The Long Game

Given the turbulence in the international order in recent years, one of the central concerns among observers of world politics is the question of China's ultimate goals. As China emerges as a superpower that rivals the United States, American policymakers grappling with this century's greatest geopolitical challenge are looking for answers to a series of critical questions. Does China have expansive ambitions? Does it have a grand strategy to achieve them? If so, what is it and what should the United States do about it? In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, and memoirs by party leaders, to demonstrate that China is in fact playing a long, methodical game to replace America as a regional and global hegemon. He traces the basic evolution of Chinese strategy, showing how it evolved in response to changes in US policy and its position in the world order. After charting these shifts over time, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet "asymmetric" plan for an effective US response to this challenge: one that undermines China's ambitions without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan. Ironically, the approach mirrors China's own current strategy of subtly weakening Chinese leverage in the region and elsewhere while expanding US leverage over China. A bold assessment of what the Chinese government's true foreign policy objectives are, The Long Game offers valuable insight to the most important rivalry in world politics.

If you doubt that China has been pursuing a long-term, comprehensive strategy to achieve global primacy, read Rush Doshi's book. In this brilliant, definitive work, Doshi details the vaulting ambition of Beijing's agenda. Everyone interested in the future of American power and world order should read it now-or weep later.

Auteur
Rush Doshi is Director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative and a Fellow in Brookings Foreign Policy. He is also a Fellow at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, Special Advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and an intelligence officer in the US Navy Reserve. Dr. Doshi was a member of the Asia Policy Working Group for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, an analyst at the Long Term Strategy Group and Rock Creek Global Advisors, an Arthur Liman Fellow at the Department of State, and a Fulbright Fellow in China. His research has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, International Organization, and the Washington Quarterly, among other publications, and he has testified before the US Congress.

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In The Long Game, Rush Doshi demonstrates that China is in fact playing a long, methodical game to replace America as a global hegemon. Drawing from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents and memoirs by party leaders, he traces the basic evolution of Chinese strategy, showing how it evolved in response to changes in US policy and the US's position in the world order.

Contenu

• Chapter 1 - "A Coherent Body of Thought and Action": Defining Grand Strategy

• Chapter 2 - "The Party Leads Everything": Grand Strategy and the Communist Party

• Chapter 3 - "New Cold Wars Have Begun": The Traumatic Trifecta and the US Threat

• Chapter 4 - "Hiding Capabilities and Biding Time": Blunting as China's First Displacement Strategy

• Chapter 5 - "A Change in the Balance of Power": The Financial Crisis and US Decline

• Chapter 6 - "Actively Accomplish Something": Building as China's Second Strategy of Displacement

• Chapter 7 - "A Suit that No Longer Fits": The Global Order and China's Ambitions

• Chapter 8 - "Towards the World's Center Stage": Global Expansion as China's Third Displacement Strategy

• Chapter 9 - An Asymmetric Response: Dealing with Chinese Strategies of Displacement