The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.–China relationship
There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral
victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and
Beijing, putting the most important relationship of the twenty-first
century in the hands of a novice who had bitterly attacked China from
the campaign trail. Almost as soon as he entered office, Trump brought
to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between the two countries, while
also striking up a “friendship” with Chinese president Xi
Jinping — whose manipulations of his American counterpart would
undermine the White House’s already disjointed response to the historic
challenge of a rising China. All the while, Trump’s own officials fought
to steer U.S. policy from within.
By the time the COVID-19
pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had
sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the
brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a
long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious
foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping
digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest
foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office.
Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled
access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the
country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour.
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