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World on the Brink

How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

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World on the Brink

By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: Will Collyer
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 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The national security expert who predicted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine argues that Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan—with dire global stakes if he is not deterred

“An excellent source.” —Economist

We are fully in the midst of Cold War II, this time with China. Taiwan is a new West Berlin, a perilous strategic flashpoint where localized events could trigger a devastating war between nuclear powers.

But this outcome is far from inevitable. Laying out the grand strategy for the United States and allies to avoid this fate, the highly respected security analyst Dmitri Alperovitch, who was one of the first to publicly predict Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, reveals key actions that could enable America to win the race for the twenty-first century. This sharp, timely book is the essential blueprint for preventing a catastrophe. Asia China Freedom & Security Politics & Government World War National Security Cold War
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I hope the staffers and principals of both the US' political parties and of the parties in allied countries read this and act accordingly. China must be dettered.

Alarming and convincing

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I'm generally interested in the conflict side of geopolitics and this book is adjacent to that - not quite more normal read/listen.

I really liked how Dmitri didn't just stick to China, he gave a wider context such as russia's war in Ukraine as well as russia's interaction with other nations including China.

It's obvious, to anyone paying even a small amount of attention, that there are lots of risks in our dealings with China but there's no panic in the book. He sticks to how the west, 99% of the time the US, can manage the threat from China without too much harm to western economies.

Overall this book is definitely worth a listen or read. That said I did give the story 4/5 but that was mainly because, at times, it felt like it was a bit of a sales pitch for the US. I realise the author, despite being born in Europe, is now American, and fiercely proud of the US, but there was the odd negative comment about doing business in Europe which to me, as an employee as opposed to business owner, sounded very positive for Europe and very negative for the US. I had to overcome my occasional Europe centric bias and paid attention the main points of the book. I felt a learnt a lot from this book I didn't really know in detail before, for instance about chips and how China is using older chips to leverage advantage.

In short listen to the book but if you're proudly European then, very rarely, you'll have to ignore the odd Europe bashing.

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A book with a comprehensive analysis of the geopolitical situation the US and its allies face regarding their two main adversaries: Russia and China. The book shows in a convincing manner why China should be a greater concern and offers a multipronged strategy to deal with an aggressive and non rules complying China. This strategy is explained and properly justified and the overall view seems to make a compelling case for the recommended strategy for the US and its close allies, but also involving the many countries that can be affected by the Chinese bully.
Highly recommended.

Compelling

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As a concept it’s a good book. And the subject is clearly one the author knows. But at quite a few points you think it’s just being strung out with words. Which makes you lose the thread, especially by the end.

Too long

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