Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Eighteen posts. One book. Here is where I land after retelling James A. Fok’s Financial Cold War from start to finish.
Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
The policy chapters are over. Fok steps back and gets personal. This afterword is where the book stops sounding like a market infrastructure manual and starts sounding like a worried father in Hong Kong.
Book: Financial Cold War
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Previous: Funny Money and Market Limits
Chapter 8 is Fok’s closing argument. Kissinger opens with a warning: a new Cold War would be a historic tragedy if conflict is avoidable. The book spent seven chapters building the case that financial imbalances, not just ideology, drive Sino-US tension. Now Fok asks what to do about it.
Book: Financial Cold War
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Previous: Are Markets Efficient? Part 1
The second half of Chapter 7 is about debt, money printing, and the gap between what markets promise and what they deliver. Fok does not trash central banks for acting in crisis. He asks whether the cure is creating new diseases.
Book: Financial Cold War
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Previous: Geo-Economic Warfare and the Dollar Weapon
Chapter 7 asks a basic question we skip too often. What are financial markets actually for? Fok opens with a Depression-era cartoon caption: “Phew! That’s a nasty leak. Thank goodness it’s not at our end of the boat.”
Book: Financial Cold War
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Previous: Is This a New Cold War? Part 1
The second half of Chapter 6 moves from rhetoric and taxes into the financial battlefield. Words matter. But Fok’s real concern is what happens when the conflict stops being verbal and starts hitting markets, supply chains, and payment systems.
Book: Financial Cold War
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
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Chapter 6 opens with a quote from Helmut Schmidt: monetary policy is foreign policy. Fok then walks through centuries of European power politics to make a simple point. National interest drives alliances, but leaders who misread their moment can drag everyone into catastrophe.
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Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Chapter 1 opens with Deng Xiaoping in 1978: emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, unite and look forward. Fok’s ask is the same. Look at the facts. Especially the financial ones.
Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
Before James A. Fok gets into Bretton Woods or dollar weaponization, he tells you where he comes from. The preface is personal. This book is written by someone who lived inside the machine he is trying to describe.
Book: Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
If you follow the news, you have heard a lot about the US-China rivalry. Trade wars. Tech bans. Tariffs. Military posturing in the South China Sea. Hong Kong. Taiwan. The headlines are loud and they keep getting louder.