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The emergence of China as Asia's regional hegemon is an extremely current and topical subject, with widespread interest across its neighbours as well as in Europe and the US. The argument advanced in this book that China's rise is long-term punitive for the rest of the region will create significant debate.
About the author
William Bratton has 20 years' experience in Asia in both management consultancy and investment banking. He was initially based in Singapore, where he worked as a strategy consultant specialising in the telecom and media sectors. He then joined Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, where he quickly became a top-ranked equity analyst. He most recently ran HSBC's Asian equity research department between 2014 and 2019, where he oversaw a significant improvement in product quality and client traction. He has extensive networks across Asia, especially within financial institutions, and has seen first-hand many of the region's evolving geopolitical, financial and economic dynamics.
He was trained as an economic geographer with a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a first-class degree from the London School of Economics. He is studying for his second doctorate at the University of Oxford on the geography of finance.
