Sea change in Asia

This is the latest in a series of insightful books, like The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy, in which Robert D Kaplan, the chief geopolitical analyst at the global intelligence company Stratfor, tries to explain how geography determines destiny - and what we should be doing about it. Asia's Cauldron is a short book with a powerful thesis, and it stands out for its clarity and good sense from the great mass of Western writing on what Chinese politicians have taken to calling their "peaceful development".

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