“Let China sleep,” Napoleon Bonaparte is supposed to have advised, “for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” The current president of China, Xi Jinping, has made no secret of his ambition for China to dominate the world. In the 1950s, America’s dominance of the automobile industry signified its manufacturing and economic preeminence. China has surpassed the United States in the manufacture of electric vehicles, whose mechanisms will eventually replace the internal combustion engine worldwi