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This book is a collection of essays from MacroPolo, the think tank of the Paulson Institute in Chicago. The picture of China that emerges in this volume is one built from the ground up, across economics, politics, and technology. In addition, because China's rise has important global dimensions, a US-China section composed of two essays is included, which combine both a macro perspective and a view of the bilateral relationship through the history of a significant multinational firm. Finally, this volume will include an original introduction and conclusion by Damien Ma, editor and co-founder of MacroPolo.
The essays are analytically driven and provide novel perspectives, context, granular data, and policy conclusions that get lost in the daily churn of news cycles. None of the essays in this volume focuses on national security or geopolitics. Rather, the volume grapples squarely with how China's domestic economic, political, and technological developments have transformed not only itself but also the world at large.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Liaoning: The Smothering Effects of Local Protectionism.- 3. Slow, Steady, Cheap, and Painless: Making Sense of China's Bad Loan Strategy.- 4. Who Loses from Restricting Chinese Student Visas?.- 5. From Windfalls to Pitfalls: Qualcomm's China Conundrum.- 6. In Xi We Trust: How Propaganda Might be Working in the New Era.- 7. Who Rules China? Comparing Representation on the NPC and Central Committee.- 8. Reluctant Stakeholder: Why China's Highly Strategic Brand of Revisionism is More Challenging than Washington Thinks.- 9. For Company and For Country: Boeing and US-China Relations.- 10. Conclusion.
About the author
Damien Ma is Director of MacroPolo, the Think Tank at the Paulson Institute. He is the author of In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade. He also serves as adjunct faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA.
Previously, Ma was a Senior Analyst at Eurasia Group, the political risk research and advisory firm. At EG, he focused on the China and East Asia markets, covering areas that spanned energy and commodities and industrial policy to elite politics and US-China relations. He also led work on analyzing Mongolian politics and its mining sector. His advisory and analytical work served a range of clients from institutional investors and multinationals to the US, Japanese, and Singaporean governments.
