Scott M. Moore's China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future examines how Western governments can work with China to address issues that affect “global public goods”—defined as goods that “benefit the citizens of all countries, yet typically cannot be provided by any one country alone. They are critical and indispensable for peace, prosperity and even civilization itself” (2). Moore argues that China is an important player on these issues due to both its outsized global economic, financial, manufacturing, and geopolitical role and the fact its national government has become increasingly more illiberal and belligerent. Each of the six core chapters is dedicated to examining one such issue: health and infectious disease (chapter 2), environment and climate (chapter 3), global human capital and knowledge production (chapter 4), technology development and deployment (chapter 5), information security (chapter 6), and emerging technologies hazards (chapter 7)....
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