New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

New Cold Wars-the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon, David E. Sanger-is a fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous confrontations against two very different adversaries. 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 messier world than imagined.

Based on a remarkable array of interviews with top officials from five administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments, and tech companies on the front lines, 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 trench warfare and cyberwarfare are interwoven-to the Taiwan headquarters where the world's most advanced computer chips are produced, to tense debates in the White House Situation Room,