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Haunted by Chaos - China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to XI Jinping (Hardcover)
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Haunted by Chaos - China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to XI Jinping (Hardcover)
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An American Interest Top Book of the Year “Khan has unraveled the
mystery of Chinese grand strategy, showing why insecurity lies at
the root of Chinese power projection… Readers will not find a
shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.”
—Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Revenge of Geography Before the
Chinese Communist Party came to power, China lay broken and
fragmented. Today it is a force on the global stage, and yet its
leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. Drawing on an
array of sources, Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand
strategies that have sought not only to protect China from
aggression but also to ensure it would never again experience the
powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras. The dramatic
variations in China’s modern history have obscured the
commonality of purpose that binds the country’s leaders.
Analyzing the calculus behind their decision making, Khan explores
how they wove diplomatic, military, and economic power together to
keep a fragile country safe in a world they saw as hostile.
Dangerous and shrewd, Mao Zedong made China whole and succeeded in
keeping it so, while the caustic, impatient Deng Xiaoping dragged
China into the modern world. Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao served as
cautious custodians of the Deng legacy, but the powerful and deeply
insecure Xi Jinping has shown an assertiveness that has raised both
fear and hope across the globe. For all their considerable costs,
China’s grand strategies have been largely successful. But the
country faces great challenges today. Its population is aging, its
government is undermined by corruption, its neighbors are arming
out of concern over its growing power, and environmental
degradation threatens catastrophe. A question Haunted by Chaos
raises is whether China’s time-tested approach can respond to the
looming threats of the twenty-first century.
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