From Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order. Steven Mosher. 2017. Kindle online sample. Section 1.
From introduction:
In a world bristling with dangers, ONLY ONE ENEMY POSES A TRULY MORTAL CHALLENGE TO THE UNITED STATES and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees.
That enemy is China
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-that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago
-whose economic power rivals our own
-that BELIEVES ITS SUPERIOR RACE AND CULTURE GIVE IT THE RIGHT TO UNIVERSAL DEFERENCE
-that teaches its people to hate America for standing in the way of achieving its narcissistic "dream" of world domination
-that believes in its manifest destiny to usher in the World of Great Harmony
-which publishes maps showing the exact extent of the nuclear destruction it could rain down on the United States
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Steven Mosher exposes
-the resurgent aspirations of the would-be hegemon–and the roots of China's will to domination in its five-thousand-year history of ruthless conquest and assimilation of other nations,
-THE BRUTAL REPRESSION OF ITS OWN PEOPLE
-belligerence toward any civilization that challenges its claim to superiority
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The naïve idealism of our "China hands" has LULLED AMERICA INTO A FOOL'S DREAM OF "ENGAGEMENT" WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA and its "peaceful evolution" toward democracy and freedom.
Mosher says wishful thinking has blinded us to the danger we face and left the world vulnerable to China's overweening ambitions.
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Mosher knows China as few Westerners do.
Having exposed as a visiting graduate student the monstrous practice of forced abortions, MOSHER BECAME THE TARGET OF THE CHINA COMMUNIST PARTY REGIME'S CRUSHING RETALIATION.
His encyclopedic grasp of China's history and its present-day politics, his astute insights, and his bracing realism are the perfect antidote for our dangerous confusion about the Bully of Asia.
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From book sample:
When the hardcover edition of Bully of Asia first came out, I referred to Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” of world domination as a “threat.”
That threat is now a reality.
CHINA IS CURRENTLY ENGAGED IN TOTAL WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACROSS ALL DOMAINS.
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Up until recently, many Americans—including many of our leading generals—failed to understand this.
They are accustomed to conceptualizing warfare as armed conflict using tanks, ships, planes, or even nukes.
Such wars still occur, of course, although they are generally limited to poor countries and failed states.
But THE NEW STRATEGIC REALITY IS THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY (CCP), FOLLOWING THE ANCIENT ADVICE OF SUN-TZU, HOPES TO DEFEAT US not by going kinetic but by using other, subtler means: economic warfare, cyberwarfare, information warfare, and, it is now clear, biological warfare.
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Because we failed to understand this until recently, we committed what is perhaps the greatest strategic blunder of any leading power in world history: WE ENABLED THE ECONOMIC AND MILITARY RISE OF THE POWER THAT WANTS TO DESTROY US.
The CCP’s effort to undermine our economy by intellectual property predation and unfair trade practices has been underway for decades, but until the Trump administration we did little or nothing to stop it.
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As I explain in these pages, this has led to the closure of tens of thousands of American factories, the loss of millions of well-paying factory jobs, and CHINA’S THEFT OF MANY TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF U.S. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
The economic war the CCP is waging against the United States has been wildly successful from Beijing’s point of view, launching China into the front rank of world powers.
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The information warfare front against the United States was opened by party leader Xi Jinping when he took office in late 2012.
Xi, channeling MAO, SAID PROPAGANDA WAS THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT OF THE THREE “MAGIC WEAPONS” THE CCP WOULD USE TO DEFEAT U.S. primacy
The second being “united front tactics” and the last being the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
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Like all Communist leaders, Mao understood the most important strategic domain is the minds of men.
So he set out to seize the “high ground” of ideology—boosting domestic morale while dispiriting the enemy, bolstering the legitimacy of his own institutions while undermining the enemy’s, and ATTRACTING ALLIES FROM WITHIN THE VERY HEART OF THE OPPOSITION.
And to bend the world to China’s will, Xi Jinping in 2014 ordered the CCP to redouble its efforts to “increase China’s soft power and give a good Chinese narrative.”
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A massive propaganda effort ensued:
-THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT NEWS AGENCY XINHUA NOW HAS 170 FOREIGN BUREAUS
-China Radio International (CRI) controls 30-plus radio stations in 14 countries
-the CCP has created or has plans to create more than 100 global think tanks Information warfare, which involves mastery over and exploitation of the news, is raging all around us, on social media, in the pages of our major newspapers, and on the evening news broadcasts.
China is literally spending tens of billions in influence operations around the world to enhance its own image and sully that of the United States.
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The CCP’s information warfare against America has made significant inroads.
An Oxford study shows English-language outlets controlled by China “have a substantial online audience . . . comparable to the BBC.”
CCP propaganda is even said to be gaining some traction with its current promotion of “conspiracy theories” that the coronavirus was an American “bioweapon.”
The UNITED STATES NEEDS TO MAKE A MAJOR EFFORT NOT ONLY TO COUNTER THE CCP DISINFORMATION, BUT TO AGGRESSIVELY ATTACK the weaknesses of the Communist system.
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The Chinese Communists themselves, it turns out, have conveniently identified a number of specific areas where they believe they are vulnerable to attack.
An April 2013 Central Committee directive warned party members there were seven political “perils” they must “resolutely guard against.”
THESE “CHINA PERILS” ARE 1) constitutional democracy, 2) human rights, 3) civil society, 4) the free market, 5) freedom of the press, and 6) the history and 7) criticism of the ideology of the CCP.
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On the principle the CCP’s worst fears should be our policy, WE MUST RELENTLESSLY ATTACK THESE POINTS OF VULNERABILITY AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which runs our foreign broadcast services, should actively support U.S. public diplomacy and serve as a voice of freedom to peoples who lack a free media.
The central effort in this regard will fall to the Chinese-language services of the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, with the support of the Department of State.
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All language services should receive systematic counterintelligence protection services to prevent penetration and sabotage by CCP agents.
OUR COUNTER-MESSAGING MUST BE CONTINUOUS AND ROBUST IF IT IS TO BREAK THROUGH THE GREAT INFORMATION FIREWALL OF CHINA and push back on CCP narratives.
Mere entertainment that does nothing to advance the mission of the USAGM should be replaced with programs that provide objective and comprehensive reporting and exemplify America’s commitment to truth, freedom, and human rights.
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Reaching the Chinese people with accurate information about the deficiencies of CCP rule and the superiority of free market democracy won’t be easy.
The CCP is obviously alert to the threat posed by an accurate recounting of its bloody history and self-serving ideology.
THE CCP LEADERS UNDERSTAND THE SOVIET UNION IMPLODED BECAUSE NO ONE, NOT EVEN COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS, SUBSCRIBED ANY LONGER TO THE IDEALS OF COMMUNISM or believed in the legitimacy of its institutions.
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Determined to avoid this fate and ensure no unapproved messages reach the Chinese people, THE CCP HAS RECENTLY ORDERED SATELLITE DISHES TO BE TAKEN DOWN FROM HOMES AND OFFICES.
The CCP understands the day the Chinese people have access to an honest history of the past seventy years of Communist rule and a clear understanding of the superiority of free market democracy is the day that they will demand to be free.
The United States must do all it can to hasten that day.
(end of section 1)
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(own comments:)
“China is currently engaged in total war with the United States of America across all domains.”
Perhaps We are getting too paranoid about China because it’s likey it will soon surpass the USA as the world’s biggest economy.
After all, Per Figure 1 there are only a few countries aligned with China, the rest of the world aligned with the U.S.A. or neutral, more than doubling the USA side total GDP.
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My Facebook connection to “Mr. Li,” an economist in mainland China, was recently blocked, hopefully he’s not off to jail.
We were having good discussions about economics the last several months and some about politics recently.
Guess went over some forbidden line, some implied criticism of the Xi-CCP regime, thought was being careful.
Maybe there was some China censor check on my FB posts, many rightly harshly critical of “XiChina.”
Maybe he got nervous thinking censors were watching and cut off on his own, probably will never know.
Imagine the U.S. and the entire Earth like one big XiChina, Big Brother always watching, censoring, controlling, jailing, disappearing and demanding worship.
Personally prefer to imagine the entire Earth like one big U.S.A. with democracy, prosperity, and freedom with government working for the people and not the people working for the government.
Will be extra vigilant until make contact with him.
We were having good discussions about economics the last several months and some about politics recently.
Guess went over some forbidden line, some implied criticism of the Xi-CCP regime, thought was being careful.
Maybe there was some China censor check on my FB posts, many rightly harshly critical of “XiChina.”
Maybe he got nervous thinking censors were watching and cut off on his own, probably will never know.
Imagine the U.S. and the entire Earth like one big XiChina, Big Brother always watching, censoring, controlling, jailing, disappearing and demanding worship.
Personally prefer to imagine the entire Earth like one big U.S.A. with democracy, prosperity, and freedom with government working for the people and not the people working for the government.
Will be extra vigilant until make contact with him.
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