![]() ![]() According to the author, China’s biggest mistake is that it gives too much power to local governments and Beijing is largely powerless to control them. I thought, maybe here is where we get a more evenhanded approach. But I carried on in spite of this obvious bias because the next two chapters were about the biggest mistakes so far that each of the world superpowers has made. ![]() This was evident throughout the Introduction when he basically said that China is the victim of cultural misunderstanding and that America was mostly afraid of powerful “yellow” people (his words, not mine) and mistakenly thinks that all Communism is the same as the Soviet Union was. The author has a very big bias in favor of China. ![]() And unfortunately, if your starting thesis is incorrect, then some or all of your conclusions probably will be too. But I felt like the author has gotten it wrong when it came to his starting thesis. To be clear, I did not put this book away because it was poorly written. Sometimes things start to look up after a rocky beginning. I make an effort to not put down a book less than halfway through in order to be fair. I stopped reading this book about 150 pages in, roughly halfway. ![]() Thank you NetGalley and Public Affairs!*** ***Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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