Books by Kevin Rudd
“The book is essentially an accounting of the last 15 years of US-China relations from the vantage point of Washington and Beijing, and it’s inspired by or informed by Rudd’s several hours of one-on-one conversations in Chinese, in informal settings, with Xi Jinping.” Read more...
The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations
Eyck Freymann, Historian
Interviews where books by Kevin Rudd were recommended
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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
by Matt Pottinger -
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The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping’s China
by Kevin Rudd -
3
US-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?
by Bonnie Glaser, Richard Bush & Ryan Hass -
4
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
by Olivia Cheung & Steve Tsang -
5
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
by Edward Fishman
The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations, recommended by Eyck Freymann
The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations, recommended by Eyck Freymann
Taiwan is a crucial lynchpin of the high-tech global economy, but its international political position is far from stable. China has explicit ambitions to incorporate it into the Chinese state and seems intent on building the military capacity to do this by force. The US is committed to preserving its de facto independence. For the moment, there is a stand-off, but a crisis over Taiwan would be a crisis for the world, politically and economically. Eyck Freymann, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, recommends five books to help understand the dynamics of the situation and the possible outcomes.
