s national security strategy prioritizes confronting china. how did washington and beijing get to this point? how strong are they compared to each other? how should the u.s. approaches relationship to china? those questions are at the heart of a new book, world on the brink. dimitri, the author, joins me. you start the book with a scenario. it is after election day 2028. beijing decides to invade taiwan. is that the future we are heading toward? >> i think that period of 2028 through 2032, where you would see xi jinping at the twilight of his power, and i believe he wants to do it on his own watch, just like code and to invade ukraine -- just like putin wanted to invade ukraine. they don't only want to take these countries, but they want to be the ones to do it, because they want to go down in the pantheon of history. >> you call it cold war ii. >> when you compare it to the first cold war, the similarities are numerous. we have an ideological struggle, authoritarianism versus democracy. you have an arms race, a conventional one at a nuclear o