New Cold Wars
About This Book
For decades, American leaders assumed that a newly democratic Russia and an increasingly prosperous China could be drawn into a Western-led order, one that offered peace and prosperity as long as both accepted Washington's terms. By the time the United States stepped back from the age of terrorism, that assumption had proved to be a fantasy. David Sanger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist who also wrote The Perfect Weapon, traces how America slid into a dangerous rivalry with the world's other two great nuclear powers, Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia. The contest now spans military strength, economic muscle, political influence and technological dominance, and countries everywhere are being pushed to pick a side. Yet none of the three powers is operating in the world it expected. Each is finding the international landscape far more unstable than its planners imagined, and each has been forced to improvise. Sanger builds the account on interviews with senior figures from five presidential administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments and technology companies. Those conversations frame the questions that hang over the era. Will Putin's blunders in Ukraine bring him down, or will he reach for nuclear weapons? Will the West's short attention span doom Kyiv? Will Xi move against Taiwan? Will the two leaders deepen their partnership to weaken American power? And can a politically divided United States still lead? The story moves from Ukrainian battlefields, where Russia relies on North Korean ammunition and Iranian drones, to the Taiwanese facilities that make the world's most advanced computer chips, and into the tense deliberations of the White House Situation Room. Sanger presents it as a first draft of history, a look at America's return to great-power conflict and the high stakes of the choices still to come.
ISBN: 9780593443613
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