"Wall Street Journal reporters Davis and Wei tell the inside story of the US-China trade war, examining how relations between China and the US, between Trump and Xi, have risen and fallen in the battle to become the world's sole economic and political superpower"-- Provided by publisher.

A note to readers -- Introduction : Threat of war, December 2018 -- Miscalculations, April-May 2019 -- China's rise, 1980s and 1990s -- Taking on China, 1993 -- Boss Zhu arrives, April 1999 -- Nailing Jell-O to the wall, March 2000 -- China to the rescue, 2008 -- American backlash, 2009 -- The leaders : Trump's China; Xi's America -- Flood the zone, December 2016 -- Things fall apart, Summer-Fall 2017 -- Liu He gets a lecture, March 2018 -- American disarray, May 2018 -- A buying mission, June 2018 -- The complaint: Chinese arm-twisting -- Old friends no more, September 2018 -- Couples therapy, Fall 2018 -- Ping-Pong diplomacy, January 2019 -- Bring your companies home, August 2019 -- Negotiating a truce, December 2019-January 2020 -- Looking ahead : Cold War II.