T]hat's something that I think everyone in the White House understood was danger. We thought it was necessary, But I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at it and said, this is looking like potential overreach.

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While the diminutive Deng Xiaoping began a process of decentralizing China’s government to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a charismatic leader in the future, the men who followed him turned the bureaucracy into a self-serving mosh pit of corruption and inertia. The central argument of this book is that China’s peaceful rise has been derailed largely for reasons to do with it’s internal politics, but exacerbated by the world (particularly the US) reacting to it. Very detailed information not only about Xi Jinping but also Hu Jintao which helps to understand the shifts in Chinese policy and its relation to the US, EU, Russia, other Asian countries, etc. The final chapter, Conclusion, should be studied very very carefully by all those involved with US/China relations. Records [of library loans] must be protected from the self-appointed guardians of public and private morality and from officials who might overreach their constitutional prerogatives. Without such protection, there would be a chilling effect on our library users as inquiring minds turn away from exploring varied avenues of thought because they fear the potentiality of others knowing their reading history.b) A country so corrupt that the new bridge built for a state of the art high-speed train collapses within a couple years because its builders opted to use low-grade concrete and pay out enormous bribes to get the contract? Shirk lays out the domestic and international consequences of collective leadership under Hu Jintao and makes a compelling case for how these conditions influenced Xi Jinping's policy decisions. Shirk explains the unique domestic political mechanisms and international contexts that caused China under both Hu's collective leadership and Xi's personalistic rule to overreach internationally and alienate its neighbors. c) A country that gives brownie points to citizens who don’t jay walk using social media and high-powered facial recognition technology?

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equestrianism ) Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action. At the risk of making Xi the bogeyman, one has to ask, in all fairness and with a straight face, what really is “socialism with Chinese characteristics?” Relations between China and the United States have deteriorated to the point that, in Susan Shirk's assessment, we are now fully embroiled in Cold War II. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world's most respected experts on Chinese history and policy, focuses on this overreach ( third-person singular simple present overreaches, present participle overreaching, simple past and past participle overreached or ( obsolete ) overraught) Many Americans seem to assume that the current tension between the US and China arose only with the election of Donald Trump in 2016—or with the rise of Xi Jinping to the top of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) four years earlier. But that’s far from the case. In Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise, veteran China analyst Susan Shirk reveals the fateful changes that played out in Beijing beginning a decade earlier. Bringing to bear a half century’s experience as a student of Chinese politics, Dr. Shirk digs deeply into the weeds of the country’s opaque political system to document the emergence of its aggressive new stance in the world—and the growing risk of war between the US and China.

In a concluding chapter to her book, the author cautions the Biden Administration and the Congress against taking any further steps that would make China turn even more resolutely inward—because the more the mandarins in Zhongnanhai heed the clamor of the Chinese public—clamor they’ve generated with their own propaganda—to strike out against their perceived enemies, the greater the risk of war between China and the West. However, Dr. Shirk advocates a series of thoughtful steps American leaders might take to reduce this risk. Steps that, sadly, many loud voices in Washington seem unwilling to take. Don't overreach when reaching for the function keys. This causes the finger tendons to stretch. Move your hand closer to the desired key before pressing it. Remain open to China's participation in certain multilateral agreements granted e.g., digital agreements; But in the real world the US and its ally the United Kingdom are arming Australia with nuclear subs to police the South China Sea. A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed to their deterioration, and what it means for the future.

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overreach, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2004; “ overreach, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. The noted conservative economist delivers arguments both fiscal and political against social justice initiatives such as welfare and a federal minimum wage. While Shirk doesn’t go quite this far, it is both ironic and fitting that Xi’s prdecessors, incl. Hu Jintao and Jang Zemin, ultimately built governments of such self-dealing and logrolling it would have made the bureaucracies of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush blush with shame.expand soft and hard power abroad. Prior to the global financial crisis in 2008, China seemed willing to engage with domestic and international issues in a constructive manner. Following the crisis, however, power dynamics shifted, and so, too, did China's approach. It began to view the U.S. as a collapse in relations. Military flashpoints have increased in number and frequency, and rather than acting as trade partners, the two countries view economic competition in zero-sum terms. As Shirk notes, China and the United States have become so fearful of one another that they are weaponizing