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Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

bySusan Shirk

Susan Shirk examines how China moved from a strategy of reassuring neighbors and integrating peacefully with the world toward greater coercion, nationalism, and confrontation. She traces decisions under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping, including internal party dynamics, propaganda, military pressure, territorial disputes, repression, and relations with the United States. The book argues that overreach was not an automatic result of growing power but a political choice shaped by weak constraints and leaders' fears. Shirk shows how those choices damaged China's international standing and made conflict more likely.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication date

Oct 03, 2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780190068516