“You and I know,” responds Li …”The rice is almost cooked.” That homely phrase, spoken in a low voice, crashes like thunder in Wang’s ear. “Indeed,” responds Wang. It is all he needs to say. The seemingly innocuous phrase “the rice is cooked” is a code agreed between them for implementing an audacious contingency plan they have worked out over the last few years. These men recognized that China’s economic slowdown was taking place in an environment poisoned by an array of deep-seated problems, political, social, and moral, which would interact at some point to cause a crisis. They have long resolved to be ready to seize that moment to move against Xi Jinping himself. Nothing less offers an escape from the dead end in which his policies have trapped China. His China Dream is a waking nightmare. This is the moment in Roger Garside’s new book, “China Coup: The …