Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine

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b) A country so corrupt that the new bridge built for a state of the art high-speed train collapses within a couple years because its builders opted to use low-grade concrete and pay out enormous bribes to get the contract? I am by no means a China expert, so I found the details on the inner workings of the CCP valuable, and thought the policy recommendations for the US at the end of the book were measured and nuanced. There were probably too many pages spent dealing with the background of the war and not enough on the actual war itself. Measured against this standard, and considering the circumstances under which it was produced, the book is a success.

Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine

The noted conservative economist delivers arguments both fiscal and political against social justice initiatives such as welfare and a federal minimum wage. Owen Matthews has no doubt that the war in Ukraine is one of these, declaring in the introduction to Overreach that “The world’s security architecture, food and energy supply, balance of military power and alliances will be altered by [the war] forever”. While I had some issues with this book, I found it overall an informative and insightful look into modern China.What's especially useful is all the years leading up to the conflict, which were not well covered here at the time, and will not be familiar to most British readers unless they have gone out of their way to find them out.

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For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.At 68, Putin was already two years past the life expectancy of the average Russian male, and would be a “lame duck” in five years. The current stalemate is explained by two illusions: Russia's aka Putin's bid that Ukraine will finally cede under the pressure and Zelensky's desire to get back not only Lukhansk and Donetsk regions but also Crimea. And in Overreach, the author explains how this new course in Chinese foreign and military policy emerged from the bureaucratic muddle at the top of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Putin is totally weakened: perhaps it would be the best result for the West, the bad thing is that Russia is leaving more and more of the international concert and this is bad for the world in general and especially for the Russians.

Shirk lays out the domestic and international consequences of collective leadership under Hu Jintao and makes a compelling case for how these conditions influenced Xi Jinping's policy decisions.

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A more worrying take home point is that Xi is unlikely to relinquish power unless deposed in a Coup or his health fails, so it is up to more cooler heads in the US to accommodate themselves to a more pragmatic and realistic China policy, as opposed to the overreactive measures under Trump, and their half hearted continuation under Biden. Shirk, who has been studying China for several decades, served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs during the Clinton administration, and her 2007 book, China: Fragile Superpower, was highly influential. Owen Matthews bases his dissection of Putin's political views on Putin's essay of 2021: On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians, http://en.

But Shirk soberly urges Washington not to overreact to Beijing in a way that would “weaken the country’s ability to compete successfully with China. Relations between China and the United States have deteriorated to the point that, in Susan Shirk's assessment, we are now fully embroiled in Cold War II. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime – and Russia itself – at risk of destruction. A respected journalist draws on deep knowledge to explain the thinking behind Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.