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China’s rising ambition: “China harbors the intention and, increasingly, the capacity to reshape the international order,” US President Joe Biden wrote in a national security strategy document earlier this month. This outlook is the crux of The Long Game, a book by Rush Doshi, the current director for China in the US National Security Council. In the book, Doshi argues that China is following a long-term plan to overtake the US as the world’s leading state by 2049. He draws on extensive research and Chinese primary sources including leaked documents, party documents, and memoirs written by party leaders to analyze China’s strategy dating back to the 1980s. In its final chapter the book offers “an asymmetric competitive strategy” that does not require matching China “USD-for-USD, ship-for-ship, loan-for-loan” to counter their long game. Given Doshi’s role, the book offers an insightful look into the American strategy regarding their rivalry with China and the future.