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Avoidable War, The: Dangers of A Catastrophic Conflict Between the US & Xi JinPing’s China

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Avoidable War, The: Dangers of A Catastrophic Conflict Between the US & Xi JinPing’s China

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Title: Avoidable War, The: Dangers of A Catastrophic Conflict Between the US & Xi JinPing’s China
Author: RUDD KEVIN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/03/2022
Imprint: HACHETTE AUSTRALIA
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active

In a timely and insightful exploration, former Australian Prime Minister and international authority on China, Kevin Rudd, examines the growing sense that the US-China relationship is beginning to hurtle out of control. Hyper-nationalists have gained ground in the politics of Washington and Beijing and self-described ‘realists’ are pushing more confrontational national security policy agendas, while ‘liberal internationalists’ and ‘multilateralists’ have been written off.



The United States has formally declared that forty years of ‘strategic engagement’ between China and America has failed – and that we have now entered into a new era of ‘strategic competition’ where there are no rules. Meanwhile in Xi Jinping’s China, Beijing now proclaims the rise of the east, the decline of the west, and China’s rise to become the globally dominant great power.

This ‘great unravelling’ of the US-China relationship has given rise to economic, cyber and high technology warfare, and perhaps broader economic decoupling – with a widening gulf between the two superpowers over foreign policy, national security policy and international economic policy in both perception and practice. Kevin Rudd suggests we are not yet at crisis point. But we sometimes seem to be headed inexorably in that direction. As politicians, strategists and generals on both sides embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and a new Cold War, they face the prospect of the unthinkable: war itself.

The Avoidable War offers a compelling strategic narrative for the future that might still be acceptable enough to both sides: an understanding of the past and a vision of the future that might just reduce the risk of catastrophe.

ISBN: 9780733648502
Weight: 300g
Pages: 400

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Weight 300 g