America second : how America's elites are making China stronger / Isaac Stone Fish.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022Copyright date: © 2022Edition: First editionDescription: 276 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525657705
- 0525657703
- 9781984898937
- 1984898930
- Political leadership
- Friendship -- Political aspects
- United States -- Foreign public opinion, Chinese -- History
- Public opinion -- China -- History
- United States -- Relations -- China
- China -- Relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign economic relations -- China
- China -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- Chinese -- United States -- History
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A timely, provocative exposé of American 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 U.S. interests.
The past few years have seen relations between China and the United States shift, 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 we do about it?
In America Second, Isaac Stone Fish traces the evolution of the Party's influence in America. He shows how America's leaders initially welcomed China's entry into the U.S. economy, believing that trade and engagement would lead to a more democratic China. And he explains how--although this belief has proved misguided--many of our businesspeople and politicians have become too dependent on China to challenge it.
America Second exposes a deep network of Beijing's influence in America, built quietly over the years through prominent figures like former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright, Disney chairman Bob Iger, and members of the Bush family. And it shows how to fight that influence-without being paranoid, xenophobic, or racist. This is an authoritative and important story of corruption and good intentions gone wrong, with serious implications not only for the future of the United States, but for the world at large.
"This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.
"A timely, provocative expose of our political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing-at a great often hidden cost to our society"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- part 1. How to win friends and influence people. The history of America's influence on China -- Friends with benefits -- America consents -- part 2. Friends in high places. Shangri-la -- Hollywood learns to please Beijing -- Universities and self-censorship -- part 3. With friends like these... Friendship and its discontents -- Defending the rights of Chinese and Chinese Americans.
In recent years relations between China and the United States shifted from enthusiastic economic partners, to wary frenemies, to open rivals. Stone Fish traces the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party's influence in America. He explains how many of our businesspeople and politicians have become too dependent on China to challenge it. Stone Fish exposes a deep network of Beijing's influence in America, built quietly over the years-- and shows how to fight that influence without being paranoid, xenophobic, or racist. -- adapted from jacket