If, over the last centuries, the global center of power has shifted West from Europe to America, it kept on moving and now hovers somewhere over the Pacific. Instead of a hegemonic Empire dominating as superpower, we have a multipolar world. There is a new Asian Great Game, and the Indo-Pacific is the crucible in which the geopolitical order of the twenty-first century will be forged. With the Covid-19 pandemic as a fresh catalyst to changes that were already underway, this rebalancing will have deep repercussions in the worlds of business, politics and society at large. For all of the op-ed column inches out there trying to make sense of it all, there is no substitute for a couple of hours in your favorite armchair with a book that can stretch its feet (as you are) in tackling these big questions. Luckily, 2020 has a bumper crop of books engaging with China and the new world order it is engendering that explain full contexts and histories. Here are a few newly released titles — a