And his latest book, Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy, certainly does not disappoint, even though it does not squarely answer the title’s question. He regularly provides readers with provocative insights and fascinating food for thought. Kishore Mahbubani, a diplomat and scholar with unrivalled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington, has written the definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses, and superpower eccentricities, of the US and China. Instead, taking advantage of over three decades of hands-on diplomatic experience, Mahbubani has put forth an unrelentingly realist and highly authoritative book on the twenty-first century’s greatest geopolitical contest. This is also not a book written by a politician to pander to their supporters or voting base. This is not a book written by an armchair expert on U.S.-China relations looking to profit from the animosity between two nations.

“Has China Won? : The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy”, published in 2020, is a crucial guide to understanding the modern U.S.-China relationship and why this relationship has been marred by such hostility in recent times. Namely, that it should maintain spiritual vitality at home, cultivate friends all over the world, not insult its adversary, and be humble.Īmerica prizes freedom China values freedom from chaos.Īmerica values strategic decisiveness China values patience.Īmerica is becoming society of lasting inequality China a meritocracy.Īmerica has abandoned multilateralism China welcomes it. Kishore Mahbubani argues the US has launched a contest with China, while ignoring the advice that geopolitical sage George Kennan gave America during the Cold War.

A massive geopolitical contest has begun. They eye each other warily across the Pacific they communicate poorly there seems little natural empathy. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?Ĭhina and America are world powers without serious rivals. The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US.

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