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[Review] The Transpacific Experiment (Matt Sheehan) Summarized.
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The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future is a 2019 nonfiction book by journalist and China analyst Matt Sheehan. It examines the dense, often contradictory relationship between California and China as a practical window into broader US-China dynamics. Rather than focusing only on diplomacy or trade policy, the book looks at how students, entrepreneurs, local politicians, real estate buyers, filmmakers, and technology workers shape the relationship through everyday decisions. Sheehan argues that California functions as a kind of laboratory for understanding how the two powers increasingly depend on each other while also generating friction. The book is grounded in reporting and observation, and it draws much of its force from concrete examples in entertainment, technology, real estate, and education. Its purpose is to show that the future of US-China relations is not made only in Washington or Beijing, but also in local communities and private networks across California.
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