Is This China’s Century or the US’s? Possibly It’s Each

This Lengthy Reads Sunday is a studying of Adam Tooze’s latest assessment of 4 books on the rising battle between the U.S. and China.

This week on Lengthy Reads Sunday, our choice is “Whose Century?” by Adam Tooze within the London Evaluation of Books. 

Nominally a assessment of 4 latest scholarly works on the battle between the U.S. and China, Tooze most important argument is that the central downside with viewing this as a new Chilly Battle is the concept that it’s new. 

As a substitute, we have to perceive that, contra Fukuyama’s well-known essay, historical past didn’t finish with the autumn of the Berlin Wall – at the least not for the Chinese language. What’s extra, the narrative of getting “gained” the Chilly Battle fails to keep in mind the West’s spectacular failures in Asia. 

Solely by reframing our understanding can we make sense of an important geopolitical battle of the approaching century.