America's Challenge: Engaging a Rising China in the Twenty-first Century

“China’s rise presents America with its biggest foreign policy challenge. This book comprehensively and deftly lays out the considerations relevant to wise policy formulation. Swaine offers analysis and recommendations in a manner that both informs and enlightens. It will be an invaluable resource for policymakers, concerned citizens, and students.”–J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to China

“For the last two decades Michael Swaine has provided some of the most enlightening and accurate views of Chinese thought. Here he engineers a convincing logic of the need to reassess our strategy in the U.S.-China relationship. His recommendations lay the foundation for the necessary debate.”–Joseph W. Prueher, former U.S. ambassador to China, former commander, U.S. Pacific Command, and James Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center, University of Virginia

“A significant and needed contribution to the literature on U.S.-China relations. Some conclusions are striking and will prove controversial.”–Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor at Princeton University and former deputy assistant to the vice president for national security affairs

“Swaine’s comprehensive, intensively researched analysis of trends in U.S.-China relations and sophisticated judgments on the opportunities, pitfalls, and prospects for American China policy deserve wide attention.”–Alice Miller, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

“This book is unusually important–a ‘must-read’ by specialists who are concerned with U.S.-China relations.”–Robert Sutter, Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Michael D. Swaine is a senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment’s Asia Program. He specializes in Chinese security and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international relations. One of the most prominent American analysts in Chinese security studies, he is the author of several books and papers on security policy in the region.