Niall Ferguson is an acclaimed historian and filmmaker who has chronicled war and empire, the Rothschilds and, most recently, the life of Henry A. Kissinger. He has also written extensively about China’s economic rise, and even coined the term “Chimerica,” to describe the unique links between the economies of the United States and China. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, Ferguson — who studied at Oxford — has taught at New York University, Harvard and Tsinghua Univ