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Danger Zone
- The Coming Conflict with China
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Publisher's Summary
It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon." Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint?
The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century. But both history and China's current trajectory suggest that this rivalry will reach its moment of maximum danger in the 2020s.
China is at a perilous moment: strong enough to violently challenge the existing order, yet losing confidence that time is on its side. Witness its aggression toward Taiwan, its record-breaking military buildup, and its efforts to dominate the critical technologies that will shape the world's future.
The Chinese challenge will most likely prove more manageable than many pessimists currently believe—but during the 2020s, the pace of Sino-American conflict will accelerate, and the prospect of war will be frighteningly real. America, Brands and Beckley argue, will still need a sustainable approach to winning a protracted global competition.
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- chad
- 2023-04-09
Great thsesis well presented and convincing
Recommend. Good summary of china history. Up to me to keep reading to validate the accuracy of what I read. But the strategy presented appears logical and well reshearched. Can’t wait to keep learning.
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- Joel Allan
- 2022-12-08
Great book
Highly recommended read. Provides some disturbing and relevant insights to our current world situation. Hopefully we can get through the danger zone
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- Albert Boucher
- 2023-11-30
The narration.
Terrible synthesized computer voice, made it difficult to listen to with mispronounced words, lack of feeling in the oration.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2024-07-22
China bad West good
total lack of nuance. typical China hawk that fails to recognize the hypocrisy of her statements. there's a lot of good info here but the context is misleading
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