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For those who may not understand the "long game."
China’s Grand Strategy To Displace American Order
Byjoshua Huminski.
There is no shortage today of analysts and pundits attempting to explain China’s behavior, its interests, or its rise. China poses the most impactful challenge to the United States today, and that challenge is radically reshaping the international order. Yet, so much of that analysis and commentary is really a reflection of American fears and interests. As a result, that analysis misses what is actually happening in Beijing and within the Chinese Communist Party.
Rush Doshi, the founding director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative, corrects that analytical shortcoming in his fascinating and alarming new book, “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order.” The title is far from hyperbolic. Doshi presents a strong case that Beijing’s grand strategy is and has been directly driven by an assessment of America’s relative power and position as the global hegemon. China’s government has been extremely successful in translating this assessment into military, political, and economic actions, Doshi claims. This assertion is not simply speculation from a Pentagon spokesperson or staffer on the National Security Council—this is coming directly from the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership and apparatchiks themselves.
“The Long Game” stands out notably from an increasingly crowded China-studies field in its use of primary Chinese language sources, rather than secondary or tertiary accounts or analysis. Doshi acquired numerous Party texts from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and categorized these texts in terms of quality and proximity to power. This achievement should not be underestimated. Poorly translated documents often draw sensational attention over flowery martial language while not allowing for a holistic view of Chinese decision-making and strategy.
Beijing’s actions regionally and globally are of far greater consequence for America’s strategic future than most popular analysis credits. With America distracted by the Global War on Terror, domestic political sclerosis, and fighting various flavors of “culture war”, Beijing steadily pursued a strategy to unseat the liberal western order, one that underpinned global stability since the end of World War II. The United States, it appears, is struggling to recognize China’s threat whilst dealing with these other issues. While the country certainly needs to wrestle with critical domestic and societal challenges, it must be able to confront Beijing’s rise and its challenge to the international order. What follows will almost certainly define the future order, one driven from Beijing and not Washington.
At the core of “The Long Game” is the argument that Chinese grand strategy is predicated on three phases, each of which are directly tied to the relative power position of the United States. Doshi divides the Chinese Communist Party’s grand strategy into several categories: blunting, building, and expanding—and ties Beijing’s military, political, and economic actions directly to these periods.
Much more here:
https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/chinas-grand-strategy-to-displace-american-order
China’s Grand Strategy To Displace American Order
Byjoshua Huminski.
There is no shortage today of analysts and pundits attempting to explain China’s behavior, its interests, or its rise. China poses the most impactful challenge to the United States today, and that challenge is radically reshaping the international order. Yet, so much of that analysis and commentary is really a reflection of American fears and interests. As a result, that analysis misses what is actually happening in Beijing and within the Chinese Communist Party.
Rush Doshi, the founding director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative, corrects that analytical shortcoming in his fascinating and alarming new book, “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order.” The title is far from hyperbolic. Doshi presents a strong case that Beijing’s grand strategy is and has been directly driven by an assessment of America’s relative power and position as the global hegemon. China’s government has been extremely successful in translating this assessment into military, political, and economic actions, Doshi claims. This assertion is not simply speculation from a Pentagon spokesperson or staffer on the National Security Council—this is coming directly from the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership and apparatchiks themselves.
“The Long Game” stands out notably from an increasingly crowded China-studies field in its use of primary Chinese language sources, rather than secondary or tertiary accounts or analysis. Doshi acquired numerous Party texts from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and categorized these texts in terms of quality and proximity to power. This achievement should not be underestimated. Poorly translated documents often draw sensational attention over flowery martial language while not allowing for a holistic view of Chinese decision-making and strategy.
Beijing’s actions regionally and globally are of far greater consequence for America’s strategic future than most popular analysis credits. With America distracted by the Global War on Terror, domestic political sclerosis, and fighting various flavors of “culture war”, Beijing steadily pursued a strategy to unseat the liberal western order, one that underpinned global stability since the end of World War II. The United States, it appears, is struggling to recognize China’s threat whilst dealing with these other issues. While the country certainly needs to wrestle with critical domestic and societal challenges, it must be able to confront Beijing’s rise and its challenge to the international order. What follows will almost certainly define the future order, one driven from Beijing and not Washington.
At the core of “The Long Game” is the argument that Chinese grand strategy is predicated on three phases, each of which are directly tied to the relative power position of the United States. Doshi divides the Chinese Communist Party’s grand strategy into several categories: blunting, building, and expanding—and ties Beijing’s military, political, and economic actions directly to these periods.
Much more here:
https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/chinas-grand-strategy-to-displace-american-order
