"Friedberg's book is less a call to action and more a series of increasingly probative questions and macro-observations that seek to determine whether American policy towards China has grown complacent and, if so, whether we have considered the mid and long-term implications of our complacency.
In this way, Friedberg's work echoes a similar question asked by James Mann in his bookThe China Fantasy where Mann asked whether American policy makers had really questioned how comfortable they would be with a rich and powerful, but thoroughly totalitarian-socialist, China. Both authors clearly have their own opinions on how the United States would respond to such a possibility, and both equally worry that America's leaders will only address the question when it is too late to change China or prevent the two countries from colliding into one another"...................................READ MORE
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