How China loses

The implications of China's global ambitions have been a prominent topic of discussion in the international media and academic scholarship in recent years. The rise of China is perhaps the most consequential regional and global security issue of this century, and political analysts have provided all sorts of ‘solutions’ to the ‘problem’. These two timely books show how current geopolitical tensions have become matters of war and peace that are reshaping the debates. To a certain extent, they reflect a shift in political focus among those with more differentiated views on China's rise—from the perceived need to push back against China's global ambitions, as analysed by Luke Patey, and towards measures to prevent hostile relations turning into a military conflict. The latter is the key theme of Kevin Rudd's book: how to prevent strategic competition between the US and China from spiralling out of control and resulting in a catastrophic war

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