The West has spent decades pleading with China to become a responsible stakeholder in the global community, but what happens now that China is starting to take a more proactive role internationally? In this podcast, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are joined by Dutch journalist Fokke Obbema, a de Volkskrant correspondent and author of the recent book China and the West: Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia.

Recommendations

• China and the West: Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia, by Fokke Obbema (I. B. Tauris, 2015)
• China: Fragile Superpower, by Susan L. Shirk (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• “Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-2020),” State Council, June 14, 2014
• Rousseau and Revolution: The Story of Civilization (Volume X), by Will Durant and Ariel Durant (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper, 2015)
• The Circle, by David Eggers (Vintage Books, 2014)