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Susan L Shirk a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China knows many of todays Chinese rulers personally and has studied them for three decades She offers invaluable insight into how they thinkand what they fear In this revealing book you will see the world through the eyes of men like President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin We discover a fragile communist regime desperate to survive in a society turned upside down by miraculous economic growth and a stunning new openness to the greater world Theirs is a regime afraid of its own citizens and this fear motivates many of their decisions when dealing with the US and other foreign nations In particular the fervent nationalism of the Chinese people combined with their passionate resentment of Japan and attachment to Taiwan have made relations with these two regions a minefield It is here Shirk concludes in the tangled interactions between Japan Taiwan China and the United States that the greatest danger lies
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