London Review of Books | Vol. 42 No. 15 | July 30

To read Tooze’s review of the following books, click here.

Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System by Paul Blustein.
McGill-Queen’s, 356 pp., £27.99, September 2019, 978 1 928096 85 6
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei.
Harper, 480 pp., £25, June, 978 0 06 295305 6
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis.
Yale, 288 pp., £20, June, 978 0 300 24417 5
The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite by Michael Lind.
Atlantic, 224 pp., £14.99, February, 978 1 78649 955 4