New Cold Wars: China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West

A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries — Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia — based on deep reporting.

New Cold Wars — the latest from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon, David E. Sanger — tells the riveting story of America at a crossroads. At the turn of the millennium, the United States was confident that a democratic Russia and a newly wealthy China could gradually be pulled into the Western-led order. That proved a fantasy. By the time Washington emerged from the age of terrorism, the three nuclear powers were engaged in a new, high-stakes struggle for military, economic, and technological supremacy — with nations around the world forced to take sides.

Interviewing a remarkable array of top officials in the United States, foreign leaders, and tech companies thrust onto the front...