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The rationale behind anti-China sentiments

ADDRESSING a recent phenomenon of burgeoning antiChina sentiments across the globe, ChinaPhobia — A Wasted Opportunity is an unprecedented book asserting the logic behind this phenomenon and its impact on the lives of people around the world.

Written as a conversation between a father and son: a former journalist, senior diplomat and academic, and revered businessman and academic who has lived most of his life in China, this book presents a unique unbiased observational perspective that will catalyze new thinking within and toward China.

Deeply researched, ChinaPhobia addresses some of the issues caused by Chinese problematic behavior and policies while encouraging readers to have a better understanding of the world’s most populated country, which is often described as the “factory of the world.”

Dr. Mohammed Kheir Alwadi, the author, was born in 1948. He studied Media and Publicity at Moscow State University from 1968 to 1974, from where he received his master’s degree. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, of which he became an integral member. He served as a director for foreign radio stations in Radio Damascus in 1975, then as a general director of Syrian Radio in 1977.

In the period 19781980, he was the director of Syrian National Television. He became chief editor, general director general of Alwahda Foundation for Press and Publishing, and chief editor of AlThawra newspaper in Syria from 1980 to 1990.

In 1990, he became director general for Tishreen Foundation for Press and Publishing and the chief editor for Tishreen newspaper. He has written many political articles and studies about international affairs and ChineseArab relations.

Karim currently holds the following positions: a fellow of Ren Min University Middle East and African Studies Institute, senior fellow at the Institute of Global Governance and Development at Tong Ji University in Shanghai, ChinaArab State Expo, advisory board member, cofounder of the Saving Syrian Children Program, a charity program initiated in 2017, with a focus on providing aid to Syrian families affected by war, fellow of the Aspen InstituteGlobal leaders Program, YPO (Young President Organization) Beijing Chapter member and the author of the book Real Story of Hezbollah (Chinese), recipient of the 2019 McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund.

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