William Overholt

William H. Overholt, Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of China’s Crisis of Success and Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics, among other works.

William's recent articles

A new game in a new era: China is playing it right, the US is not

China and the United States are in a different game than the rising power/established power conflicts of the past. Most analyses of such rivalries are based on preWorld War II history and fail to notice that the game changed radically after World War II. Sometimes when alterations are made in the rules or implements of a game, the risks and the optimal strategies change.

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