How China Loses

The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions

By: Luke Patey

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

A critical look at how the world is responding to China's rise, and what this means for America and the world.

China is advancing its own interests with increasing aggression. From its Belt and Road Initiative linking Asia and Europe, to its "Made in China 2025" strategy to dominate high-tech industries, to its significant economic reach into Africa and Latin America, the regime is rapidly expanding its influence around the globe. Many fear that China's economic clout, tech innovations, and military power will allow it to remake the world in its own authoritarian image. But despite all these strengths, a future with China in charge is far from certain. Rich and poor, big and small, countries around the world are recognizing that engaging China produces new strategic vulnerabilities to their independence and competitiveness.

How China Loses tells the story of China's struggles to overcome new risks and endure the global backlash against its assertive reach. Combining on-the-ground reportage with incisive analysis, Luke Patey argues that China's predatory economic agenda, headstrong diplomacy, and military expansion undermine its global ambitions to dominate the global economy and world affairs. In travels to Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Europe, his encounters with activists, business managers, diplomats, and thinkers reveal the challenges threatening to ground China's rising power.

At a time when views are fixated on the strategic competition between China and the United States, Patey's work shows how the rest of the world will shape the 21st century in pushing back against China's overreach and domineering behavior. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries began to confront their political differences and economic and security challenges with China and realize the diversity and possibility for cooperation in the world today.

©2021 Luke Patey (P)2021 Recorded Books Inc.

Very Good Content, but...

The content of this book is relatively authoritative in as much as it is well supported by the author's research and first-hand interviews. Of some concern however, is the author's seeming lack of understanding of the true ramifications of the concept of globalization from the standpoint of the continuing viability and sovereignty of nation-states. The continuing evolution of regional economic coalitions, as suggested by the author, are indeed a viable solution for small and medium sized countries as a strategy for pushing back against China and its growing aggression. But not at the cost of losing their sovereignty and self- directedness.

In contrast to the very good content of this book however, is the very poor performance of the reader. His reading of the text can be described as nothing short of lazy. His consistent mispronounciation of words (such as, "forward" being pronounced, "foe-ward") and his failure to carefully enunciate every syllable in multi-syllabic words is extremely annoying. A book of this kind is filled with the words of an author with a superior vocabulary that includes the technical terms appurtenant to his subject matter. This deserves a reader whose capacity to articulate the pronunciation of that technicality is commensurate with the content of the book.