Handbook of US-China Relations

For reasons outside my control, this book was delayed in transit. By an extraordinary coincidence, it finally arrived in my post box on Donald Trump’s inauguration day. I was concerned that this upsetting event may have rendered the book obsolete before I even opened it. Superficially, this does seem the case. There are 17 references to Hillary Clinton in the book’s index, but next to the six index entries under Harry Truman, there are none whatsoever to Donald Trump – the index jumps straight from Truman to US Air Force. The geopolitical scene has clearly changed since this book was...