Culture | Seeking world domination
China aims to eclipse America by 2049, a Biden official writes
Rush Doshi argues that China has long had a grand strategy for supremacy
The Long Game. By Rush Doshi. Oxford University Press; 432 pages; $27.95. To be published in Britain in September; £21.99
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