Summary of Ian Bremmer's The Power of Crisis

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 To survive our impending crises, we must avoid disaster in two relationships: the one we have with one another, and the one between the US and China.
#2 The United States is a nation of contradictions. While the country led the world in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID, it also set records for speed of production and distribution of game-changing vaccines.
#3 Today, there is almost no common ground between the most liberal Republicans and the most conservative Democrats, and this has led to less compromise in Congress.
#4 There are many sources of division in the American community. The widening income gap between the rich and the poor is one of them. The top 1 percent of Americans now own more than 70 percent of the country’s wealth.

Sujets

• Political Economy
• Political Science

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822547100
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ian Bremmer's The Power of Crisis
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

To survive our impending crises, we must avoid disaster in two relationships: the one we have with one another, and the one between the US and China.

#2

The United States is a nation of contradictions. While the country led the world in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID, it also set records for speed of production and distribution of game-changing vaccines.

#3

Today, there is almost no common ground between the most liberal Republicans and the most conservative Democrats, and this has led to less compromise in Congress.

#4

There are many sources of division in the American community. The widening income gap between the rich and the poor is one of them. The top 1 percent of Americans now own more than 70 percent of the country’s wealth.

#5

The American capitalist culture reveres the animal spirits unleashed by market forces and the entrepreneur, and many politicians are dependent on the goodwill of people and organizations willing to bankroll their careers.

#6

Social media has changed the way Americans receive their news, and has created a business model based on advertising dollars that productizes the personal data of citizen-consumers.

#7

Despite all this, America has become much more racially diverse, and is expected to become majority non-white in about 2045.

#8

The two parties must understand the changing economy and make plans to benefit all working Americans.

#9

America’s politics are so dysfunctional that they make it impossible for the country to provide leadership in the areas of long-term investment and solutions for complex problems.

#10

China has gone from pushing for international reform to helping guide it, to making plans for leading it. China intends to dominate East Asia by tightening political control in Hong Kong and pressuring Taiwan to stop resisting Beijing’s push for unification with the mainland.

#11

China’s authoritarian political system, surveillance, and direct state intervention in the economy made it the first country to emerge from recession in 2020. It offered poorly made products that provoked a backlash in Europe.

#12

The US and China will never be best friends, but if they can work together to address global threats to human health, climate change, and profoundly disruptive technologies, they can create a new international system.

#13

China’s rise has been one of the most remarkable accomplishments in history. Between 1990 and 2018, while the US share of the global economy fell from 26. 4 percent to 23. 9 percent, China’s share grew from 1. 6 percent to 15. 8 percent.