Dealing with China An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

When Hu Jintao, China's current leader, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs had played in helping China experiment with private enterprise. As the two men stared at the physical destruction Al Qaeda had unleashed on US soil, Paulson was standing next to the man who embodied a greater threat--and a greater opportunity--for the US in the years ahead. InDEALING WITH CHINA, the bestselling author ofOn The Brinkdraws on his unprecedented access to both the political and business leaders of modern China to answer several key questions: How did China become an economic superpower so quickly? Who really runs China? How does business gets done there? What are the best ways for Western business and political leaders to engage, compete and beat China? How can Western investors profit in China? Can China be stopped? DEALING WITH CHINAis written in the same anecdote-rich, page-turning style as his memoir,On The Brink. If his last book was about the hot war of the financial crisis; his current project is about cold war. And cold war often makes for more interesting reading.

As the CEO of Goldman Sachs from 1999-2006 and then as the Treasury Secretary of the United States from 2006-2009, Hank Paulson has sat across the bargaining table from countless Chinese politicians as both a banker and a statesman. Since leaving Washington, the former Treasury Secretary has worked on bridging the gap between East and West through The Paulson Institute, which he describes not as a think tank but as a "think and do" tank.