China vs America: A Warning

Oliver Letwin

ISBN 10: 1785906844 / ISBN 13: 9781785906848

Published by Biteback Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2021

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China's rise as a global superpower has completely reshaped the landscape of international politics. As the country's authoritarian regime becomes increasingly assertive on the world stage, the United States grows ever more hostile to its Asian rival. Repressive moves by China in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, military activities in the South China Sea and Western measures against Chinese companies have only exacerbated tensions. While the great powers of East and West battle over hegemony, the world is being led inexorably towards a new Cold War. During his time as a Cabinet minister attending National Security Council meetings, Oliver Letwin realised that there was no agreement among Western politicians and academics on how to conduct a peaceful long-term relationship with China. China vs America traces the contours of history, both ancient and modern, to explain how China has emerged as a challenger to American power in the twenty-first century and why this has created such uneasiness in the West. In this robust and controversial assessment, Letwin argues that the international rules-based order is completely ill equipped to foster a positive relationship between China and the United States and that the global community must act now to correct the collision course these two behemoths are currently on before it's too late. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: China vs America: A Warning
• Publisher: Biteback Publishing, United Kingdom, London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785906844
• ISBN 13: 9781785906848
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 481 grams

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Synopsis

As a Cabinet minister attending meetings of the UK’s National Security Council, Oliver Letwin took a profound interest in our relationship with China. So much of the discussion of world events inevitably turns into a debate about the attitudes and intentions of Beijing. But the more Letwin became involved in such discussions, the clearer it became to him that there was an absence of any settled Western strategy for conducting a peaceful long-term relationship with China.

With China’s authoritarian market socialist regime becoming increasingly assertive, and with the authorities in Washington becoming progressively hostile towards the growth of Chinese power, the world is now in a much more precarious state than it was a decade ago, and the situation is only going to deteriorate. Recent repressive moves by China in Hong Kong and Chinese military activities in the South China Sea have only served to heighten tensions, exacerbated too by concerns in the West about China’s lack of transparency in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic and by increasing Western measures directed against Chinese companies such as Huawei.

China vs America traces the contours of history, both ancient and modern, to explain how China has emerged as a challenger to American power in the twenty-first century and the discomfort that this is causing in the West. This book is a powerful call to correct the collision course on which the great powers of the world are currently embarked before it is too late.

About the Author

Oliver Letwin was the British Member of Parliament for West Dorset from 1997 to 2019. He was a member of the UK’s National Security Council from 2010 to 2016, during which time he played a central role in developing the UK’s policy on China and India. Since leaving office, he has been vice-president of the Great Britain–China Centre, a fellow of the Legatum Institute, and a visiting professor at the King’s College London Policy Institute, where he chairs the Project for Peaceful Competition (a global academic network promoting scholarly dialogue about the management of global power relationships). He holds master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge and has been Procter Fellow at Princeton University, Charles and Katharine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, and a visiting professor at the University of Reading.