How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions

In How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions (Oxford University Press, 2021), Luke Patey argues that China’s predatory economic agenda, headstrong diplomacy, and military expansion undermine its ambitions to dominate the global economy and world affairs.

He shows that countries around the world — rich and poor, big and small — are pushing back and recognizing that engaging China produces new strategic vulnerabilities to their independence and competitiveness.

Luke Patey is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Lead Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Hindu, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. His last book was The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan.