China's Emergence as a Superpower (2015 onwards)

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This article on Sinocism an online subscription newsletter by a Sinologist, Bill Bishop, and is an updated commentary on a 2007 book 'The China Fantasy' by James Mann.

It opens with:

a short book arguing that Western elites misrepresented the benefits of engagement with China and that prosperity and capitalism might not, as they claimed, eventually bring democracy to the PRC......I have come to believe that this is the most important and prescient American book on China of the 21st century. I urge you to read it.

Link:https://sinocism.com/james-mann-and-...china-fantasy/

Link to Bill Bishop's slim bio:https://nb.sinocism.com/subscribe#about

I have not heard of this book, nor either author and for once some of the comments on the newsletter commentary are interesting, sadly several are duplicated.