The World Turned Upside Down, Clyde Prestowitz
The World Turned Upside Down, Clyde Prestowitz
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The World Turned Upside Down
America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership

Author: Clyde Prestowitz

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 13 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/26/2021


Synopsis

An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted.

When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, most experts expected the WTO rules and procedures would liberalize China and make it "a responsible stakeholder in the liberal world order." But the experts made the wrong bet. China today is liberalizing neither economically nor politically but, if anything, becoming more authoritarian and mercantilist.

In this book, notably free of partisan posturing and inflammatory rhetoric, renowned globalization and Asia expert Clyde Prestowitz describes the key challenges posed by China and the strategies America and the Free World must adopt to meet them. He argues that these must be more sophisticated and more comprehensive than a narrowly targeted trade war. Rather, he urges strategies that the US and its allies can use unilaterally without contravening international or domestic law.

About Clyde Prestowitz

Clyde Prestowitz is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed books Trading Places, Rogue Nation, and Three Billion New Capitalists. He served in the Reagan administration as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce and as a principal trade negotiator for Asia. He was also vice chairman of President Clinton's Commission on Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region. The founder of the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington, D.C., Prestowitz advises governments, global corporations, and labor unions on competitiveness and globalization strategy. He has written hundreds of articles and op-eds in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Economist, and other leading publications over the past twenty-five years based on his experiences both in the corporate world and in government. He lives in Washington, D.C.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cav on March 04, 2022

"Engineering souls is more important than producing tanks..." —Josef Stalin The World Turned Upside Down was an excellent and comprehensive look into the topic. The author drops the above quote at the start of the third chapter. Author Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr is the founder and President of the Economi......more

Goodreads review by Dave on April 22, 2021

Combined this with Henry Kissinger's book "On China" to get an eye-opening understanding of what is happening with China. Great book for the casual reader of history and diplomacy.......more

Goodreads review by Bill on April 13, 2021

I give The World Turned Upside Down by Clyde Prestowitz a 3.5. Very interesting and well-written. Some good proposals for dealing with the real challenges posed by China - these ideas include a serious focus on fixing our own domestic shortcomings. Prestowitz condemns America's voracious consumerism......more