The China Challenge
Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

There’s a quite useful series of books called Physics for Future Presidents. Thomas J. Christensen’s The China Challenge: Shaping the choices of a rising power feels something like a ‘China for future Presidents’. Christensen is well placed to offer such insight. He is a leading scholar on China and......more

This is the last book on my college syllabus... amen to that.......more

Fantastic. Hugely informative on the history, theory and mechanisms that shape current US-China relations. Fun nuggets abound. I'll quote a personal favorite, relating to the importance of the Korean War in maintaining Mao's legitimacy (economic and political leadership disgraced by GLF and CR, resp......more

How does China’s rise fit into the global order? How does China’s relationship within its hemisphere, region, allies and others bear in that order? What does China’s industrialization and appetite for growth mean for the environment? These and other questions are expertly tackled by Christensen, a f......more

The China Challenge by Thomas Christensen is something of a master stroke, deftly identifying and recounting modern Sino-American relations, their associated problems, and approaches to solve them. Much effort is given to understanding China, China's Rise, and what that means for the United States. R......more