I asked Dmitri Alperovitch what winning means for America in its strategic competition with China.

You subtitle the book How America Can Beat China. What does winning actually look like in your view? Economically, technologically, militarily.

We are much stronger than China in almost every respect. We have a much stronger military. Our economy is 25% greater in terms of raw GDP than China's. And with their growth rates having come down substantially, madam, it's becoming next to impossible for them to ever catch up with us. We have a great alliance network in the world. We have some of the greatest educational institutions everyone wants to come and study here. We have some of the best technology companies, right, that are leading the ira, that are leading in the semiconductor development, they're leading in bioscience and so many other areas. We have huge advantages. And what we want to do is make sure we don't lose that to China. I believe that this is a cold war that China is waging against us. And we need to make sure that we win this cold war by remaining the world's preeminent superpower, both economically and militarily. And we prevent China from becoming first a hegemon in the Pacific by taking Taiwan and changing the global distribution of power, particularly in that region, and ultimately remaining the one country that sets the rules of trade and secure order around the world. We don't want that to be China.