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A fast-paced account of America's plunge into parallel cold wars with two very different adversaries — Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia.

New Cold Wars — the latest book by Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon, David E. Sanger — tells the gripping story of America at a crossroads. At the start of the millennium, the United States was convinced that a democratic Russia and a prosperous China could gradually join the Western-led order; this proved to be a fantasy. As Washington recovered from the terror era, the three nuclear powers were engaging in a high-stakes competition for military, economic, and technological supremacy — with nations around the globe forced to choose sides.

Interviewing a remarkable array of top U.S. officials, global leaders, and tech companies caught on the front lines, Sanger weaves a compelling narrative around the critical questions of the era. Will Putin’s poorly conceived invasion of Ukraine prove his undoing, and will it escalate to nuclear weapons?

Will China react to the U.S. chip ban or seize Taiwan, the world’s semiconductor capital?

From the battlefields in Ukraine — where trench warfare and cyber warfare are conducted side by side — to the halls and offices where diplomats, spies, and tech executives fight for geopolitical supremacy, New Cold Wars is an astonishing first-draft history capturing America's return to superpower conflicts, the choices ahead, and what's at stake for the United States and the world.

Pages: 528, Dimensions: 15.3x15.3cm