CHINA Restored : The Middle Kingdom Looks to 2020 and Beyond

About the Book :

In China Restored: The Middle Kingdom Looks to 2020 and Beyond, Eric C. Anderson challenges the widespread perception of China as a rising giant whose authoritarian program to supplant the United States as global hegemony poses a grave international threat. He weighs in against doomsday prophets such as Martin Jacques, who predicts that China`s economy and diplomatic influence will equal those of the United States by 2025 and will eclipse them by a factor of two by 2050. Anderson, a player in Washington`s China policy debates who enjoys deep access to Chinese intelligence sources, counters with a careful argument that Beijing`s overriding aim is in fact to foster a stable global environment conducive to its economic development and regional hegemony based on legitimate political authority rather than coercion.

About Author :

Eric C. Anderson is a national security consultant and teaches at the National Defense Intelligence College in Washington, DC. He served as senior intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, as senior intelligence analyst for the multinational Forces-Iraq in Baghdad and at the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii, and as an active-duty intelligence officer in the United States Air Force with assignments in Japan, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. He taught at the University of Missouri, University of Maryland, and the Air Force Academy. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Missouri. He has written over 600 articles for the National Intelligence Council, International Security Advisory Board, and Department of Defense. He is a the author of Take the Money and Run: The Hazard and Hope of Sovereign Wealth Funds for America