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The essential feature of democratic capitalism is creative destructionāput simply, constant innovation in the products and services we produce and how we produce them. My book gives a history of electricity and demonstrates the wide-angle lens we must use to fully understand this sort of innovation. The books I recommend here are among the absolute best in this regard. Importantly, in Cold War II, China is challenging America with state capitalism and creative destruction is at the heart of the battle. I have a Ph.D. in Economics and founded a consulting company that assessed new technologies in the energy sector for over 30 years.
I love this book because it expertly describes the differences between American democratic capitalism and Chinese state capitalism. Jinās life has been spent straddled between these two worlds, and she is in a unique position to explain the fundamental differences between these two societies and what this means for the future. The most significant differences center on the nature and pace of creative destruction.
America currently leads in revolutionary (zero to one) innovation and China is succeeding in evolutionary (one to N) innovation. Jinās work shows how China is looking to create a new model for entrepreneurship within the control of the government.Ā
A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China's juggernaut economy
Although China's economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is often based on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin burrows deep into the mechanisms of a unique system, taking a nuanced, clear-eyed, and data-based look inside. From the far-reaching and unexpected consequences of China's one-child policy to the government's complex relationship with entrepreneurs, from its boisterous financial system to its latest push for technological innovation, Jin reveals the frequentlyā¦
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to runā¦
How do and should be conceptualize competition between the United States and China? This is the most important bilateral relationship in the world but is in the process of fracturing. Some have argued that this means that we are now in an era of a "New" or "Second" Cold War. This book takes a systematic approach to examine whether or not this is the case. It argues that the relationship post-2011 has been characterized by "global competition; systematic implications in the international order; and, most importantly, a high level of friction falling short of direct hostilities". One of the theories presented in the book is that the New Cold War is in actuality a continuation or revivification of the previous one, although it also examines the differences, such as the primacy of technology and networks in the current version, rather than direct territorial control and influence.
The last decade or so has seen US-China relations enter a negative spiral. The evolution of this complex relationship has triggered a fast-growing debate on whether this is a New Cold War.
Building on a deconstruction of concepts such as cold wars and Cold War, this book illustrates how the relationship between the US and China has been a "marriage of convenience" - with both cooperation and competition - for years, but also that we might be close to the end of it. The US and China, it is argued, are locked in a "new type of cold war" whereā¦
