By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World Author: Elizabeth Economy | Language: English | ISBN:
B00H2H0HIY | Format: PDF
By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World Description
In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will continue to demand, massive quantities of resources. Like every other major power in modern history, China is looking outward to find them.
In By All Means Necessary, Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi explore the unrivaled expansion of the Chinese economy and the global effects of its meteoric growth. China is now engaged in a far-flung quest, hunting around the world for fuel, ores, water, and land for farming, and deploying whatever it needs in the economic, political, and military spheres to secure the resources it requires. Chinese traders and investors buy commodities, with consequences for economies, people, and the environment around the world. Meanwhile the Chinese military aspires to secure sea lanes, and Chinese diplomats struggle to protect the country's interests abroad. And just as surely as China's pursuit of natural resources is changing the world--restructuring markets, pushing up commodity prices, transforming resource-rich economies through investment and trade--it is also changing China itself. As Chinese corporations increasingly venture abroad, they must navigate various political regimes, participate in international markets, and adopt foreign standards and practices, which can lead to wide-reaching social and political ramifications at home.
Clear, authoritative, and provocative, By All Means Necessary is a sweeping account of where China's pursuit of raw materials may take the country in the coming years and what the consequences will be--not just for China, but for the whole world.
- File Size: 1292 KB
- Print Length: 289 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0199921784
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 7, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00H2H0HIY
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Wisely, this work veers far from an endorsement of alarmist rhetoric towards China, as well as of complacency in U.S. policy towards its largest trade partner. A well-written narrative of China's acquisition and application of power in the current arena makes for an interesting read, and a sharp analysis of where China stands in the world today.
Not without some repetition of history and analysis well-known to experts, new material and smart thinking make this a really fresh look on a familiar issue. Economy/Levi offer policymakers, analysts, and general readers with a framework for thinking about China (and about how the U.S. would do well respond) that I'm happy I now have lodged in my bookcase.
By Casey M.
I echo Anne-Marie Slaughter's blurb: "By All Means Necessary is a valuable corrective to the hype that typically accompanies accounts of China's global search for natural resources."
I was especially taken by Economy/Levi's scrutiny of how China's quest will impact various stakeholders, whether resource consumers, owners, investors, or heads of state.
Policymakers and pundits are suggesting this is must-read book, but for the layperson looking to simply better understand geopolitics, you can't go wrong.
Highly recommend.
By Whitney L. Johnson
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