num_pages: 432
description: For more than a century no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival if not eclipse the UnitedStates. What does China want does it have a grand strategy to achieve it and what should the United States do about it?In The Long Game Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources including decades worth of party documents leaked materials memoirs by party leaders and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. Takingreaders behind the Party's closed doors he uncovers Beijing's long methodical game to displace America from its hegemonic position in both the East Asia regional and global orders through three sequential strategies of displacement. Beginning in the 1980s China focused for two decades onhiding capabilities and biding time. After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis it became more assertive regionally following a policy of actively accomplishing something. Finally in the aftermath populist elections of 2016 China shifted to an even more aggressive strategy for undermining UShegemony adopting the phrase great changes unseen in century. After charting how China's long game has evolved Doshi offers a comprehensive yet asymmetric plan for an effective US response. Ironically his proposed approach takes a page from Beijing's own strategic playbook to undermine China'sambitions and strengthen American order without competing dollar-for-dollar ship-for-ship or loan-for-loan.
language: English
title: The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
publisher: Oxford University Press