington can adjust to a
world in which it is no longer dominant but still immensely
powerful, it can withstand China’s challenge. With keen
insight based on a deep local knowledge—offering the reader
visions of coastal Chinese beauty pageants and secret
submarine bases, lockstep Beijing military parades and the
neon media screens of Xinhua exported to New York City’s
Times Square—The Contest of the Century is essential reading
at a time of great uncertainty about America’s future, a
road map for retaining a central role in the world.
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