CHINA ON TOP: HOW CHINA IS USING AMERICA’S PLAYBOOK TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD. Directed by Jonathan Roth, the documentary film explores how China will become the world’s economic and geopolitical leader. China has carefully studied the United States’ ascendance as a global superpower and is now modelling its own rise on the template created by the Americans. It is only a matter of time until Beijing supplants Washington D.C. as the center of international authority, and when it does earth-shaking changes affecting every single American will ensue.