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China vs America: A Warning by Oliver Letwin review – an uneasy truce… or Armageddon

In this elegant study, the former Conservative minister warns that the US must rethink its relationship with China and embrace a peaceful rivalry

That China is an economic superpower rivalling, if not surpassing, the US is not a secret. Political scientists have been debating the implications of that fact for most of this century, and there’s little consensus.

What’s clear is that under President Xi Jinping China has been more forthright about its global economic ambitions, not least with the vast and much touted belt and road project. But it has also begun to flex its political and military muscles more openly in its extended neighbourhood.

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