Stronger, Ryan Hass
Stronger, Ryan Hass
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Stronger
Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence

Author: Ryan Hass

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/09/2021


Synopsis

An examination of the US–China relationship that charts a new path for America focusing on its existing advantages.

Ryan Hass charts a path forward in America's relationship and rivalry with China rooted in the relative advantages America already possesses. Hass argues that while competition will remain the defining trait of the relationship, both countries will continue to be impacted—for good or ill—by their capacity to coordinate on common challenges that neither can solve on its own, such as pandemic disease, global economic recession, climate change, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Hass makes the case that the United States will have greater success in outpacing China economically and outshining it in questions of governance if it focuses more on improving its own condition at home than on trying to impede Chinese initiatives. He argues that the task at hand is not to stand in China's way and turn a rising power into an enemy in the process but to renew America's advantages in its competition with China.

About Ryan Hass

Ryan Hass is the Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and a nonresident affiliated fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hunter on August 25, 2021

Hass speaks to the pressing issues and questions of today's global balance of power, namely US-China great power competition. He comes at the topic as an insider's insider, having sat in on critical meetings with world leaders and private debates within the White House during some pivotal years in t......more

Goodreads review by Chad on November 26, 2022

“Ryan Hass charts a path forward in America's relationship and rivalry with China rooted in the relative advantages America already possesses. Hass argues that while competition will remain the defining trait of the relationship, both countries will continue to be impacted-for good or ill-by their ca......more

Goodreads review by Brian on September 06, 2021

Phenomenal book that adopts a pragmatic approach to evaluating the current US-China relationship and in presenting recommendations for shaping future relations. Hass argues that the current relationship, which is unlikely to change outside of a crisis, is one best described as competitive interdepen......more

Goodreads review by Dennis on January 07, 2022

Stronger: Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence by Ryan Hass is a fairly strong, if overly safe, argument in favor of a more relaxed approach to China. Hass argues that we should not oppose China's rise, not force the world to adopt an adversarial stance against......more