"In this provocative new essay, Zachary Karabell lucidly sketches out the tectonic shifts that now compel us to redefine how we relate to China. Karabell's is an urgent call for Americans to shake off their torpor and complacency before it is too late and recognize how China has changed the global equation." -Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society
"Few countries will have more impact on the world in the coming decades than China. How the United States manages its relationship with China will profoundly affect the shape of this century. In this provocative book, Zachary Karabell suggests ways to manage that future. His argument might be debated, but it is one that should be engaged."
-Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University and author of The Powers to Lead
"Zachary Karabell provides a vividly written and timely reminder of the risk of mutually assured economic destruction that binds America and China and the importance of this relationship for the future of the global economy. The financial crisis has made this interdependence only more obvious-and the need to think through its implications more urgent." -Ian Bremmer, author of The J Curve:
A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
"Our world order is like a stool-and China and America are its most important legs. If either is destabilized, everyone loses. Through investment, production, and trade, almost every brand name Americans know has a stake in the success of 'Chimerica.' Karabell presents not only an intimate portrait of how the world's most strategic economic marriage came into being—and how it prevented the present financial crisis from being so much worse-but also a timely and precise strategy for keeping the global financial order in balance."
-Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century