China’s Nightmare, America’s Dream: India as the Next Global Power is about what India needs to do to claim world power status. It tells the story of where India has come from (great wealth over much of the last two millennia), how far it has declined (hitting rock bottom in 1991), where it is today (still an emerging power, but full of natural advantages), and what it must do to claim its rightful place in the world (convert those advantages into raw power).  
Like the US a century ago and China thirty years ago, India too is on the verge of attaining great power status. But India has a problem. The world will not grant India that status simply because of its size and economic potential; India has to reach out and grab it. The problem: so far India has not demonstrated the will to do so. China’s Nightmare, America’s Dream is a frank critique of India’s national passivity in the conduct of its affairs, and a call to action for a more assertive India in every sphere to fostering innovation at home, instead of building intellectual property for other nations; aggressively promoting Indian culture overseas, instead of merely importing America’s; bringing the world’s talent to India, instead of sending India’s talent to the world; exponentially increasing military strength, instead of waiting for China to dominate Asia.
China’s Nightmare, America’s Dream is 72,000 words. It weaves together analyses of history, economics, foreign policy and social policy to chart the past, present and future of India’s rise to global power status. The book concludes by arguing that US and Indian policy makers should aim to make the bilateral relationship a 21st Century version of the US-British “special relationship.”  
The author is an India expert, historian, journalist and former US diplomat who is uniquely qualified to tell this story. He served in the South Asia Bureau of the US Department of State for several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including a posting to India at the time of the 1998 nuclear test.  

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