Partners and Rivals
The Uneasy Future of China's Relationship with the United States
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- $37.99
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- $37.99
Publisher Description
Until the global financial crisis, China was thought to be decades away from overtaking the United States as the world’s largest economy. But while the US skirted economic stagnation, China was able to successfully navigate the crisis, and its growth continues to accelerate. Has the time arrived to re-evaluate our assumptions about the current world order? Will China openly contest the United States’ status, unchallenged since the Second World War, as a world leader? Will conflict be inevitable, or would its costs be unthinkable in a globalized world economy?
Partners and Rivals, the latest book from acclaimed economist Wendy Dobson, examines the central role that China and the United States will play on the global stage in the next half-century. Dobson provides a balanced and accessibly written understanding of China’s domestic challenges, as well as an analysis of both the United States and China’s goals on the world stage. Demonstrating why neither power will be able to dominate the other, the book emphasizes that they will need to cooperate and work together in the coming decades because of their deep economic interdependence.
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Dobson, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, offers an au courant view of Sino-American relations that begins with the June 2013 meeting between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping. In a concise and readable style with a judicious use of charts and graphs to elucidate her points, Dobson argues that the United States and China must "rise above myriad ...distractions and think long term." As evidenced by her notes and bibliography, Dobson examines a broad range of the transformations that are occurring in China. For example, she looks at hukou, the household registration system that affects the use of China's shrinking labor force, and explains how modern business practices must co-exist with so-called socialist law in China, where the belief is that government is responsible "for the people" not to the people as it is in the West. Included alongside her clear discussion of the American system of politics and the economy, the analysis helps readers understand the difficulties inherent in the relations between the two countries. Her skill as a business analyst provides a level of insight that books written by political scientists often do not.
