China's Grand Strategy: Weaving a New Silk Road to Global Primacy - Hardcover

Kashmeri, Sarwar A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1440867909 ISBN 13: 9781440867903

Publisher: Praeger, 2019

Synopsis

In the "Great Game" of the 21st century―gaining leadership and influence in Asia―the United States is rapidly being outflanked by China, which is investing in infrastructure, connectivity, and supply chains on an unprecedented global scale.

· Explains the Belt and Road Initiative, including its historical roots, sources of funding and the financial and aid institutions being set up by China to subsidize and underwrite the projects

· Describes in detail the most strategically important BRI projects, with the projects' scope, cost, and strategic impact

· Evaluates the cultural, religious, and economic dangers of each of the key projects that China will have to overcome in order for the BRI to succeed

· Suggests ways in which the United States might devise a grand strategy to live in the new world China is constructing and to maintain its standard of living

· Draws from personal research and interviews with prominent Asian and American scholars, businessmen, military officials, and political experts

About this title

About the Author:

Sarwar A. Kashmeri is adjunct professor of political science and applied research fellow at the Peace and War Center, Norwich University, and a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.

Review:

"China's comprehensive grand strategy of modernization, security, and expansionism consists of deeply inter-related objectives. One great strength of Sarwar Kashmeri's wide-ranging new study is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics between these goals despite the complexity of the task and the unpredictability of the world ahead." (Dr. Parag Khanna, author of Connectography and The Future Is Asian)

"A forcefully written case for China's coming domination of key interfaces of global communications and transport. Kashmeri's assessment of China's potential to outrun the U.S. economically and technologically is only a prelude to his description of China's ideological challenges to democracies around the world. This book is a bracing admonition against any over-confident and under-informed American skepticism about the potential of BRI." (Pamela Kyle Crossley, Collis Professor of History, Dartmouth College)

"This book lays bare the challenges posed by China's grand strategy for its rise to global dominance. Foreign policy expert Sarwar Kashmeri tells the story of how China's Belt Road Initiative presents a serious challenge to American global dominance, and how America has failed to develop a broad, long-term grand strategy of its own. Anyone concerned with the future of global politics should read this book!" (Larry P. Goodson, Professor of Middle East Studies, US Army War College; and Visiting Fellow, Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, Oxford University)

"Sarwar Kashmeri's examination of the Belt and Road Initiative serves to illustrate that China's curation of economic and foreign policy interests around the world has yet to be addressed seriously by an otherwise distracted Washington." (George Magnus, author of Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy)

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1440867909
• ISBN 13: 9781440867903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192