At once shrewd and dangerous, Mao Zedong made China whole and succeeded in keeping it so while the caustic Deng Xiaoping dragged China into the modern world. Analyzing the calculus behind decision making at the highest levels, Sulmaan Wasif Khan explores how China’s leaders have harnessed diplomatic, military, and economic power to keep a fragile country safe in a hostile world. Today it dominates the global stage, and yet its leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. “An outstanding contribution to our understanding of that most urgent of contemporary geopolitical questions: what does China want?”īefore the Chinese Communist Party came to power, China lay broken and fragmented. “Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.” Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand strategies that have sought to protect China from aggression and ensure it would never again experience the powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past. Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken.
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