If there is a single descriptor for Xi’s vision, passion, and policy it is “Make China Great Again.” In the drive for acknowledgment of its geopolitical and cultural supremacy, of course, China—and Xi—come up against the United States. America, today, has written the rules of the post-WWII international order and Americans bear the burden of taxation and massive debt incurred in attempting to enforce them. Destined for War makes a case that Xi and his party are focused not on worldwide Marxist-Leninist revolution, as was Soviet Union before and during the Cold War, but on how a 5,000-year-old civilization, the “Middle Kingdom” literally below heaven but above earth—can reclaim its historic hegemony as “the son of Heaven”—above all other, tributary nations.