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Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
Peaceful War is an epic analysis of the unfolding drama between the clashing forces of the Chinese dream and American destiny. Just as the American experiment evolved, Deng Xiaoping’s China has been using “Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends” and borrowed the idea of the American Dream as a model for China’s rise. The Chinese dream, as reinvented by President Xi Jinping, continues Deng’s experiment into the twenty-first century. With a possible “fiscal cliff” in America and a “social cliff” in China, the author revisits the history of Sino-American relations to explore the prospects for a return to the long-forgotten Beijing-Washington love affair launched in the trade-for-peace era. President Barack Obama’s Asia pivot strategy and the new Silk Road plan of President Xi could eventually create a pacific New World Order of peace and prosperity for all. The question is: will China ultimately evolve into a democratic nation by rewriting the American Dream in Chinese characters, and how might this transpire?
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Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
Peaceful War is an epic analysis of the unfolding drama between the clashing forces of the Chinese dream and American destiny. Just as the American experiment evolved, Deng Xiaoping’s China has been using “Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends” and borrowed the idea of the American Dream as a model for China’s rise. The Chinese dream, as reinvented by President Xi Jinping, continues Deng’s experiment into the twenty-first century. With a possible “fiscal cliff” in America and a “social cliff” in China, the author revisits the history of Sino-American relations to explore the prospects for a return to the long-forgotten Beijing-Washington love affair launched in the trade-for-peace era. President Barack Obama’s Asia pivot strategy and the new Silk Road plan of President Xi could eventually create a pacific New World Order of peace and prosperity for all. The question is: will China ultimately evolve into a democratic nation by rewriting the American Dream in Chinese characters, and how might this transpire?
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Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order

Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order

by Patrick Mendis
Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
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Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order

by Patrick Mendis

Overview

Peaceful War is an epic analysis of the unfolding drama between the clashing forces of the Chinese dream and American destiny. Just as the American experiment evolved, Deng Xiaoping’s China has been using “Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends” and borrowed the idea of the American Dream as a model for China’s rise. The Chinese dream, as reinvented by President Xi Jinping, continues Deng’s experiment into the twenty-first century. With a possible “fiscal cliff” in America and a “social cliff” in China, the author revisits the history of Sino-American relations to explore the prospects for a return to the long-forgotten Beijing-Washington love affair launched in the trade-for-peace era. President Barack Obama’s Asia pivot strategy and the new Silk Road plan of President Xi could eventually create a pacific New World Order of peace and prosperity for all. The question is: will China ultimately evolve into a democratic nation by rewriting the American Dream in Chinese characters, and how might this transpire?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761861881
Publisher: UPA
Publication date: 10/18/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Patrick Mendis is a distinguished senior fellow and an affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy. He is also a distinguished visiting professor of international relations at the Center for American Studies of the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou, China. An alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Mendis has worked for the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, and State as well as the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the World Bank, and the United Nations. He is a commissioner of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, an advisor to Harvard International Review, and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Table of Contents

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Dedication
Foreword by Prof. Jack Goldstone, George Mason University

Prologue:Sino-American Relations
A Sino-American Journey

Part One: Pacific Renaissance
  1. The American Dream in China

Part Two: Nature’s God and the Mandate of Heaven
  1. One Vision, Two Philosophies
  2. From the Forbidden City to the Federal City

Part Three: The Great Drama in the Indo-Pacific Region
  1. China’s Manifest Destiny in the Indian Ocean
  2. The Ménluó Doctrine and the Asia Pivot Policy
  3. The String of Pearls and the Colombo Consensus

Part Four: Chinese Destiny in America
  1. Birth of a Pacific New World Order

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Author
Praise

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