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In recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijingthat the Communist Partys grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values. That popular wisdom was wrong. As Eamonn Fingleton shows in this devastating book, the culmination of twenty years of research and study, instead of America changing Chinai.e., making China more democraticChina is changing America.
While the Chinese peoples rising affluence is, of course, an occasion for wholehearted rejoicing, Uncle Sam should give the Chinese power system a wide berthlest he catch his coattails in the jaws of a dragon. Eamonn Fingleton, a former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times, has been monitoring East Asian economics since he met supreme leader Deng Xiaoping in 1986. He predicted the Tokyo banking crash the following year, and the Internet stock crash of 2000 in his book In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity. His books have been read into the U.S. Senate record and named among the ten best business books of the year by Business Week and Amazon.com.
In recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijingthat the Communist Partys grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values.
That popular wisdom was wrong. As Eamonn Fingleton shows in this devastating book, instead of America changing China, China is changing America. Although this process of reverse convergence has been swept largely under the carpet by knee-jerk globalists in the American press, Americans will soon be hearing much more about it. Nowhere is the pattern more obvious than in business. Many top American corporationsBoeing, AT&T, the Detroit automobile companies, among themopenly collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party. In a stunning rejection of Western values, Yahoo! even provided the Chinese secret police with vital evidence that resulted in a ten-year jail sentence for one of its Chinese subscribers, a brave young dissident, under draconian censorship laws. Selling the American national interest short, countless other corporations abjectly do Beijings lobbying in Congress.
This bookthe culmination of twenty years of studyalso breaks new ground by revealing the secret behind Chinas phenomenal savings rate. It is reinforced by an Orwellian system of political control that, as Fingleton reveals, utilizes an ancient bureaucratic tool called selective enforcementa form of blackmail that instills a silent reign of terror throughout Chinese society. Most worryingly, selective enforcement can readily be unleashed on any American corporation with interests in Chinawhich is to say just about every member of the Fortune 500. Eamonn Fingleton demonstrates once again why his analyses of modern capitalism deserve serious attention. As he has done before with Japan, he identifies the elements of Chinas business model that depart sharply from easy Western assumptionsand he lays out the consequences of seeing China the way outsiders would like it to be, rather than the way it is.”James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly
Eamonn Fingleton demonstrates once again why his analyses of modern capitalism deserve serious attention. As he has done before with Japan, he identifies the elements of Chinas business model that depart sharply from easy Western assumptionsand he lays out the consequences of seeing China the way outsiders would like it to be, rather than the way it is.”James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly
With capitalism spreading in China, the world expects communism to be swept away by democracy. Eamonn Fingleton expertly shows why it is not to be. This book begins the understanding of the challenge the United States faces from an authoritarian China strengthened by capitalism.”Former Senator Ernest F. Hollings
"The more heavily that U.S. media conglomerates invest in China, the more vulnerable they become to Chinese pressure to censor their U.S. reportage. As Eamonn Fingleton shows, what we dont know can hurt us. This is a fascinating book with truly unique insights.”Pat Choate, author of Agents of Influence
Filling in the missing pieces of the puzzle that is China, Eamonn Fingletons riveting and provocative book is required reading for anyone who cares about the U.S.-China relationship.”Senator Byron Dorgan, author of Take This Job and Ship It
Eamonn Fingleton offers a compelling corrective to the naive and often self-interested view of U.S. elites that as China grows more capitalistic, it will necessarily grow more democratic.”Robert Kuttner, coeditor, The American Prospect
Fingleton brings his penetrating analytical skills to bear on every dimension of the U.S.-China economic relationship, even the uncomfortable facts that many policymakers prefer to ignore.”Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
Anyone who cares about the future of American industry needs to read this book.”Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
One of the most powerful, shocking, well-written, solidly documented, tear-the-scales-from-your-eyes books I've read in more than two decades . . . I couldn't put this book downat least 100 of its 368 pages are dog eared and highlighted. It's probably the most important book that's ever been written about the figure of our republic.”Thom Hartmann, host of The Thom Hartmann Program
America's fate looks dicey in the showdown with the Chinese juggernaut, warns [Fingleton] . . . His economic analysis is incisive.”Publishers Weekly
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Praise for In the Jaws of the Dragon
“Americas fate looks dicey in the showdown with the Chinese juggernaut, warns this vigorous jeremiad. . . . his economic analysis is incisive.”—Publishers Weekly
“One of the most powerful, shocking, well-written, solidly documented, tear-the-scales-from-your-eyes books Ive read in more than two decades. . . . I couldnt put this book down—at least 100 of its 310 pages are dog-eared and highlighted. Its probably the most important book that's ever been written about the future of our republic.”—Thom Hartmann
“Eamonn Fingleton demonstrates once again why his analyses of modern capitalism deserve serious attention. He lays out the consequences of seeing China the way outsiders would like it to be, rather than the way it is.”—James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly
“Eamonn Fingletons riveting and provocative book is required reading for anyone who cares about the U.S.-China relationship.”—Senator Byron L. Dorgan, author of the New York Times bestseller Take This Job and Ship It
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Praise for In the Jaws of the Dragon
“Americas fate looks dicey in the showdown with the Chinese juggernaut, warns this vigorous jeremiad. . . . his economic analysis is incisive.”Publishers Weekly
“One of the most powerful, shocking, well-written, solidly documented, tear-the-scales-from-your-eyes books Ive read in more than two decades. . . . I couldnt put this
book downat least 100 of its 310 pages are dog-eared and highlighted. Its probably the most important book that's ever been written about the future of our republic.”Thom Hartmann, BuzzFlash Reviews
“Eamonn Fingleton demonstrates once again why his analyses of modern capitalism deserve serious attention. He lays out the consequences of seeing China the way outsiders would like it to be, rather than the way it is.”James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly
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Synopsis
Long-time Asia scholar and economist Fingleton sounds an alarming wake-up call to those who dream that through free-market capitalism, China will embrace American values and welcome U.S. firms.
Synopsis
In recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijing—that the Communist Partys grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values. That popular wisdom was wrong. As Eamonn Fingleton shows in this devastating book, the culmination of twenty years of research and study, instead of America changing China—i.e., making China more democratic—China is changing America.
While the Chinese peoples rising affluence is, of course, an occasion for wholehearted rejoicing, Uncle Sam should give the Chinese power system a wide berth—lest he catch his coattails in the jaws of a dragon.
About the Author
Eamonn Fingleton, a prescient former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times, has been monitoring East Asian economics since he met supreme leader Deng Xiaoping in 1986 as a member of a top U.S. financial delegation. The following year he predicted the Tokyo banking crash and went on in Blindside, a controversial 1995 analysis that was praised by J. K. Galbraith and Bill Clinton, to show that a heedless America was fast losing its formerly vaunted dominance in advanced manufacturing to Japan. His book In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity brilliantly anticipated the Internet stock crash of 2000. His books have been read into the U.S. Senate record and named among the ten best business books of the year by Business Week and Amazon.com.