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Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem determined to resist China's geopolitical and high-tech expansion. With the United States and China at loggerheads, Richard McGregor outlines how the world came to be split in two

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Extermination Machine -- Chapter One: The Jews of the General Government, September 1939-June 1941: Deportations and Ghettoization -- Chapter Two: The Road to Operation Reinhard -- Chapter Three: Operation Reinhard: Organization and Manpower -- Chapter Four: Belzec: Construction and Establishing the Method of Annihilation -- Chapter Five: Construction of Sobibor -- Chapter Six: Construction of Treblinka -- Chapter Seven: Preparing for the Deportations -- Chapter Eight: Expulsion from the Ghettos -- Chapter Nine: The Trains of Death -- Chapter Ten: Belzec: March 17 to June 1942 -- Chapter Eleven: Sobibor: May to July 1942 -- Chapter Twelve: Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 1942 -- Chapter Thirteen: Reorganization in Treblinka -- Chapter Fourteen: The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel -- Chapter Fifteen: Jewish Working Prisoners -- Chapter Sixteen: Women Prisoners -- Chapter Seventeen: Improving Extermination Techniques and Installations -- Chapter Eighteen: The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government -- Chapter Nineteen: Deportations from Bialystok General District (Bezirk Bialystok) and Reichskommissariat Ostland -- Chapter Twenty: Transports from Other European Countries -- Chapter Twenty-One: The Extermination of Gypsies -- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Economic Plunder -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Himmler's Visit to Sobibor and Treblinka -- Chapter Twenty-Four: The Erasure of the Crimes -- Part II: Life in the Shadow of Death -- Chapter Twenty-Five: Portraits of the Perpetrators -- Chapter Twenty-Six: The Prisoners' Daily Life -- Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Prisoners and the Deportees -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Faith and Religion -- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide -- Chapter Thirty: Social Life