America Second - How Americas Elites Are Making China Stronger

About the author

Isaac Stone Fish is the founder and CEO of the research firm Strategy Risks, which quantifies corporate exposure to China. He is also a Washington Post Global Opinions contributing columnist, a contributor to CBSN, an adjunct at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, a columnist on China risk at Barron’s, and a frequent speaker at events around the United States and the world. A fluent Mandarin speaker and formerly a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, Stone Fish spent seven years living in China. He lives in New York.

Summary

A timely, provocative exposé of the America’s political and business leadership’s deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing — at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests.

The past few years have seen a shift in the relations between China and the United States, from enthusiastic economic partners, to wary frenemies, to open rivals. Americans have been slow to wake up to the challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Why did this happen? And what can be done about it?

In America Second, Isaac Stone Fish traces the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in America. He shows how America’s leaders initially welcomed China’s entry into the US economy, believing that trade and engagement would lead to a more democratic China. And he explains how — despite the fact that this belief has proved misguided — many of the country’s businesspeople and politicians have become too dependent on China to challenge it.

America Second exposes a deep web of Chinese influence in America, built quietly over the years through prominent figures such as former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright, Disney chairman Bob Iger, and members of the Bush political dynasty. And it shows how to fight that influence — without being paranoid, xenophobic, or racist. This is an authoritative and important story, not only of corruption but of misplaced intentions, with serious implications for the future of the United States, as well as for the world at large.

Product details

• Authors: Isaac Stone Fish
• Assisted by: Clive Hamilton (Foreword)
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2022
• EAN: 9781914484520
• ISBN: 978-1-914484-52-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Globalization, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, International business, International Economics, United States of America, USA, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade