Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Economy’s most recent book is the Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (2018), which analyzes the contradictory nature of reform under President Xi Jinping. She also authored By All Means Necessary: How China’s Resource Quest is Changing the World (with Michael Levi, 2014) and the River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future (2004; Japanese edition, 2005; Chinese edition, 2011).