Containing China: A contemporary historical novel

In the early 21st century, China under the aegis of a communist party is expanding dramatically. Thomas Bremanger is late acknowledging China's exponential rise. When he gets to it, he is terrified; but he's at a station looking at the caboose of an already departed train. Expansions such as China's lead to geopolitical aspirations and inevitably create uncircumventable gravitational pulls. Like the impervious pitiless sun, supremacy radiates everywhere. Nations adapt to such ascendancies, ...