Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

When Hu Jintao, China's current leader, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs had played in helping China experiment with private enterprise. Four years later, Paulson (now Treasury Secretary) was looking at the world's second largest economy and fastest modernizing military from a different perspective--that of a statesman who was responsible for safeguarding the U.S. financial system from a behemoth he had helped to empower.

In DEALING WITH CHINA, the bestselling author of On The Brink draws on his unprecedented access to both the political and business leaders of modern China to answer several key questions:

How did China become an economic superpower so quickly?
Who really runs China?
How does business gets done there?
What are the best ways for Western business and political leaders to engage, compete and beat China?
How can Western investors profit in China?
Can China be stopped?

DEALING WITH CHINA is written in the same anecdote-rich, page-turning style as his memoir, On The Brink.

Henry M. Paulson, Jr. served under President George W. Bush as the 74th Secretary of the Treasury from June 2006 until January 2009. Before coming to Treasury, Paulson was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs since the firm's initial public offering in 1999. He joined Goldman Sachs Chicago Office in 1974 and rose through the ranks holding several positions including, Managing Partner of the firm's Chicago office, Co-head of the firm's investment Banking Division, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Co-Senior partner.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Paulson was a member of the White House Domestic Council, serving as Staff Assistant to the President from 1972 to 1973, and as Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon from 1970 to 1972.

Paulson graduated from Dartmouth in 1968, where he majored in English, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an All Ivy, All East football player. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1970.