Whose century?
Adam Tooze: After the Shock, 30 July 2020
Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System
by Paul Blustein.
McGill-Queen’s, 356 pp., £27.99, September 2019,978 1 928096 85 6 Show More
by Paul Blustein.
McGill-Queen’s, 356 pp., £27.99, September 2019,
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei.
Harper, 480 pp., £25, June 2020,978 0 06 295305 6 Show More
by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei.
Harper, 480 pp., £25, June 2020,
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis.
Yale, 288 pp., £20, June 2020,978 0 300 24417 5 Show More
by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis.
Yale, 288 pp., £20, June 2020,
The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite
by Michael Lind.
Atlantic, 224 pp., £14.99, February 2020,978 1 78649 955 4 Show More
by Michael Lind.
Atlantic, 224 pp., £14.99, February 2020,
“... interests to them. US manufacturers such as Boeing, GE and Pepsi, banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan, and the insurance giant AIG all wanted the new market, and they wanted the cheap labour. From 1994, when the Clinton administration abandoned its hard line on the legacies of Tiananmen, the thrust of policy was to open up new markets and ... ”
