Han Shih Toh 
IS CHINA A MENACING EMPIRE? [EPUB ebook] 

China’s economic impact on the world, through trade, investment and infrastructure projects, is huge and growing rapidly. This has received criticism from officials and politicians in various countries including the US, who accused China of neo-colonialism, setting debt traps in other countries and corruption in overseas Chinese deals. This book examines how justified such accusations are and seeks to comment on them in an objective manner. This book also explores the tensions between China and the US.

Contents:

• Anxieties Over China’s Global Rise


• Is China Laying Debt Traps?


• Corruption


• Along the Ancient Silk Road


• Hong Kong: China’s World City


• A Trading Colossus Shakes the World


• Prospects of War between China and America


• Managing a Giant

Readership: General public, university students, academics, financial analysts and geopolitical analysts who are interested in China and Sino-US Relations.

Toh Han Shih is a Singaporean man living in Hong Kong. He is the chief analyst of Headland Intelligence, a Hong Kong risk consultancy. He is also an associate director of Strategia Worldwide, a UK strategic risk advisory firm. Previously, he was a journalist covering China for more than 12 years with various publications including South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s main English-language newspaper.

‘Is China a Menacing Empire is a timely, thought provoking and well researched consideration of one of the major geopolitical challenges of the age. It provides depth, historical context and essential insights into the implications of China’s continued meteoric rise to become a global power. It is essential reading to any policy maker or business leader.’ — British General Sir Richard Shirreff NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (2011–14)

‘Toh Han Shih’s book explains why China does not embark on projects in other countries in order to have them fail. It much prefers them to succeed and create win-win outcomes.’ — George Yeo Former Singapore Foreign Minister

‘Toh Han Shih has written another important book on China. It is timely as the West has demonized China as a threat to them and to the world.’ — Tommy Koh Singapore Ambassador

‘Dr Toh’s sweeping review of China’s global influence is packed with fascinating historical analogies and contemporary anecdotes. Having already dispelled the idea of China as an imperial power in his previous book, he takes on the more urgent question of whether Chinese economic expansion abroad should be seen as menacing. His answer is nuanced and contingent, and it is set against the bigger question of how the US and other Western powers will seek to block Chinese ascendancy. In so doing, he is providing not just fresh analysis of a complex situation, but also a way forward.’ — The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo Independent Senator Parliament of Canada