A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two
decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing
power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America--from the renowned geopolitical
analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming
Anarchy. In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek
from Venice to China. The strength of that Silk Road--the trade route between
Europe and Asia--was the foundation of Kublai Khan's sprawling empire. Now, in
the early twenty-first century, the Chinese regime has proposed a
land-and-maritime Silk Road that duplicates exactly the route Marco Polo
traveled.
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