Has China Won?
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A leading global public intellectual explains how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.




A leading global public intellectual explains how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.
Múry pribúdajú a sú čoraz vyššie. Nacionalizmus a politika identity sú opäť na vzostupe. Za ostatné desaťročie sme postavili tisícky kilometrov plotov a bariér, ktoré nanovo pretvárajú politickú mapu sveta. Autor svetového bestselleru V zajatí geografie ponúka napínavú a prenikavú analýzu zlomov, múrov, bariér a plotov, ktoré rozdeľujú súčasnú Čínu, Spojené štáty, Izrael a Palestínu, Blízky východ, indický subkontinent, Afriku, Európu a Spojené kráľovstvo, a ktoré budú formovať podobu sveta v nadchádzajúcich rokoch. Existuje mnoho dôvodov, prečo medzi sebou staviame múry: bohatstvo, rasa, náboženské presvedčenie, politika. Zlomy ostatného desaťročia neohrozujú iba jednotnosť Európy, ale v niektorých krajinách aj liberálnu demokraciu samotnú. Porozumieť tomu, čo nás rozdelilo, rozdeľuje a bude rozdeľovať, je kľúčom k pochopeniu toho, čo sa deje v dnešnom svete.
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides. Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.