During Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe in May, China and Hungary signed several agreements, including a $2.1 billion rail project that will be part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Announced in 2013 under the name One Belt, One Road, the initiative has been central to Chinese foreign policy, even though the program has led participants into debt traps and resulted in crumbling infrastructure. Commentators have increasingly speculated about the BRI’s decline. But when Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, talks with China experts on Capitol Hill, they often tell him that the BRI is still the biggest issue in U.S.-China relations. His first book, Countering China’s Great Game, succinctly describes why the initiative is a threat to America and how Washington can thwart Xi’s plans and win the new Cold War.