The Split

Shaun Rein is a consistently challenging thinker and essential guide for anyone trying to make money in complex Chinese markets. The Split should be essential reading for any foreign investor trying to understand how a new era of geopolitical upheaval is going to make that task harder still. * James Crabtree, author of The Billionaire Raj * Shaun Rein's The Split is a highly readable and richly detailed field guide to foreign business opportunities in China during an era of heightened geopolitical rivalry with the U.S. and accompanying shifts in economic policies and regulation on both sides. Drawing on many years of on-the-ground experience and myriad interviews, Rein offers a nuanced account of which sectors remain promising, which do not and where new challenges may lurk. * Jacques deLisle, Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania * Based on decades of residing and researching the economic environment and policy making process of the Chinese central government, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in learning more about China's complex political and economic landscape. It presents a well-informed and in-depth analysis of the evolving and complex environment in China, and the challenges and opportunities for foreign investors posed by the growing geo-political tension and trust deficit between Washington and Beijing. * Ambassador L. Albert Mariner, Somoa's Ambassador to China *