Kerry Brown, "China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Asian Review of Books · Sep 21, 2023 · 37m

How do we talk about China? It’s a question every analyst, academic, policymaker, and reporter probably needs to ask themselves.

Is China, as some of the hawks claim, an existential threat to the world order? Is it on the verge of aggressively taking the number one spot—or is it on the verge of collapse? Is it a dangerous military threat or is it—as some Chinese commentators claim—an entirely benevolent power?

Navigating this increasingly black-and-white conversation is Kerry Brown, leading China academic and author of China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One…