****The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's
policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further
towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of *Rise of the
Vulcans
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[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian
country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to
resist pressures to change . . . Mann's prediction turned out to be
true. -New York Review of Books, October 2017 ******
From Clinton to Bush to Obama, the prevailing belief was engagement
with China would make China more like the West. Instead, as [James]
Mann predicted, China has gone in the opposite direction. -The New
York Times**, February 2018***
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One of our most perceptive China experts, James Mann wrote The China
Fantasy as a vital wake-up call to all who are ignorant of America's
true relationship with the Asian giant. For years, our leaders posited
that China could be drawn to increasing liberalization through the power
of the free market, but Mann asked us to consider a very real
alternative: What if China's economy continues to expand but its
government remains as dismissive of democracy and human rights as it is
now?
Now the results are in: the reign of Xi Jinping has proven that Mann was
right. To understand how China got to its current state and why it may
not be too late to turn back, The China Fantasy is essential reading.
Calling for an end to the current policy of overlooking China's abuses
for the sake of business opportunities, Mann presents an alternative
path to a better China.
