This book analyzes the most confronting geopolitical and economic domains of contemporary autocracy and democracy. Its analysis is structured into 13 touch-points (chapters) and comprises 131 pages filled in with plain text, numeric data, and charts. The comparative basis on the side of autocracy is mainly focused on China, as Russia is considered only in a supplementary context. Each touchpoint (chapter) ends with some thematic conclusions. The principal conclusion is that China uses its economy as a geopolitical weapon, pressing the West to deindustrialize through its industrial surplus exports worldwide. The West still can defend itself by combining the military power of the U.S., setting trade barriers, making massive investments in near (friendly)-shoring over the most dynamic economic regions in the world, and signing a revised TPP. As my analysis shows, China practically competes with the West's geopolitical dysfunctunality by a low productive economy. However, it does not diminish its competitive potential. And the West does not have too many protective tools either ...
