{"product_id":"in-the-jaws-of-the-dragon-paperback","title":"In the Jaws of the Dragon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEamonn Fingleton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijing--that the Communist Party's grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values. That popular wisdom was \u003ci\u003ewrong\u003c\/i\u003e. As Eamonn Fingleton shows in this devastating book, the culmination of twenty years of research and study, instead of America changing China--i.e., making China more democratic--China is changing America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the Chinese people's rising affluence is, of course, an occasion for wholehearted rejoicing, Uncle Sam should give the Chinese power system a wide berth\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003elest he catch his coattails in the jaws of a dragon.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEamonn Fingleton, a prescient former editor for \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ehas been monitoring East Asian economics since he met supreme leader Deng Xiaoping in 1986 as a member of a top U.S. financial delegation. The following year he predicted the Tokyo banking crash and went on in \u003ci\u003eBlindside\u003c\/i\u003e, a controversial 1995 analysis that was praised by J. K. Galbraith and Bill Clinton, to show that a heedless America was fast losing its formerly vaunted dominance in advanced manufacturing to Japan. His book \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly anticipated the Internet stock crash of 2000. His books have been read into the U.S. Senate record and named among the ten best business books of the year by \u003ci\u003eBusiness Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 21, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134467903623,"sku":"9780312561628","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0c1b3bf01a841dcda2fd6a15c9f955a0.webp?v=1732642054","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/in-the-jaws-of-the-dragon-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}