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David Shambaugh – China Goes Global

Join eminent China scholar David Shambaugh (Tangled Titans: The United States and China and Charting China’s Future) in conversation with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society as they discuss Shambaugh’s latest book, China Goes Global. Followed by a book sale and signing.

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the “workshop of the world.” Yet while China-watchers have shed much light on the country’s internal dynamics —  China’s politics, its vast social changes, and its economic development — few have focused on how this increasingly powerful nation has become more active and assertive throughout the world.

In China Goes Global, David Shambaugh delivers the book that the world has been waiting for. Thirty years ago, China’s role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor and it had little geostrategic power. As Shambaugh charts, though, China’s expanding economic power has allowed it to extend its reach virtually everywhere — from mineral mines in Africa, to currency markets in the West, to oilfields in the Middle East, to agribusiness in Latin America, to the factories of East Asia. Shambaugh offers an enlightening look into the manifestations of China’s global ambitions: its extensive commercial footprint, its growing military power, its increasing cultural influence or “soft power,” its diplomatic activity, and its new prominence in global governance institutions.

But Shambaugh is no alarmist. In this balanced and well-researched volume, he argues that China’s global presence is more broad than deep and that China still lacks the influence befitting a major world power — what he terms a “partial power.” He draws on his decades of China-watching and his deep knowledge of the subject to expound on China’s current and future roles in the world affairs.











When: Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave.
212-288-6400
Price: $15
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Join eminent China scholar David Shambaugh (Tangled Titans: The United States and China and Charting China’s Future) in conversation with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society as they discuss Shambaugh’s latest book, China Goes Global. Followed by a book sale and signing.

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the “workshop of the world.” Yet while China-watchers have shed much light on the country’s internal dynamics —  China’s politics, its vast social changes, and its economic development — few have focused on how this increasingly powerful nation has become more active and assertive throughout the world.

In China Goes Global, David Shambaugh delivers the book that the world has been waiting for. Thirty years ago, China’s role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor and it had little geostrategic power. As Shambaugh charts, though, China’s expanding economic power has allowed it to extend its reach virtually everywhere — from mineral mines in Africa, to currency markets in the West, to oilfields in the Middle East, to agribusiness in Latin America, to the factories of East Asia. Shambaugh offers an enlightening look into the manifestations of China’s global ambitions: its extensive commercial footprint, its growing military power, its increasing cultural influence or “soft power,” its diplomatic activity, and its new prominence in global governance institutions.

But Shambaugh is no alarmist. In this balanced and well-researched volume, he argues that China’s global presence is more broad than deep and that China still lacks the influence befitting a major world power — what he terms a “partial power.” He draws on his decades of China-watching and his deep knowledge of the subject to expound on China’s current and future roles in the world affairs.

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