Book Reviews
Journal: The US Army War College Quarterly Parameters
Year: 2025

The nature of a nation's rise is to surpass the strongest nation in the world, and the strongest nation in the world can only be its barrier and not supporter."Yan Xuetong (24)T he book Upstart: How China Became a Great Power by Oriana Skylar Mastro, is an academic investigation about how China developed from a minor regional player in the mid-1990s into a global power, challenging the United States with every major instrument of power without instigating a major conflict thus far.Using a unique