Tony Abbott Wrote a Book Review on China

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Tony Abbott, Clash of the Titans. Competition between China and America, two immensely proud nations, is inevitable. The challenge is staving off global catastrophe. Wall Street Journal, Jan 9, 2017
http://www.wsj.com/articles/clash-of-the-titans-1483913998
(book review on Michael R Auslin, The End of the Asian Century. War, stagnation, and the risks to the world's most dynamic region. Yale University Press, Aug 3, 2016)

two consecutive paragraphs:

"Of course, the United States should aim to contain China, writes Mr Auslin, and there’s no point pretending otherwise. But the US should be actively pursuing a policy of both containment and engagement. For one, argues Mr Auslin, there should be more U.S. naval power in the region and beefed up defense cooperation with Japan, South Korea, Australia and India “to address significant security issues and try to set regional standards and norms.”

"It shouldn't stop there, though. Freer trade and investment between the US and Asia, especially China, is important to build trust as well as prosperity. Mr Auslin cites a Japanese study suggesting that 60% of the profit from a 'Chinese made' iPhone actually accrues to the U.S. via Apple and other American firms. According to Mark Perry, an economist Mr Auslin cites, in 2010 America enjoyed a $32 billion 'value-added' trade surplus with China, not a $133 billion deficit.

Note:
(a) What is noted is the reviewer is Tony Abbott ((Liberal Party; beat Kevin Rudd's Labor government and became Australia's prime minister 2013-2015, then lost leadership challenge from Malcolm Turnbull of his own party in 2015 -- but retains his parliament seat)
(b) The review itself is not out of box, perhaps the book itself is conventional.

(c) "Ronald Reagan, echoing the Founding Fathers, used to express this by describing America as a 'shining city on a hill' and as the 'last best hope of mankind.' "
(i) Reagan: America was "a shining city on a hill." Take notice where the quotation marks starts and ends. The source is his Jan 11, 1989 farewell address to the nation.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/american ... es/reagan-farewell/

two consecutive paragraphs:

"I've thought a bit of the 'shining city upon a hill.' The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free. I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

"And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

(ii) City upon a Hill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill

Take notice
(A) these were Puritans who founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston in 1630, compared with Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1820.
(B) John Winthrop would be governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony off and on from 1630 and 1649 (when he died). Plymouth Colony had its own governor from 1620 on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop
(section 3.1 A Model of Christian Charity)
(C) City of Boston has a Beacon Hill, where the State House is located.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Hill,_Boston
(section 1 Etymology)
(iii) Ronald Reagan's speech A Time for Choosing, presented on Oct 27, 1964, at the Sunset Young Republican Club in Los Angeles on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater a week before the 1964 election.
www.nationalcenter.org/ReaganChoosing1964.html
("You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness")