Napoleon supposedly said that when China rises, the world will quake. The tremors are already being felt. The United States is at a “critical inflection point,” according to Dmitri Alperovitch and Garrett Graff in their new book, World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century. We have reached “a moment where the United States and its Western allies are confronting seriously for the first time the implications of the economic and military rise of China.”