7 must-read china books like The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan by Matt Pottinger

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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

By: Matt Pottinger

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has openly expressed his intention to annex Taiwan to mainland China, eve…

If you liked the china plot in The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan by Matt Pottinger , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Future of War: A History

By: Lawrence Freedman

4.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought… read more

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2. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • history
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3. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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5. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

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6. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

By: Desmond Shum

3.91

Format: None pages, Audiobook

This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • history
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7. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI book and Matt Pottinger's The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

  • nonfiction
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8. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

9. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • history
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10. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

By: Mick Ryan

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more

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  • politics
  • china
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11. Focus: De wereld van ASML

By: Marc Hijink

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Marc Hijink schrijft een bijzonder inside portret van het Nederlandse miljardenbedrijf ASML en het … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between by Sulmaan Wasif Khan

12. The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between

By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A concise, definitive history of the duel between the US and China over the fate of Taiwan  As ten… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • history
Cover of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century by Dmitri Alperovitch

13. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

By: Dmitri Alperovitch

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a f… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • history
Cover of The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan by Matt Pottinger

14. The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

By: Matt Pottinger

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has openly expressed his intention to annex Taiwan to mainland China, eve… read more

Similar categories in Matt Pottinger's The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan book and Matt Pottinger's The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • history
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

15. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj Shah

17. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

By: Raj Shah

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5) by James S.A. Corey

18. Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.45

Format: 90 pages, ebook

Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the e… read more

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Cover of The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3) by David McCloskey

19. The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3)

By: David McCloskey

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other … read more

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20. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

Cover of Geostrategy By Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization by Courtney Rickert McCaffrey

21. Geostrategy By Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization

By: Courtney Rickert McCaffrey

2.00

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

International business needs to begin taking geopolitical risks and opportunities much more serious… read more

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4.01

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4.19

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Kai-Fu Lee

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Mo Gawdat

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