PositiveFinancial TimesMagnus is particularly acute on the renminbi, and Beijing’s pretensions to turn it into a global currency on par with the dollar ... Magnus could have looked above the parapet more often, to put the voluminous detail he has assembled on to a grander stage, in his case, of economic history. In the end, Magnus emerges as cautiously pessimistic, comparing Xi’s outward omnipotence with the brittleness displayed throughout the Chinese system ... The reader in me would have liked starker, more dramatic judgments ... The analyst in me, however, respects the author[\'s] caution.
