the elements of a new Yellow Peril—a resurgent economic power, an expanding military, a hostile ideology, and a huge population—coalesced. In 1996, historian Samuel P. Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order predicted a “civilizational war” between China and the US. China, Huntington wrote, was the major rival to the American-led international system and the “biggest player in the history of man.”
