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In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life, and the construction of a virtual wall of regulations to control more closely the exchange of ideas and capital between China and the outside world. Beyond its borders, Beijing has recast itself as a great power, seeking to reclaim its past glory and to create a system of international norms that better serves its more ambitious geostrategic objectives. In so doing, the Chinese leadership is reversing the trends toward greater political and economic opening, as well as the low-profile foreign policy, that had been put in motion by Deng Xiaoping's "Second Revolution" thirty years earlier.

Through a wide-ranging exploration of Xi Jinping's top political, economic and foreign policy priorities-fighting corruption, managing the Internet, reforming the state-owned enterprise sector, improving the country's innovation capacity, enhancing air quality, and elevating China's presence on the global stage-Economy identifies the tensions, shortcomings, and successes of Xi's reform efforts over the course of his first five years in office. She also assesses their implications for the rest of the world, and provides recommendations for how the United States and others should navigate their relationship with this vast nation in the coming years.

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File Size: 3674 KB
Print Length: 359 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (April 4, 2018)
Publication Date: April 4, 2018
Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B07BH34X3S
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Carol Paik

This is one of the best books I have read on China in the past ...

April 8, 2018

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This is one of the best books I have read on China in the past few years. It brought a degree of clarity to the enormously complex political and economic changes underway in China today that I have not encountered in other books. The author argues convincingly that Xi Jinping’s China is significantly different from that of Deng Xiaoping or Mao Zedong ( the second and first revolutions) and poses a new type of challenge for the United States. She points to four trends in particular as distinguishing Xi China from that of his predecessors: the extraordinary consolidation of power in Xi's own hands, the growing role of the Communist Party in Chinese society and economy, the increasing ability of the Party to control the amount of information and capital that comes into China from the outside world, and a much more assertive Chinese foreign policy. She grounds her argument in interesting and novel insights from both interviews with Chinese officials and businesspeople, as well as fascinating material from Chinese history. (For example, she traces the role of censorship and anti-corruption campaigns not only back to Mao’s China but also through different periods of Imperial China.) There is also a section on what the United States should do about China, which I found quite helpful given all of the tensions in the U.S.-China relationship today. Overall, I found the book to be smart, nuanced, and engaging. Well worth the time and money.

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September 2, 2018

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For me this was a followup to Henry Kissinger because he only went up to around 2010 when Obama was starting and Hu Xintao was the ruler of China. I was unfamiliar with Elizabeth Economy, but she works with Richard Haass, a frequent talking head from the establishment, and Max Boot, a hawkish neocon who in 2002 embraced the term neocon at a time when everybody was nitpicking over the exact meaning of neocon. He accepted the general meaning of an all around worldwide hawk. As Ted Cruz once said, invade every country on earth (he wasn't advocating it), or as Michael Ledeen and Jonah Goldberg said, pick some country and throw them at the wall every decade or so. Boot is a harsh Trump critic along with Frum and Kristol, and like Frum and Jen Rubin I really don't know how they match the term conservative at all, but whatever. But I'm getting off topic. The point is, Economy is a younger lady but she works with some established figures.
The main point of the book is that Xi Jinping is the most powerful leader since Chairman Mao. That's saying something, considering Deng Xiaoping shaped the direction for decades and Jiang Xemin was a formidable figure in his own right, as Kissinger observed. The "third revolution" involves some of the Hu era but really picked up under the current leadership. Despite the Tienanmen Square tragedy, there was a general trend of economic reforms, that many hoped would be a catalyst for political and human rights reforms. This
has emphatically gone in the opposite direction. It would be interesting to tackle the history of Russia since the Soviet Union and how there may be parallels.

The various chapters chronicle the crackdown on political opposition, including an increased control over the internet. This has provoked resistance at home and abroad, including among the entrepreneurs who have made many innovations in the technological economy. There is also a military buildup, as we've recently seen in the news. Kissinger noted that military power wasn't the main factor in the rise, but it has been a result that has developed a lot in the past decade. The militarism goes with nationalist sentiment
of course, and the reversal of various financial reforms from the Deng and Jiang eras, with an increased tendency toward government owned businesses. All these things have affected China's ability to relate to the international liberal order, which it didn't participate in creating. The liberal order itself is in crisis,
with the rise of various forms of populism and nationalism in different regions.

Elizabeth Economy, perhaps for the purpose of influence and cooperation, takes a reasonable approach to the Trump administration (the colleagues in the establishment are talking heads who generally criticize Donald). The hawkish stance that developed in the early to mid part of this decade seems confirmed by what was going on with Xi and the third revolution. I use hawkish not in the sense of
interventionism, but his attitude toward trade and other aspects of the relationship. Economy
suggests that measures of retaliation, economic and other, are necessary in this new era of the relationship between China and the US.

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Kelly Wright

Standard exposition, nothing new

August 15, 2018

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One of hundreds of books that explain the current US-China state of affairs. No insight into what motivates Xi, no examination of the ‘core socialist values’ that he follows, or any revelations other than the standard narratives found daily in the media. Disappointing for that reason, the book is nevertheless well-researched for its content and overall well-written.

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Rick Blaine

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March 20, 2019

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I was looking for a readable book about China today and its political goals and motivation for the future. This book is written by a Chinese scholar who punctuates many of her sentences with Chinese language and characters. I suppose this is to enhance her credentials as an academic and to prove her scholarly qualifications but I found it distracting. The book is not written in a journalistic or popular style like you might find in the pages of the Wall Street Journal or the N.Y. Times. It reads like a PhD dissertation and as such does not well serve to educate newcomers to the subject. I found it a hard slog and abandoned the book after 120 pages. I probably should have chosen a book by Gordon Chang if I wanted readability. This is too bad because the author appears to be well qualified in her subject.

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