China Incorporated : The Politics of a World Where China Is Number One

"Are we prepared for a world where power is shared between the West and China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that America currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours? Here, one of the world's leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership - as they lay out a roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with the West. From how, and why, China as a dominant superpower has been inevitable for many years, to how the attempts to fight the old battles are over, Brown digs deeper into the problematic nature of China's current situation - its treatment of dissent, of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the severe limitations on its management of relations with other cultures and values. These issues impact on the way the West sees China, China sees the West, and how both see themselves. There are obstacles accepting a place for China in the world - but just because this will be a difficult process does not mean that it should not happen. As Kerry Brown writes: history is indeed ending, but not in the way the West thought it would"-- Provided by publisher Cover Halftitle page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS AN IMPORTANT NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY INTRODUCTION Chapter One THE THREE KEY THINGS ABOUT CHINA FOR THE MODERN WORLD Strong China China as a Sea Power The Issue of Values Making Sense of Things: An Initial Conclusion Chapter Two THE ENIGMA OF CHINESE POWER Confucius Institutes and the Infiltration of Foreign Universities China is Buying Us Up China as a Hard Power China as a Technological Predator Neither Guilty nor Innocent: An Unclear Nation seen Unclearly Chapter Three CHINA AND THE QUESTION OF VALUES Europe as a Values Superpower Changing Tack What Do Chinese Believe? Chapter Four WHAT DOES THE WORLD WANT FROM CHINA? What the West Doesn’t Want What Everyone Wants Who Are the Complex Ones? Chapter Five WHAT DOES CHINA WANT FROM THE WORLD? Getting Rich Together Unwilling Wants Assertive Wants Power without Responsibility Status Mirroring Each Other Chapter Six THE DARK SIDE OF CHINESE POWER The Lull Before the Storm Xinjiang – Why It is So Hard to Find Common Ground The Xinjiang Quandary Chapter Seven THE GREAT SEPARATION – PART ONE China Explanation Number One: We are Right: China is Undertaking a Huge Con China Explanation Number Two: China Has to Democratize Golden Rule of the Enlightenment West: Always Ten Years Too Late Dual Circulation – China says ‘We Have Had Enough’ A New Cold War? Chapter Eight MAKING THE DUAL TRACK WORLD WORK Moving from the Bungalow NOTES SUGGESTED FURTHER READING INDEX Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours? Here, one of the world's leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership - as they lay out a roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with the West. From how, and why, China as a dominant superpower has been inevitable for many years, to how the attempts to fight the old battles are over, Brown digs deeper into the problematic nature of China's current situation - its treatment of dissent, of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the severe limitations on its management of relations with other cultures and values. These issues impact the way the West sees China, China sees the West, and how both see themselves. There are obstacles to the West accepting a more prominent place for China in the world – but just because this will be a difficult process does not mean that it should not happen. As Kerry Brown writes: history is indeed ending, but not how the West thought it would.