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When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, most experts expected the WTO rules and procedures would liberalize China and make it "a responsible stakeholder in the liberal world order". But the experts made the wrong bet. China today is liberalizing neither economically nor politically but, if anything, becoming more authoritarian and mercantilist. In this book, renowned globalization and Asia expert Clyde Prestowitz describes the key challenges posed by China and the strategies America and the Free World must adopt to meet them.

Welcome to exciting new weekly podcasts from top historians, all about the British Civil Wars.

I grew up in New Zealand Aotearoa and have lived almost as long again in Australia. Both these small ex-British colonies have in many ways depended upon their bigger sibling countries like England and the United States for cultural imports. Every overseas Amityville horror or Exorcist or Rendlesham or Roswell incident titillated and thrilled us, as if we didn’t have our own spooks and mysteries to scare us. The truth of the matter is that both countries have more than enough stories to tell. This podcast will tell some of those stories. What were the mysterious lights over Kaikoura, New...

A spooky podcast that will dive deep into the mysteries of the world, the criminally insane, and everything in-between. Come join Summer Joy and Nickolas on this new adventure as they see where this journey takes them! Stay connected and follow our Instagram @entering.the.upside.down and Twitter at @enteringthedown. Shoot us an email at @enteringtheupsidedown with questions, comments and spooky stories of your own! We would love to share some to our listeners in the future. We are also now live on Facebook! Be sure to follow Entering The Upside Down on Facebook and stay connected with this ...

A spooky podcast that will dive deep into the mysteries of the world, the criminally insane, and everything in-between. Come join Summer Joy on this new adventure as they see where this journey takes us! Stay connected and follow on Instagram @entering.the.upside.down and Twitter at @enteringthedown. Shoot an email at @enteringtheupsidedown with questions, comments and spooky stories of your own! I would love to share some to our listeners in the future. We are also now live on Facebook! Visual podcast episode is on YouTube at Summer Joy Beaulieu YouTube channel.

Worlds Turned Upside Down tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war through the lives of people who experienced it. For many modern citizens of the United States, "the cause of America" that gave birth to a new nation in 1776 and the heroic stories we tell ourselves about its founding remains "in great measure the cause of all mankind." But for the people who lived through it, the revolutionary era upended their lives in ways they could have never imagined. The crisis that engulfed the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century inspired ...