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Ben Mah's book is an excellent warning of the problems - indeed, economic depth charges - that were planted in China by the neoliberals who have destroyed nearly every economy where their advice was followed. "China and the World" describes what China should accept and what it should reject in Western advice. This book explodes the myth of "China's Rise", reveals the truth about how China's economic policies have been misguided by neoliberalism. This is a good book that anyone concerned about China's future should not miss. The essays in this book deserve great attention. This book helps us re-think policies and eliminate the influence of neoliberal ideology. Mah's work is a biting revelation of the unpleasant reality that lies behind such currently popular buzzwords as "privatization", "marketization", "freedom of capital flow" and "free trade".

"Chimerica-a Tale of Two Nations", Ben Mah's seventh book, flatly rejects American historian Niall Ferguson's notion that the symbiotic economic relationship between America and China built over the past decade is a marriage made in heaven. On the contrary, China, by allowing American multinational corporations to exploit her cheap and productive labor, degrade her environment and deplete her natural resources, has paid a heavy price and will face immense obstacles to her future development. This book also reveals that Washington, not satisfied with the enviable position it achieved in dealing with China economically, also "developed a detailed, complex and multi-pronged strategy to undermine China's rise to global preeminence." Indeed, to serve its geopolitical interests, America has adopted a policy of confrontation against China by forming alliances and building military bases among her neighbors.

America in the Age of Neoliberalism is an informative and hard-hitting account of America's decline as the world's only super-power. It offers a good deal of food for thought, in particular, for American readers desiring a real change of direction. Chinese readers, on the other hand, will find this book most valuable in terms of its profound insight, critical perspective, and vast amout of information compiled from a wide body of English Language source materials. This book explains how neoliberalism is an attack by U.S. Financial interests not only on other countries by imposing austerity on them, but on the domestic U.S. economy itself. It shows how other countries cannot expect the United States to be an "engine of growth", but need to face the reality that the US is a net burden on the world economy.