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Superpower showdown : how the battle between Trump and Xi threatens a new cold war /

Davis, Bob, 1951-

Superpower showdown : how the battle between Trump and Xi threatens a new cold war / How the battle between Trump and Xi threatens a new cold war. Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. - First edition. - x, 467 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-443) and index.

A note to readers -- Introduction: Threat of war, December 2018 -- Miscalculations, April-May 2019 -- China's rise, 1980s and 1990s -- Taking on China, 1993 -- Boss Zhu arrives, April 1999 -- Nailing Jell-O to the wall, March 2000 -- China to the rescue, 2008 -- American backlash, 2009 -- The leaders: Trump's China; Xi's America -- Flood the zone, December 2016 -- Things fall apart, Summer-Fall 2017 -- Liu He gets a lecture, March 2018 -- American disarray, May 2018 -- A buying mission, June 2018 -- The complaint: Chinese arm-twisting -- Old friends no more, September 2018 -- Couples therapy, Fall 2018 -- Ping-Pong diplomacy, January 2019 -- Bring your companies home, August 2019 -- Negotiating a truce, December 2019-January 2020 -- Looking ahead: Cold War II.

"Wall Street Journal reporters Davis and Wei tell the inside story of the US-China trade war, examining how relations between China and the US, between Trump and Xi, have risen and fallen in the battle to become the world's sole economic and political superpower"--

9780062953056 0062953052

2020008253


Trump, Donald, 1946-
Xi, Jinping.


Diplomatic relations.
International economic relations.


China--Foreign relations--United States.
China--Foreign economic relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--China.
United States--Foreign economic relations--China.
China.
United States.

DS779.47 / .D388 2020

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