Elizabeth C. Economy, on leave from her position as senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, is Senior Advisor (for China) to the Secretary of Commerce. Previously she was C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an award-winning author and internationally renowned expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy and US-China relations. Her books The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State, By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World (with Michael Levi), and The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (2nd edition) are widely acclaimed and her writings have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. A frequent guest on nationally broadcast radio and television, she has testified before Congress on US-China-related matters. Politico Magazine has named her one of "The 10 Names That Matter on China Policy".

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Chapter 1: Politics and the Plague
Chapter 2: Power, Power, Power
Chapter 3: Reunifying the Motherland
Chapter 4: The Dragon's Bite
Chapter 5: From Bricks to Bits
Chapter 6: Rewriting the Rules of the Game
Chapter 7: The China Reset
Acknowledgements
Notes