Bill Gertz: Deceiving The Sky: Inside Communist Chinaʼs Drive for Global Supremacy.

Abstract

The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in
Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on
a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a
peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later the hope of producing a benign
People's Republic of China utterly failed. The Communist Party of China
deceived the West into believing that the its system and the Party-ruled
People's Liberation Army were peaceful and posed no threat. In fact, these
misguided policies produced the emergence of a 21st Century Evil Empire
even more dangerous than a Cold War version in the Soviet Union.
Successive American presidential administrations were fooled by ill-advised
pro-China policymakers, intelligence analysts and business leaders who
facilitated the rise not of a peaceful China but a threatening and
expansionist nuclear-armed communist dictatorship not focused on a
single overriding strategic objective: Weakening and destroying the United
States of America. Defeating the United States is the first step for China's
current rulers in achieving global supremacy under a new world order
based an ideology of Communism with Chinese characteristics. The process
included technology theft of American companies that took place on a
massive scale through cyber theft and unfair trade practices. The losses
directly supported in the largest and most significant buildup of the
Chinese military that now directly threatens American and allied interests
around the world. The military threat is only half the danger as China
aggressively pursues regional and international control using a variety of
non-military forces, including economic, cyber and space warfare and large-scale influence operations.