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“I have to warn you, don’t read any Orwell books before you go to sleep. I cried when I read Who Cares, I was furious when I read Show Me the Bodies, I was dismayed when I read Divided. All these books bring you to certain emotions. This one, The Fire of the Dragon, just kept me awake because it scared me. And I’m not prone to hyperbole, generally.
What I found so incredibly powerful about this book is just how important it is that we all understand more about what is happening in China and its worldview. I’m not saying this in a nationalistic or close-minded way, but this book reveals the much scarier nature of the world, when you think about it through the lens of China. That’s what it challenges you to do. How China sees us and how we see China and the ambitions on both sides are so wildly different. The book shows how bad the policy has been in terms of individual governments in relation to supply of resources, what’s happening in Taiwan, what this author thinks will happen in Hong Kong. It kept me awake because it feels as though this is troubling in a way that not enough people are really thinking about and understand well enough.”
