1. Geoff Dyer, The Contest of the Century: The New of Competition with China—and How America Can Win (New York: Vintage, 2014), pp. 14–15.
2. Examples include Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, 2014); Timothy Beardson, Stumbling Giant (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013); Mel Gurtov, Will This Be China’s Century? (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner 2013); Jonathan Fenby, Will China Dominate the 21st Century? (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2014).
3. Wang Jisi, “China’s Search for a Grand Strategy: A Rising Great Power Finds Its Way,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 3 (2011), pp. 68–79.
4. Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (New York: Penguin, 2009).
5. Joseph Nye, “American and Chinese Power after the Financial Crisis,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2010), pp. 143–153; Dyer, The Contest of the Century.