Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise - Susan L. Shirk
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For three decades after Mao’s death in 1976, China’s leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country’s inexorable economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China’s peaceful intentions.
Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world’s most respected experts on Chinese politics, argues that we are now fully embroiled in a new cold war.
As she shows, the shift toward confrontation began in the mid-2000s under the mild-mannered Hu Jintao. When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he capitalized on widespread official corruption and open splits in the leadership to make the case for more concentrated power at the top. Those who implement Xi’s directives compete to outdo one another, provoking an even greater global backlash and stoking jingoism within China on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution.
Here is a devastatingly lucid portrait of China today. Understanding the domestic roots of China’s actions will enable us to avoid the mistakes that could lead to war.
©2023 Susan L. Shirk (P)2023 Tantor
Oxford University Press
Susan L. Shirk is a Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. Shirk is the author of China: Fragile Superpower, and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. From 1997-2000, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 3.3/5
May 11th, 2023
Has China started any wars? Has China invaded and occupied other countries?
May 11th, 2023
@abb9632: Mongolia in 1919, South Korea in 1950, Tibet in 1959, Vietnam in 1979.
May 11th, 2023
Wow, here comes yet another white American person to tell the rest of us about how bad we all are, surprise surprise….
All governments are full of crap and should not be trusted, but we all know who the TRUE fascist empire is…
May 11th, 2023
@Gweilo. Recent wars. The past 20 years or so. Almost every country has started wars if you go back far enough. You know who is the most war mongering country on the planet in the past 20 years.
May 11th, 2023
@koloko - I am a white American and I recognize and admit that the USA has become an evil nation.
May 11th, 2023
The smell of wumao still reach this corner
May 11th, 2023
the smell of western propaganda is disgusting
May 11th, 2023
Thanks for the upload.I’ll listen to it, but the premise doesn’t seem credible to me.
This is how stupid things are these days.Believe all you’re told, and anybody offering a different opinion, like China’s got no intention of taking over the world, can be dismissed with some kneejerk term like ‘wumao’. Whatever TF that means.
May 11th, 2023
“China’s got no intention of taking over the world?” - What are you on about, Wobbly1933? Why the desperate red herring? Are you trying (again) to distract from the ongoing genocide? Or the suffering of the people (”inmates”) of Hong Kong; those whose organs have been harvested; those who have been “disappeared;” those who have been helped away for “re-education;” all who are silenced, brutally repressed; the incessant ideological war upon their own people & those they annexed, etc. etc.
But none of that is happening, is it, Wobbly? Merely because the regime permits “tourism” - your “killer” argument. Genocide denial doesn’t get any stupider than that.
Clearly, not only will you not listen to/understand the book, you have again not read/understood the description. A recurring habit, it would seem.
And each time your tankie ass-ertions are refuted, there’s the panicky pivot to “WhataboutAmerica!”
“Believe all you’re told” of that which emanates from “credible” Putin state media sources, and blame Ukrainian victims for the suffering inflicted upon them. Your standard prop bot fare…
Why never any scepticism in that direction? Would that constitute a bot malfunction for you?
May 12th, 2023
@abb9632 “recent wars”. Wumao just have to whatabout and move the goalposts. I guess we must forget about Tiananmen in 1989 and the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward are lost in thew mists of time.
Anyway, When China stops using the Opium Wars in the 1840s and the Japanese invasion in the 1930s to beat the nationalist drum, we can forget about its many invasions.
More recently then, in 1997 it effectively occupied Hong Kong, legally, but against the wishes of at least 80% of the population, with the implicit (and sometimes explicit) threat of force. And is currently repeatedly threatening to invade Taiwan, and has occupied and militarised numerous islands in the South China Sea claimed by countries much closer to them.
No country is lily pure, but GTFO trying to claim China is not an aggressor, and under Xi is becoming the world’s 2nd military superpower.
May 12th, 2023
How many countries has China bombed back to 1800 like the US has with WMD free Iraq & Afghanistan, Syria……..take a look at the list.
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*List of Atrocities committed by US authorities*
Definition: An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.
“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.” - Nelson Mandela
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html
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When you add US dept of war employees - 747,809 (civilian) 1,344,330 (active duty military) 778,096 (National Guard and reserve) 2,870,235 total (June 2022)
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plus all the war industry contractors plus those companies who sell material & services to them…..
What’s clear is that if peace broke out overnight the Empire would go broke within a week.
US Empire has over 800 military bases all over the world - how many does China have? China has not been the global bully my entire life - the American Empire has.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not pro China. I’m anti BS empire propaganda.
May 12th, 2023
@apnea: got any more whataboutism?
Whatabout sticking to the topic, which is China? e.g. Tibet, where after invading in 1959, they are importing millions of Han Chinese to dispossess the Tibetans, making their language and religion effectively illegal. Destroying monasteries, imprisoning monks, dictating who can become religious leaders..
If we’re listing random atrocities committed by other countries, that is a very long list, currently headed by Russia I think. But in any case, TOTALLY IRRELEVANT AND DOES NOT EXCUSE WHAT CHINA IS DOING.
May 14th, 2023
This book has a very low rating and substance, but it has a large audience that is eager for that kind of irrationality.
Fear of China is more visceral, drawing from the deep racist currents that have poisoned American society since its origins. In the 19th century, Chinese people were kidnapped and brought to work as virtual slaves to build railroads as the nation expanded to its “natural borders”; the slur that was applied to them “coolie” was an import from Britain, where Chinese workers also served as virtual slave laborers generating Britain’s wealth. Chinese people who tried to settle were subjected to vicious racist attacks. Chinese laborers were banned entry for 10 years in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, and Chinese were banned entirely in the racist 1924 immigration act.
Yellow Peril hysteria was reawakened in the 1950s, after China’s stunning defeat of MacArthur’s army in Korea. The fears resonate often, ranging widely in nature. At one level, Lyndon Johnson warned that without superior air power, unless we stop “them” in Vietnam, “they” will sweep over us and take all “we” have. At another level, the U.S. is laboring day and night to reconstruct collapsing infrastructure and the crucial chip industry, not because the U.S. needs them but to overcome the challenge of China’s development.
“China’s got no intention of taking over the world” This would be difficult to comprehend to biased minds.
May 15th, 2023
@Loewe “Fear of China is more visceral, drawing from the deep racist currents”.
Maybe for some. For myself, it comes from having lived in China for 20 years and seeing how the CCP has destroyed Hong Kong’s freedom and spirit with ever escalating intolerance and ultimately violence, while the military grows every year and Xi rattles his sabre evermore loudly as he ramps up the nationalistic rhetoric. Maybe having China repeatedly threaten to nuke your home country might make you consider that white bigotry is not the only reason to fear China.
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