The conclusion is worth reading for the constructive policy recommendations for the United States, namely that the U.S. should: declining superpower, one China was well on its way to supplanting. Internationally, China began to act more belligerently with its neighbors. Internally, circumstances have enabled Xi Jinping to consolidate more power than any leader since Mao Zedong. overreach ( third-person singular simple present overreaches, present participle overreaching, simple past and past participle overreached or ( obsolete ) overraught) Shirk lays out the domestic and international consequences of collective leadership under Hu Jintao and makes a compelling case for how these conditions influenced Xi Jinping's policy decisions. Shirk explains the unique domestic political mechanisms and international contexts that caused China under both Hu's collective leadership and Xi's personalistic rule to overreach internationally and alienate its neighbors.

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their interdependence. Not even the common threat of the COVID-19 pandemic could convince them to coordinate their efforts. Very detailed information not only about Xi Jinping but also Hu Jintao which helps to understand the shifts in Chinese policy and its relation to the US, EU, Russia, other Asian countries, etc. The final chapter, Conclusion, should be studied very very carefully by all those involved with US/China relations. transitive, intransitive ) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. [from 14th c.] Synonyms: see Thesaurus: transcend Professionals must remind themselves not to overreach the extent of their data and not to substitute values for scientifically supported facts, and must know when to inform fact-finders about the extent of the limits to knowledge.transitive , property law ) To defeat or override a person's interest in property; ( Britain ,specifically ) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party. Reshaping [of British Railways] was far from perfect. It was tainted by statistical overreach, the unconscious biases of its author, and by the political demands being placed upon the BRB by government.

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Of course, history tells us that whenever one great power’s influence is fading and a rival’s is growing, conflict is inevitable. But the competition doesn’t necessarily require military action. Yet the risk of a military clash between the US and China has grown markedly over the past two decades. Certainly, the US shares some responsibility for this shift. But, as Dr. Shirk makes clear, a series of missteps in Chinese policy—none of them inevitable—has been the determining factor. And the first of those missteps predated the ascension of Xi Jinping by a decade. It was under his predecessor as General Secretary, Hu Jintao, that the pattern was set. And in Overreach, the author explains how this new course in Chinese foreign and military policy emerged from the bureaucratic muddle at the top of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Susan L. Shirk’s Overreach remarkably charts the changes of Chinese leadership at home and their actions abroad since the demise of Mao Tsedong. The central argument of this book is that China’s peaceful rise has been derailed largely for reasons to do with it’s internal politics, but exacerbated by the world (particularly the US) reacting to it.Fascinating but a handful of details of history that are obfuscated in this book but clearly highlighted and detailed in other books left me wondering ‘Why?’ Compare “ overreach, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2004; “ overreach, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed to their deterioration, and what it means for the future. expand soft and hard power abroad. Prior to the global financial crisis in 2008, China seemed willing to engage with domestic and international issues in a constructive manner. Following the crisis, however, power dynamics shifted, and so, too, did China's approach. It began to view the U.S. as a

Relations between China and the United States have deteriorated to the point that, in Susan Shirk's assessment, we are now fully embroiled in Cold War II. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world's most respected experts on Chinese history and policy, focuses on this Wood therefore cannot, in equity, be permitted to proceed in his ejectment suit, to recover possession of the land under the title he has acquired from the state, by the attorney general's sale, and which at law overreaches the complainant's title. Nuclear scientist and Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov later credited Dubcek with the birth of dissent in the Soviet Soviet Union and made possible Gorbachev’s perestroika and the breakup of the Soviet union. What is essentially beneficial to one party is materially detrimental to another: they have been enemies before, and may be enemies again: so that they are constantly endeavouring to overreach each other by some separate advantage, and serious causes of animosity and dissension are perpetually arising. Xi’s announced reforms had nothing to do with liberalization. Rather, he has hardened the Chinese Communist Party’s response to dissent in Beijing, in Hong Kong, and throughout the CCP’s sphere of influence.