Alperovitch and Graff make clear how gravely they view Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s threat to Taiwan by beginning with a carefully drawn description of a hypothetical Chinese invasion of the island in the days immediately following the 2028 U.S. presidential election. A full-blown second Cold War is already underway, the authors believe, and Taiwan is as imminent a flash point as Berlin was before the Soviet construction of a wall through the city imposed a degree of stability. To avoid a