#Non-fiction Has China Won?

- Author: Kishore Mahbubani
- Title: Has China Won?
- Published: 2020
- List of Challenges 2021
- Monthly plan
- China is on its way to being number 1 superpower in the world.
- Forget the US president or Putin
- …no world leader will have more influence
- on the future than Xi Jinping.
- America has a strong macho culture
- but it is the pragmatic China that is going to win!
- Mr. Muhbubani sketches the strategic steps and missteps
- that both America and China have made.
- The more I read about China….the more I admire
- its long-term plans,
- Chinese defense rationale (no stockpiles of nuclear weapons)
- and a meritocratic government which chooses only best and the brightest.
- Ch 3: KM is a Singaporean diplomat with a sense of humor.
- Laughing out loud when I read:
- ” …the world is genuinely shocked that America has elected a
- president who could not pass an Economics 101 undergraduate
- exam on international trade.”
- Trump presented to China a geopolitical gift b/c his
- decisions were erratic with NO long-term strategy.
- USA is a rogue superpower
- ….and China will become THE world leader!
- #MustRead
