Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
The inside story of the US–China trade war, “especially insightful on how the contradictory natures of Trump and Xi have impeded understanding” (The Boston Globe).

This book reveals how relations between China and the United States unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, told by two Wall Street Journal reporters—one a Pulitzer Prize winner based in Washington, DC, the other in Beijing—who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.

The trade battle between China and the US didn’t start with Trump and won’t end with him, argue Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. The countries have a long and fraught political and economic history, which has become more contentious in recent years—an escalation that has negatively impacted both countries’ economies and the world at large—and holds the potential for even more uncertainty and disruption.

How did this standoff happen? How much are US presidents and officials who haven’t effectively confronted or negotiated with China to blame? What role have Chinese leaders, and US business leaders who for decades acted as Beijing’s lobbyists in Washington, played in driving these tensions? Superpower Showdown is the story of a romance gone bad, based on the authors’ hundreds of interviews with government and business officials in both nations over seven years. They explain how we reached this tipping point—and look at where we could be headed.

“Essential reading for anyone concerned about America’s economic future.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A must-read for anyone interested in what happened between China and the United States, likely the world’s most important economic relationship.” —Forbes
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Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
The inside story of the US–China trade war, “especially insightful on how the contradictory natures of Trump and Xi have impeded understanding” (The Boston Globe).

This book reveals how relations between China and the United States unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, told by two Wall Street Journal reporters—one a Pulitzer Prize winner based in Washington, DC, the other in Beijing—who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.

The trade battle between China and the US didn’t start with Trump and won’t end with him, argue Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. The countries have a long and fraught political and economic history, which has become more contentious in recent years—an escalation that has negatively impacted both countries’ economies and the world at large—and holds the potential for even more uncertainty and disruption.

How did this standoff happen? How much are US presidents and officials who haven’t effectively confronted or negotiated with China to blame? What role have Chinese leaders, and US business leaders who for decades acted as Beijing’s lobbyists in Washington, played in driving these tensions? Superpower Showdown is the story of a romance gone bad, based on the authors’ hundreds of interviews with government and business officials in both nations over seven years. They explain how we reached this tipping point—and look at where we could be headed.

“Essential reading for anyone concerned about America’s economic future.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A must-read for anyone interested in what happened between China and the United States, likely the world’s most important economic relationship.” —Forbes
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Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

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The inside story of the US–China trade war, “especially insightful on how the contradictory natures of Trump and Xi have impeded understanding” (The Boston Globe).

This book reveals how relations between China and the United States unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, told by two Wall Street Journal reporters—one a Pulitzer Prize winner based in Washington, DC, the other in Beijing—who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.

The trade battle between China and the US didn’t start with Trump and won’t end with him, argue Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. The countries have a long and fraught political and economic history, which has become more contentious in recent years—an escalation that has negatively impacted both countries’ economies and the world at large—and holds the potential for even more uncertainty and disruption.

How did this standoff happen? How much are US presidents and officials who haven’t effectively confronted or negotiated with China to blame? What role have Chinese leaders, and US business leaders who for decades acted as Beijing’s lobbyists in Washington, played in driving these tensions? Superpower Showdown is the story of a romance gone bad, based on the authors’ hundreds of interviews with government and business officials in both nations over seven years. They explain how we reached this tipping point—and look at where we could be headed.

“Essential reading for anyone concerned about America’s economic future.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A must-read for anyone interested in what happened between China and the United States, likely the world’s most important economic relationship.” —Forbes

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062953063
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/21/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 471
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Bob Davis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior editor covering economic issues at the Wall Street Journal’s Washington D.C. bureau, and continues to write about China, where he was posted from 2011 to 2014. He has served as the Journal’s bureau chief in Brussels covering the European Union, and as the Latin America bureau chief. He lives in Washington, D.C.


Lingling Wei is an award-winning senior China correspondent, who was based in the Wall Street Journal’s Beijing bureau from 2011 until China expelled Journal reporters in the spring of 2020. Hailing from a farm province in southeastern China, she came of age as a journalist in New York and then returned to China in early 2011 to report on changes in her homeland. She is now based in New York and focuses on the intersection of Chinese politics and the economy.

Table of Contents

A Note to Readers ix

Introduction: Threat of War, December 2018 1

1 Miscalculations, April-May 2019 13

2 China's Rise, 1980s and 1990s 37

3 Taking On China, 1993 53

4 Boss Zhu Arrives, April 1999 65

5 Nailing Jell-O to the Wall, March 2000 87

6 China to the Rescue, 2008 99

7 American Backlash, 2009 115

8 The Leaders: Trump's China; Xi's America 135

9 Flood the Zone, December 2016 159

10 Things Fall Apart, Summer-Fall 2017 175

11 Liu He Gets a Lecture, March 2018 197

12 American Disarray, May 2018 215

13 A Buying Mission, June 2018 231

14 The Complaint: Chinese Arm-Twisting 249

15 Old Friends No More, September 2018 271

16 Couples Therapy, Fall 2018 289

17 Ping-Pong Diplomacy, January 2019 313

18 Bring Your Companies Home, August 2019 335

19 Negotiating a Truce, December 2019-January 2020 359

20 Looking Ahead: Cold War II 387

Epilogue 415

Acknowledgments 423

Notes 427

Index 445

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