The China Strategy

In 2015, Beijing Identified ten strategic industries it intended to dominate-including robotics, aerospace, semiconductors, electric vehicles, biotechnology and advanced materials-and called it Made in China 2025. Two years earlier, it had launched the Belt and Road Initiative, now reaching roughly 150 nations through Chinese-financed infrastructure, trade and investment.

It is working.

The China Strategy is Michael Shaw's examination of what China built while the West wasn't watching-and how industrial strength became geopolitical leverage.

Drawing on more than twenty years in procurement and supply chain management, Shaw traces the dependencies hidden inside the modern economy: the rare earths essential to advanced weapons, the semiconductors behind critical technologies, pharmaceutical precursors, batteries, port cranes and the global supply chains that connect them. What appears to be ordinary commerce can become strategic leverage.

Across thirty-one chapters, Shaw follows China's rise from the factory floor to the Taiwan Strait. He examines Made in China 2025, the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese manufacturing, supply-chain dependence, critical minerals, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, military power, economic influence and the growing strategic competition between China and the United States.

He also examines a question with consequences far beyond Washington and Beijing: What happens when one country controls enough of the things the rest of the world cannot easily replace?

This is not simply a book about China. It is about the changing balance of economic, technological and geopolitical power-and the vulnerabilities created when nations become dependent on a strategic competitor.

The competition is not coming.

You are already living in it.