Haunted by Chaos: Chinas Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to XI Jinping, with a New Afterword
Haunted by Chaos: Chinas Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to XI Jinping, with a New Afterword An American Interest Book of the Year "Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act…
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Haunted by Chaos: Chinas Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to XI Jinping, with a New Afterword
An American Interest Book of the Year "Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do." --Robert D. Today it dominates the global stage, and yet its leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. Kaplan "An outstanding contribution to our understanding of that most urgent of contemporary geopolitical questions: what does China want?" --Rana MitterBefore the Chinese Communist Party came to power, China lay broken and fragmented.
At once shrewd and dangerous, Mao Zedong made China whole and succeeded in keeping it so while the caustic Deng Xiaoping dragged China into the modern world. Analyzing the calculus behind decision making at the highest levels, Sulmaan Wasif Khan explores how China's leaders have harnessed diplomatic, military, and economic power to keep a fragile country safe in a hostile world.