NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The fast-paced inside story of America's plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers -- Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia -- from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon

"[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American officials have grappled with dangerous developments in the post-Cold War era... vividly captures Washington." -- The New York Times (Editors' Choice)

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For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace -- so long as they agreed to Washington's terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy.

Now the three powers are engaged in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, political, and technological supremacy, with nations around the world pressured to take sides. Yet all three are discovering that they are maneuvering for influence in a far more turbulent world than they imagined.

Based on a remarkable array of interviews with top officials from five presidential administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments, and tech companies, Sanger unfolds a riveting narrative spun around the era's critical questions: Will the mistakes Putin made in his invasion of Ukraine prove his undoing and will he reach for his nuclear arsenal -- or will the West's famously short attention span signal Kyiv's doom? Will Xi invade Taiwan? Will both men deepen their partnership to undercut America's dominance? And can a politically dysfunctional America still lead the world?

Taking readers from the battlefields of Ukraine -- where Russia uses bullets from North Korea and drones from Iran -- to the Taiwan headquarters where the world's most advanced computer chips are produced and on to tense debates in the White House Situation Room, New Cold Wars is a remarkable first-draft history chronicling America's return to superpower conflict, the choices that lie ahead, and what is at stake for the United States and the world.

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