China Against America¿Wang Huning's Thought and the Making of China's Strategy Toward United States

Wang Huning once wrote America Against America, a book that saw the fissures behind America's strength. Borrowing the structure of that title, this book is called China Against America and asks the question in reverse: after America is no longer the sole model for China's modernization, how does China come to understand America anew, and how does it redefine itself?Taking Wang Huning's thought as its central thread, this book traces the formation and evolution of the CCP's strategy toward the United States. From Wang's political-science reflections during his Fudan years to his observations of America in America Against America; from the Jiang Zemin era's effort to "integrate into the world without changing the flag," to the Hu Jintao era's "harmonious world," and then to the Xi Jinping era's "Chinese Dream," "Chinese-style modernization," "institutional confidence," "spirit of struggle," and Taiwan strategy, this book reveals how a form of state discourse enters policy, and how America is gradually rewritten from model, textbook, and mirror into an adversary in institutional competition.This is not a simple anti-American book, nor is it a mysterious biography of Wang Huning. What it truly examines is how thought becomes a path, how language becomes strategy, and how U.S.-China relations have moved from frictions of interest toward a long-term struggle over institutions, technology, Taiwan, and the world order.