Publisher's Synopsis
No nation on earth has benefited more from the post-war world order than China. From freedom of the seas to free markets to free exchanges of ideas, China has harnessed the international system built by the U.S. and its allies to become a major world power. In the last 30 years with the global economy, more than 800 million in China have come out of poverty. But despite these achievements, China does not want to play by the rules. Rather than help preserve the global system that allowed China to grow rapidly, it is exploiting its vulnerabilities to gain a strategic edge over competitors. China has no intention of becoming an equal partner in the world community. They do this by cheating. This includes enacting policies such as stealing intellectual property from the United States and other countries, forcing transfers in exchange for market access to technology, imposing discriminatory licenses on foreign companies while subsidizing competing Chinese companies that try to operate throughout the world, and intentionally investing in American companies to acquire sensitive U.S. technology. Just as the Chinese Communist Party does not want rivals at home, it wants to fix a global system that ensures its dominance and no other country. This includes surpassing the United States as the leading economic, political, and military power.
