The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 “A Coherent Body of Thought and Action”
2 “The Party Leads Everything”

Part I “Hiding Capabilities and Biding Time”: Blunting as China’s First Displacement Strategy (1989–2008)
3 “New Cold Wars Have Begun”
4 “Grasping the Assassin’s Mace”
5 “Demonstrate Benign Intentions”
6 “Permanent Normal Trading Relations”

Part II “Actively Accomplishing Something”: Building as China’s Second Displacement Strategy (2009–2016)
7 “A Change in the Balance of Power”
8 “Make More Offensive Moves”
9 “Establish Regional Architecture”
10 “Aboard Our Development Train”

Part III “Great Changes Unseen in a Century”: Global Expansion as China’s Third Displacement Strategy (2017 and Beyond)
11 “Toward the World’s Center Stage”
12 “Standing Tall and Seeing Far”
13 An Asymmetric Strategy for US-China Competition

Conclusion

Given the turbulence in the international order in recent years, one of the central concerns among observers of world politics is the question of China's ultimate goals. As China emerges as a superpower that rivals the United States, American policymakers grappling with this century's greatest geopolitical challenge are looking for answers to a series of critical questions. Does China have expansive ambitions? Does it have a grand strategy to achieve them? If so, what is it and what should the United States do about it?

In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, and memoirs by party leaders, to demonstrate that China is in fact playing a long, methodical game to replace America as a regional and global hegemon. He traces the basic evolution of Chinese strategy, showing how it evolved in response to changes in US policy and its position in the world order. After charting these shifts over time, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet "asymmetric" plan for an effective US response to this challenge: one that undermines China's ambitions without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan. Ironically, the approach mirrors China's own current strategy of subtly weakening Chinese leverage in the region and elsewhere while expanding US leverage over China.

A bold assessment of what the Chinese government's true foreign policy objectives are, The Long Game offers valuable insight to the most important rivalry in world politics.

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