Getting China Wrong

This book is several books in one. If you have any interest in our developing issues with China and the Communist Party of China - this is a must to read carefully. The first section is a good short history of American foreign policy mega assumptions including the attempts over several generations t......more

Friedberg's characterization of Xi Jinping's China as a revisionist state intent on besting the United States and dominating its region is largely valid and uncontroversial. However, a few thoughts throughout caused me to pause or scratch my head at times. My first reaction when starting this book wa......more

To much time for too few ideas. Have you followed China for some time? So no need to read it. 1) The book is not fluid to read. Each idea is repeated multiple times and things that coud be expressed in one word is expressed with three expressions. It looks like the author wants to sound erudite rath......more

The premise of this book is that the general assumption that China would liberalise politically due to deepening economic engagement with the West was wrong, and this should have been seen as early as the late 1980s and certainly after the Tiananmen Square massacre there was no doubt that this was w......more

Friedberg provides a succinct and compelling account of how the U.S. failed to liberalize China’s political and economic systems by granting China’s entrance into the global economy through WTO membership. He gives appropriate credit to the CCP for thwarting liberalization within China as the countr......more