Before joining the Biden administration in 2021 for a two-year stint as senior China advisor to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Elizabeth Economy had a long and distinguished career as a China watcher and writer. Her 2018 book, The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State, details how Xi accumulated power in his quest to compete, if not surpass, the United States. In June 2018, Economy was named one of the “10 Names That Matter on China Policy” by Politico Magazine. At Commer