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Pub. Date
2025.
Description
"For close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang has been living through the country's astonishing, messy progress. China's towering bridges, gleaming railways, and sprawling factories have improved economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain through the society. This reality--political repression and astonishing growth--is not a paradox, but rather a feature of China's engineering mindset. In Breakneck, Wang...
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Series
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"Seven Things You Can't Say About China is Tom Cotton's provocative exposé about the gravest threat to American freedom. The media, Hollywood, academia, Wall Street, and most politicians can't-or won't-speak the truth about China. But Senator Cotton will, because America needs to know"-- Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 42 min., 14 sec.)) : color and sound.
Description
Since embracing capitalistic policies in the late 20th century, China has become an economic and military powerhouse, as well as one of the United States' top trading partners. But it has also acted aggressively in the South China Sea and often backs American adversaries. Does China's ascendancy benefit the United States, or threaten it? Are China and the United States long-term allies-or enemies?
Pub. Date
c2009
Formats
Description
"Presents policy options available to the U.S. in crafting a new strategy toward Iran. Considers four solutions: diplomacy, military, regime change, and containment, pointing out that none is ideal and all involve heavy costs, significant risks, and potentially painful trade-offs. Addresses how these could be combined, producing an integrated strategy"--Provided by publisher.
19) Vietnam
Series
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (72 min.) : sd., col. + instructional materials (online)
Description
A part of the series America in the 20th Century. It was the longest war in America's history and the most divisive in more than a century. This program explores the genesis of America's painful military "quagmire" from the roots of Vietnamese nationalism through a century of French colonial rule to the first Indochina war; it then takes viewers from John F. Kennedy's initial deployment of military advisers through increases and escalations under...





