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
Narrated by:
Will Collyer
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Will Collyer
About this listen
In this “excellent” (Economist) book, 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
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 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.
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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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Highly recommended.
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