The Long Game, by Rush Doshi

The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (2021)

The perspective from a China hawk who sees China as a direct threat to the American order, built on close reading of Chinese-language party sources. Whatever you conclude, this is the most rigorous version of the position currently driving American policy, which makes it worth your time regardless of your priors.

Read it asking: How would the mirror of this book read in China? What is America’s grand strategy to maintain the American order?