No Limits: The Inside Story of China’s War With the West

Authors

Thomas F. Lynch, Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Abstract

No Limits: The Inside Story of China’s War With the West is a valuable book. It is simultaneously analytical and personal. No Limits is an incisive, selective history about how the promise of China’s integration into Western economic systems and global institutions gave way to acrimony and rivalry. It also is author Andrew Small’s memoir about how his quarter-century-long iterative interactions with China evolved from hope and cautious optimism about Sino-global integration into resigned fatalism that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can never tolerate such a happy ending. The CCP must instead view itself as perpetual victim and implacable rival of the West.

Recommended Citation

Thomas F. Lynch, "No Limits: The Inside Story of China’s War With the West," Joint Force Quarterly 112 (1st Quarter 2024), https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/joint-force-quarterly/vol112/iss1/18.