Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade
Author: Bill Emmott
The former editor in chief of the Economist returns to the territory of his bestselling book The Sun Also Sets to lay out an entirely fresh analysis of the growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan and what it will mean for America, the global economy, and the twenty-first-century world.
Though books such as The World Is Flat and China Shakes the World consider them only as individual actors, Emmott argues that these three political and economic giants are closely intertwined by their fierce competition for influence, markets, resources, and strategic advantage. Rivals explains and explores the ways in which this sometimes bitter rivalry will play out over the next decade—in business, global politics, military competition, and the environment—and reveals the efforts of the United States to manipulate and benefit from this rivalry. Identifying the biggest risks born of these struggles, Rivals also outlines the ways these risks can and should be managed by all of us.Publishers Weekly
Over the past 20 years, some of the most striking economic growth in history has been taking place in Asia, and former Economisteditor-in-chief Emmott (The Sun Also Sets) combines solid economic and political analysis with entertaining personal accounts to discuss three countries in the center of the phenomenon. Emmott paints richly detailed portraits of China, India and Japan, examining the global implications of their growing rivalry while remaining attentive to issues that extend beyond the region, such as the environment and nuclear weapons proliferation. Several of his conclusions are familiar: China's rapid economic growth is coming into conflict with its political authoritarianism; there is vast potential for India's growth if public policy can properly encourage it; Japan's aging and shrinking population could lead the country into further economic decline. The true strength of the book lies in Emmott's ability to guide the reader through the intricate-often fraught-relationships between these countries without losing focus. Particularly welcome is his ability to discuss potential trouble spots in the region without degenerating into alarmism. This serious and stimulating book will be indispensable to anyone interested in where these countries are headed-and where they might take us. (May)
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The East, to steal a line from Mao, is red: red-hot, that is, economically, and on the way to reshaping the global economy. Former Economist editor-in-chief Emmott (20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century, 2003, etc.) credits George W. Bush with doing one thing-one thing-right in his years in the White House: forging close ties with India, or at least attempting to do so. Though far behind many other Asian economies, by Emmott's account, India has the wherewithal and the population to rival China and neutralize its power in the coming years. "George Bush's recognition of that fact," Emmott writes, "was his Richard Nixon moment"-that is, a climactic moment akin to Nixon's rapprochement with China precisely to balance Soviet power worldwide. The playing fields are different, of course, now that China has extended itself into the global economy and the local economies of most of the world's nations; yet, Emmott hazards, China's economic growth will likely plateau in about 15 years to a comparatively modest but still healthy five percent per annum, whereas India's will keep on growing at ten percent thereafter. It is no small matter that both countries may "treble their economic output" by 2025, and, as Emmott writes, "Asia is going to carry on getting richer and stronger, probably for a long time to come." Japan fits in the scheme less centrally, but Emmott envisions a sort of free-trade zone among Japan, Korea and China, a scenario that becomes happier and more probable under the assumption that Korea unifies and that Chinese communism becomes even less communistic. Japan remains nervous, of course, about its longtime Chinese foe, one reason for "Japan'sanxiousness to involve India in regional affairs." Emmott closes with a series of policy recommendations, including that the U.S. government declare "that it sees Asian integration and intraregional cooperation as desirable."Brightly written, in Economist tradition, and of much interest to fiscal wonks, geopoliticians and investors.
Table of Contents:
Asia's New Power Game 1A Continent Created 28
China: Middle Country, Central Issue 54
Japan: Powerful, Vulnerable, Aging 96
India: Multitudes, Muddle, Momentum 135
A Planet Pressured 175
Blood, Memory and Land 208
Flash Points and Danger Zones 239
Asian Drama 280
Acknowledgments 312
Endnotes 317
Bibliography 325
Index 328
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Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto
Author: Ted Nugent
America has been craving leadership — and at last a gun-slinging, mega-rock star, deerslayer, and patriot has stepped forward to provide it.
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Love him or loathe him, veteran rocker, commentator, and neo-libertarian rabble-rouser conservationist Nugent is hard to ignore. His "manifesto," a collection of essays and ruminations, will prove bracing but familiar to those acquainted with his antic, aggressive voice-in-the-wilderness style and often controversial stances on hot-button issues like gun control, welfare and self-reliance. Among loud, provocative analysis of a dozen issues (plus a chapter devoted to his last essay collection, 2001's God, Guns & Rock and Roll), Nugent puts together an "If I were president" list that includes eliminating welfare except for military personnel, making prisoners plant trees, forcing people in New Orleans live on higher ground and executing child molesters. While many of his suggestions-meant to "piss you off" as well as think-are pat, or even curmudgeonly ("I am convinced that most kids today have never heard the word 'posture'"), they're balanced by common sense and a healthy respect for the Golden Rule. Longtime fans will revel in Nugent's loudmouth charm and his rhapsodic take on discovering the guitar; whether he'll persuade newcomers that global warming is "the greatest hoax ever played on Americans," or that he himself is "a large, in charge, ruggedly independent, angry black man" is doubtful, but this maverick never claimed to be a uniter.
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