August 24, 2020
Dear Friends and Family,
This is the fifth and last segment of the China Series. Segment 5 crystalizes the Chinese threat to American and the world and presents an overall framework on what is need for our country to meet the challenge. .
My Takeaways:
I have three major takeaways all of which furthered my understanding of the enormous breadth of the CCPs capability to create havoc in our society.
1. EMPs: The first deals with nonmilitary warfare via electromagnetic pulse (EMP) technology. According to two Forbes articles (4/6/2019 by Ariel Cohen and 6/25/2020 by James Conca) “EMPs are pulses of energy that can be emitted from a blast of a nuclear weapon or portable devices like high powered microwave weapons. These powerful forces ---when interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field – have the ability to damage electronic and electrical equipment. China has used stolen U.S. technology to develop at least three types of high-tech weapons to attack the electric grid and key technologies that could cause a surprise ‘Pearl Harbor’ attack that could produce a deadly blackout to the entire country. China has built a network of satellites, high-speed missiles, and super-electromagnetic pulse weapons that could melt down our entire grid, fry critical communications, and even takeout the ability of our aircraft carrier groups to respond.” Per the Cohen article, “The White House is taking this potential threat seriously. On March 26, 2019, President Trump issued ‘Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electronic Pulses’ in an effort to assess the risks of such an attack to critical U.S. Infrastructure.”
The excerpts also point out that a 2016 FBI report estimated that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has more than 30,000 military cyber-spies dedicated to hacking into and stealing American military and technology secrets.
2. Space-based Solar Power: From the excerpts: “In January 2019, China officially moved forward on a program to pioneer space-based solar power. This project involves putting an enormous satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The satellite would capture solar rays (undiluted by Earth’s atmosphere) convert the solar energy to radio waves, and then beam it to a base plant on Earth, where it would be converted to electricity.” In my opinion, if the economics justify it, this could give China an energy advantage over the rest of the world and would certainly solve their air pollution problems. Further, the technology if successful could solve most if not all the Climate Change alleged issues.
3. Creating an Economic and Political Coalition Advantage: The Belt & Road Initiative “calls for the development and installation of railways, ports, energy pipelines, highways, digital infrastructure, and specific economics zones across multiple continents. This will have tremendous economic and strategic impact everywhere it touches – most of them benefitting China. The CCP is accumulating power and influence by leading this worldwide project. More than 80 countries have signed on to participate in the Belt & Road Initiative. Collectively, these approximately 80 countries account for about 30% of the global GDP and more than two-thirds of the world’s population.”
Further, the excerpts contain a six-point plan that the country could adopt to meet the China threat. The first two are recognition and debate of the problem for survival. Each of us can help with these two points in this endeavor.
Happy Learning,
Harley
P.S. In the first paragraph of the introduction to this series, I said the objective of the series was to provide you with enough research so you could evaluate whether China and the United States were entering into a “New Cold War.” I sincerely hope that objective was met.
Dear Friends and Family,
This is the fifth and last segment of the China Series. Segment 5 crystalizes the Chinese threat to American and the world and presents an overall framework on what is need for our country to meet the challenge. .
My Takeaways:
I have three major takeaways all of which furthered my understanding of the enormous breadth of the CCPs capability to create havoc in our society.
1. EMPs: The first deals with nonmilitary warfare via electromagnetic pulse (EMP) technology. According to two Forbes articles (4/6/2019 by Ariel Cohen and 6/25/2020 by James Conca) “EMPs are pulses of energy that can be emitted from a blast of a nuclear weapon or portable devices like high powered microwave weapons. These powerful forces ---when interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field – have the ability to damage electronic and electrical equipment. China has used stolen U.S. technology to develop at least three types of high-tech weapons to attack the electric grid and key technologies that could cause a surprise ‘Pearl Harbor’ attack that could produce a deadly blackout to the entire country. China has built a network of satellites, high-speed missiles, and super-electromagnetic pulse weapons that could melt down our entire grid, fry critical communications, and even takeout the ability of our aircraft carrier groups to respond.” Per the Cohen article, “The White House is taking this potential threat seriously. On March 26, 2019, President Trump issued ‘Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electronic Pulses’ in an effort to assess the risks of such an attack to critical U.S. Infrastructure.”
The excerpts also point out that a 2016 FBI report estimated that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has more than 30,000 military cyber-spies dedicated to hacking into and stealing American military and technology secrets.
2. Space-based Solar Power: From the excerpts: “In January 2019, China officially moved forward on a program to pioneer space-based solar power. This project involves putting an enormous satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The satellite would capture solar rays (undiluted by Earth’s atmosphere) convert the solar energy to radio waves, and then beam it to a base plant on Earth, where it would be converted to electricity.” In my opinion, if the economics justify it, this could give China an energy advantage over the rest of the world and would certainly solve their air pollution problems. Further, the technology if successful could solve most if not all the Climate Change alleged issues.
3. Creating an Economic and Political Coalition Advantage: The Belt & Road Initiative “calls for the development and installation of railways, ports, energy pipelines, highways, digital infrastructure, and specific economics zones across multiple continents. This will have tremendous economic and strategic impact everywhere it touches – most of them benefitting China. The CCP is accumulating power and influence by leading this worldwide project. More than 80 countries have signed on to participate in the Belt & Road Initiative. Collectively, these approximately 80 countries account for about 30% of the global GDP and more than two-thirds of the world’s population.”
Further, the excerpts contain a six-point plan that the country could adopt to meet the China threat. The first two are recognition and debate of the problem for survival. Each of us can help with these two points in this endeavor.
Happy Learning,
Harley
P.S. In the first paragraph of the introduction to this series, I said the objective of the series was to provide you with enough research so you could evaluate whether China and the United States were entering into a “New Cold War.” I sincerely hope that objective was met.
CHINA SERIES – SEGMENT 5
MEETING THE CHINESE THREAT – EXCERPTS
KEY LEARNING ABOUT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY (CCP): President Xi Jinping’s dream is the world’s nightmare. The Chinese party-state if allowed to grow unchecked, could prove fatal not only to American preeminence but to a world order based on the rule of law and universally recognized human rights. Too few Americans know how the Beijing regime ruthlessly and routinely persecute its own citizens. Even fewer recognize that in numerous arenas from currency manipulation and trading practices to cyberspace and outer space China is already engaging in a kind of non-kinetic warfare with us.
Source: Bully of Asia by Steven W. Mosher
The key lessons can be summarized as five big principles:
FIVE GLOBAL CHALLENGES: The United States finds itself in a fierce competition with a modern communist-ruled China that, instead of emulating American values as we predicted, is challenging them. We need to fully understand the nature of our competitor, and the strategies the CCP will use to achieve their final objective.
1). Stealing the Sea: The country that controls the South China Sea has a serious strategic advantage in the region and a huge increase in influence over global seaborne trade. China is presently defying long-standing international norms by building militarized, artificial islands throughout the South Sea and staking claims on existing features – all in an effort to assert control over the region, weaken the U.S. position, and bully its neighbors into accepting its dominance. The South China Sea is one of the battlefields on which the competition between the U.S. and China will be played out. The CCP has won the first round in this region.
2). Belt & Road to Everywhere: The initiative calls for the development and installation of railways, ports, energy pipelines, highways, digital infrastructure, special economic zones and more projects, across multiple continents. This will have tremendous economic and strategic impact everywhere it touches – most of them benefiting China. The CCP is accumulating power and influence by leading this worldwide project. More than 80 countries have signed on to participate in the Belt and Road initiative. Collectively, these approximately 80 countries account for about 30% of the global GDP – and more than two-thirds of the world’s population.
The Digital Silk Road, or Information Silk Road, is a less analyzed (but potentially more insidious) element of the Belt and Road Initiative. This component focuses on the integration of digital sectors, such as telecommunications, the internet of Things, and e-commerce. Imagine a world in which there is an iron curtain-like digital wall bisecting the globe creating separate Western and CCP versions of the internet, the digital economy, information technology – and all the industries of the future. Add to the list telecommunications – which appears to be the heart of China’s Digital Silk Road. China is eager to supply internet and mobile phone service to as many counties as it can. Since American carriers have no apparent interest in the international market – especially developing markets – and since the U.S. mobile and internet vendors have been wiped out, many Belt and Road countries are happy to accept China’s offer. Africa has been a prime target for China’s ambition for digital supremacy. China is a totalitarian society that heavily restricts internet usage and content. It also uses technology to surveil, monitor, and control its people. Imagine if these practices were adopted worldwide.
3). Controlling Space: The competition for leadership in space is the single most important challenge we face. The nation that aggressively travels to, harnesses, and inhabits space and other planets will be the nation that writes the rule for the future of humanity. In January 2019, China officially moved forward on a program to pioneer space-based solar power. This project involves putting an enormous satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The satellite would capture solar rays (undiluted by Earth’s atmosphere), convert the solar energy into radio waves, and then beam it to a base plant on Earth, where it would be converted to electricity.
Now this sounds wild but space-based solar power would revolutionize the space economy and human-kind as we know it. Solar power on Earth is hit or miss. If the sun isn’t shining, you don’t get power. Outside Earth’s atmosphere, this is no longer an issue. A satellite can be positioned so that it catches uninterrupted sunlight. Beaming the energy back to Earth in radio waves is settled science. The nation who fully develops this technology will be able to deliver electricity anywhere on the globe. Sadly, no U.S. government space program meets the utility or practicality of China’s space-based solar power program. However, there is a U.S. company seeking to beat China to this milestone of human achievement. Solaren’s system is one-tenth the weight of the Chinese design. If the company can secure funding, it is ready to launch a prototype system in 2020. Its full 250-megawatt system could be up by as early as 2023. That would be 10 times more productive than China’s facility and implemented 17 years sooner.
4). War Fighting and Planning:
Taiwan: For the Chinese communist leadership, China will never be complete until Taiwan rejoins the country. As long as Taiwan is independent with nearly 24 million hardworking, free citizens (the majority of whom are Han Chinese), it is a reminder to the 1.4 billion subjects that freedom “with Chinese characteristics” exists.
Taiwan Strait: A second strategy has been to militarize the Taiwan Strait so that the correlation of forces will ultimately make it impossible for the U.S. to intervene. There is no plausible American investment that would successfully defend Taiwan short of a general war with China.
Major Strategies: The CCP has begun to develop a global power projection and war fighting capability with three major strategies: asymmetric capabilities, highest-end global technologies, and the military value of the Belt and Road initiative.
Asymmetric Capabilities: A number of Chinese military personnel have proposed that instead of trying to defeat the U.S. by matching our conventional forces that they instead develop a system of asymmetric capabilities, doctrine, and systems. These asymmetric measures would enable China to defeat America in a conflict despite having a conventional force disadvantage. Most asymmetric capabilities are nonmilitary. Because asymmetric systems do not fit either the culture of the organizational interests of our national system, we do not explore them deeply enough to try to develop both offensive and defensive asymmetric systems to overmatch the CCP in this area. Yet, it could be a war-winning domain. This zone of unknown and in some ways unknowable innovation in asymmetric warfare captures one of the great challenges that we will face in trying to cope with the communist totalitarian Chinese system over the next half century.
Develop Highest-End Global Technologies: The CCP began investing in space, cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) technologies. Combined with its interest in asymmetric warfare, China’s new approach is designed to give it an advantage over the traditional American conventional investment in military technology. If the Chinese military can dominate space, it can sweep the seas of the American Navy and make American air bases untenable. If it can dominate the cyber domain, it can take control of the American economy, dominate the American command and control systems, block the effectiveness of American advanced weapons, and make it virtually impossible for Americans to oppose China. If the CCP can achieve breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and quantum computing, it could have unimaginable advantages – because no one has yet broken through in these fields. Finally, an EMP attack against a still-vulnerable American economy would lead to a catastrophic collapse of our civilization.
The Military Value of the Belt and Road Initiative: The Belt and Road Initiative in many ways parallels the way in which Europe steadily spread across the world after 1450. There were trading posts, naval ports, small enclaves, and growing colonies. In some cases, the Europeans governed through alliances with local leaders. In other cases, the Europeans replaced the local leaders and simply ran the region directly with a colonial administrator. In a remarkably short time, China has begun to emulate the trajectory of the European expansion.
Shifting American National Security Planning for China: With all of these activities by communist-ruled China there has been a significant shift in how our military and national security systems have thought about the world. There has been a healthy realization that we have spent the last 18 years overly focused on the global war on terror and on specialized tactical operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a number of third-world countries. As a result, our ability to think strategically and to develop forces that can operate at the strategic and operational level has atrophied. The United States, under the Trump administration, is beginning to take the challenge of communist totalitarian China seriously. We are starting to develop professional efforts to analyze China’s strategies, find ways to counter them, and, if necessary, defeat them. Despite the seriousness and good intentions, it is not clear that the American effort to shift focus and strategy is proceeding rapidly enough.
5). Not China’s Fault: I don’t blame China for taking advantage of us – I blame our leaders and representatives for allowing this travesty to happen. President Donald Trump, February 2019.
The Chinese communist dictatorship has a rational long-term strategy to establish itself as the world’s dominant power. The CCP aims to establish its superiority economically, politically, and militarily. As a result, it hopes to supplant the position of global leadership that the United States has long held. China has a coherent, integrated grand strategy for achieving this goal. There is a grave danger that the U.S. and Western civilization will simply be overwhelmed and dominated by China’s communist totalitarian system long before that Country ceases to be a dictatorship. There is no reason to believe that China will evolve away from authoritarianism in the near future.
WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE MUST DO:
Three Requirements: I wrote this book in part because I believe that a communist totalitarian Chinese system is a global threat capable of submerging the U.S. over the next generation. Today, most Americans and indeed most government officials, do not realize how devastating failure could be to the values and the way of life that we hold dear and have fought to protect. The scale of the challenge the U.S. faces with China is so great that we have to focus on a large, system-wide response. Without planning and coordination, all of our energy and time could be absorbed into a mound of activities that yield no strategic impact. Let’s start by outlining three requirements that must be included in an American strategy:
A Six Stage Plan: We face the fifth greatest challenge to our survival as a free country following the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, and the rise of the Soviet Union. In the last threat of the Soviet Union, the U.S. used the ingenuity, intelligence, and skill of our officials, military and citizens to act strategically against the Soviet threat. We now must decide what a comparable scale of invention and innovation for our generation will be and how we can put it into action. We must start thinking and planning with the understanding of the same potential for failure and defeat that existed in the previous four challenges to America’s survival. A totalitarian, communist Chinese system could dominate a generation from now. This is not an exaggeration. It is a practical reality based on the patterns that exist today. What we do, how we respond, the level of our commitment to preserving American values and freedom will decide the outcome of this new challenge. What is fascinating about these critical moments of decision making and active implementation is that they all follow the same pattern.
CONCLUSION: A dominant China would actively promote its principles of governance – one-party dictatorship, a socialist-market economy, and sharp curbs on fundamental rights – to the far corners of the world. We owe it not just to ourselves, but also to the peoples of Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia – and even to the Chinese people themselves – to ensure this does not happen.
Source: Bully of Asia by Steven W. Mosher
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
MEETING THE CHINESE THREAT – EXCERPTS
KEY LEARNING ABOUT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY (CCP): President Xi Jinping’s dream is the world’s nightmare. The Chinese party-state if allowed to grow unchecked, could prove fatal not only to American preeminence but to a world order based on the rule of law and universally recognized human rights. Too few Americans know how the Beijing regime ruthlessly and routinely persecute its own citizens. Even fewer recognize that in numerous arenas from currency manipulation and trading practices to cyberspace and outer space China is already engaging in a kind of non-kinetic warfare with us.
Source: Bully of Asia by Steven W. Mosher
The key lessons can be summarized as five big principles:
- The CCP’s totalitarian system is big, getting bigger, getting richer, and becoming more sophisticated. It is the greatest competitor America has faced in our history.
- General Secretary Xi Jinping and the 90 million members of the CCP are dedicated to the maintenance of their Leninist system of control. The party measures policy options with that goal in mind as a top value.
- The Chinese system is investing in dramatic technological advances and in buying markets and partners. Its influence and its capabilities are expanding much faster than Americans realize.
- Any gradual, incremental American response will simply fail. The CCP’s system is so big and has so much momentum that only a dramatic deep resetting of American policy and the development of new American institutions will enable us to turn back the totalitarian challenge.
- Change on this scale must be citizen-based and must have a broad range of grassroots support.
FIVE GLOBAL CHALLENGES: The United States finds itself in a fierce competition with a modern communist-ruled China that, instead of emulating American values as we predicted, is challenging them. We need to fully understand the nature of our competitor, and the strategies the CCP will use to achieve their final objective.
1). Stealing the Sea: The country that controls the South China Sea has a serious strategic advantage in the region and a huge increase in influence over global seaborne trade. China is presently defying long-standing international norms by building militarized, artificial islands throughout the South Sea and staking claims on existing features – all in an effort to assert control over the region, weaken the U.S. position, and bully its neighbors into accepting its dominance. The South China Sea is one of the battlefields on which the competition between the U.S. and China will be played out. The CCP has won the first round in this region.
2). Belt & Road to Everywhere: The initiative calls for the development and installation of railways, ports, energy pipelines, highways, digital infrastructure, special economic zones and more projects, across multiple continents. This will have tremendous economic and strategic impact everywhere it touches – most of them benefiting China. The CCP is accumulating power and influence by leading this worldwide project. More than 80 countries have signed on to participate in the Belt and Road initiative. Collectively, these approximately 80 countries account for about 30% of the global GDP – and more than two-thirds of the world’s population.
The Digital Silk Road, or Information Silk Road, is a less analyzed (but potentially more insidious) element of the Belt and Road Initiative. This component focuses on the integration of digital sectors, such as telecommunications, the internet of Things, and e-commerce. Imagine a world in which there is an iron curtain-like digital wall bisecting the globe creating separate Western and CCP versions of the internet, the digital economy, information technology – and all the industries of the future. Add to the list telecommunications – which appears to be the heart of China’s Digital Silk Road. China is eager to supply internet and mobile phone service to as many counties as it can. Since American carriers have no apparent interest in the international market – especially developing markets – and since the U.S. mobile and internet vendors have been wiped out, many Belt and Road countries are happy to accept China’s offer. Africa has been a prime target for China’s ambition for digital supremacy. China is a totalitarian society that heavily restricts internet usage and content. It also uses technology to surveil, monitor, and control its people. Imagine if these practices were adopted worldwide.
3). Controlling Space: The competition for leadership in space is the single most important challenge we face. The nation that aggressively travels to, harnesses, and inhabits space and other planets will be the nation that writes the rule for the future of humanity. In January 2019, China officially moved forward on a program to pioneer space-based solar power. This project involves putting an enormous satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The satellite would capture solar rays (undiluted by Earth’s atmosphere), convert the solar energy into radio waves, and then beam it to a base plant on Earth, where it would be converted to electricity.
Now this sounds wild but space-based solar power would revolutionize the space economy and human-kind as we know it. Solar power on Earth is hit or miss. If the sun isn’t shining, you don’t get power. Outside Earth’s atmosphere, this is no longer an issue. A satellite can be positioned so that it catches uninterrupted sunlight. Beaming the energy back to Earth in radio waves is settled science. The nation who fully develops this technology will be able to deliver electricity anywhere on the globe. Sadly, no U.S. government space program meets the utility or practicality of China’s space-based solar power program. However, there is a U.S. company seeking to beat China to this milestone of human achievement. Solaren’s system is one-tenth the weight of the Chinese design. If the company can secure funding, it is ready to launch a prototype system in 2020. Its full 250-megawatt system could be up by as early as 2023. That would be 10 times more productive than China’s facility and implemented 17 years sooner.
4). War Fighting and Planning:
Taiwan: For the Chinese communist leadership, China will never be complete until Taiwan rejoins the country. As long as Taiwan is independent with nearly 24 million hardworking, free citizens (the majority of whom are Han Chinese), it is a reminder to the 1.4 billion subjects that freedom “with Chinese characteristics” exists.
Taiwan Strait: A second strategy has been to militarize the Taiwan Strait so that the correlation of forces will ultimately make it impossible for the U.S. to intervene. There is no plausible American investment that would successfully defend Taiwan short of a general war with China.
Major Strategies: The CCP has begun to develop a global power projection and war fighting capability with three major strategies: asymmetric capabilities, highest-end global technologies, and the military value of the Belt and Road initiative.
Asymmetric Capabilities: A number of Chinese military personnel have proposed that instead of trying to defeat the U.S. by matching our conventional forces that they instead develop a system of asymmetric capabilities, doctrine, and systems. These asymmetric measures would enable China to defeat America in a conflict despite having a conventional force disadvantage. Most asymmetric capabilities are nonmilitary. Because asymmetric systems do not fit either the culture of the organizational interests of our national system, we do not explore them deeply enough to try to develop both offensive and defensive asymmetric systems to overmatch the CCP in this area. Yet, it could be a war-winning domain. This zone of unknown and in some ways unknowable innovation in asymmetric warfare captures one of the great challenges that we will face in trying to cope with the communist totalitarian Chinese system over the next half century.
Develop Highest-End Global Technologies: The CCP began investing in space, cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) technologies. Combined with its interest in asymmetric warfare, China’s new approach is designed to give it an advantage over the traditional American conventional investment in military technology. If the Chinese military can dominate space, it can sweep the seas of the American Navy and make American air bases untenable. If it can dominate the cyber domain, it can take control of the American economy, dominate the American command and control systems, block the effectiveness of American advanced weapons, and make it virtually impossible for Americans to oppose China. If the CCP can achieve breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and quantum computing, it could have unimaginable advantages – because no one has yet broken through in these fields. Finally, an EMP attack against a still-vulnerable American economy would lead to a catastrophic collapse of our civilization.
The Military Value of the Belt and Road Initiative: The Belt and Road Initiative in many ways parallels the way in which Europe steadily spread across the world after 1450. There were trading posts, naval ports, small enclaves, and growing colonies. In some cases, the Europeans governed through alliances with local leaders. In other cases, the Europeans replaced the local leaders and simply ran the region directly with a colonial administrator. In a remarkably short time, China has begun to emulate the trajectory of the European expansion.
Shifting American National Security Planning for China: With all of these activities by communist-ruled China there has been a significant shift in how our military and national security systems have thought about the world. There has been a healthy realization that we have spent the last 18 years overly focused on the global war on terror and on specialized tactical operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a number of third-world countries. As a result, our ability to think strategically and to develop forces that can operate at the strategic and operational level has atrophied. The United States, under the Trump administration, is beginning to take the challenge of communist totalitarian China seriously. We are starting to develop professional efforts to analyze China’s strategies, find ways to counter them, and, if necessary, defeat them. Despite the seriousness and good intentions, it is not clear that the American effort to shift focus and strategy is proceeding rapidly enough.
5). Not China’s Fault: I don’t blame China for taking advantage of us – I blame our leaders and representatives for allowing this travesty to happen. President Donald Trump, February 2019.
The Chinese communist dictatorship has a rational long-term strategy to establish itself as the world’s dominant power. The CCP aims to establish its superiority economically, politically, and militarily. As a result, it hopes to supplant the position of global leadership that the United States has long held. China has a coherent, integrated grand strategy for achieving this goal. There is a grave danger that the U.S. and Western civilization will simply be overwhelmed and dominated by China’s communist totalitarian system long before that Country ceases to be a dictatorship. There is no reason to believe that China will evolve away from authoritarianism in the near future.
WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE MUST DO:
Three Requirements: I wrote this book in part because I believe that a communist totalitarian Chinese system is a global threat capable of submerging the U.S. over the next generation. Today, most Americans and indeed most government officials, do not realize how devastating failure could be to the values and the way of life that we hold dear and have fought to protect. The scale of the challenge the U.S. faces with China is so great that we have to focus on a large, system-wide response. Without planning and coordination, all of our energy and time could be absorbed into a mound of activities that yield no strategic impact. Let’s start by outlining three requirements that must be included in an American strategy:
- We must educate the public and have a national dialogue about the challenges we face with China. It should involve every American citizen. This must continue until at least 70% of the country agrees that success in meeting the challenge of the Communist Chinese dictatorship is the key to our national survival.
- We must develop and American-based national strategy for this ear of society-on-society competition that capitalizes on our strengths as a country. This strategy must include a framework for implementation fully as large as the challenge that we are trying to meet.
- We must define metrics for success in order to keep our rhetoric and planning realistic.
A Six Stage Plan: We face the fifth greatest challenge to our survival as a free country following the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, and the rise of the Soviet Union. In the last threat of the Soviet Union, the U.S. used the ingenuity, intelligence, and skill of our officials, military and citizens to act strategically against the Soviet threat. We now must decide what a comparable scale of invention and innovation for our generation will be and how we can put it into action. We must start thinking and planning with the understanding of the same potential for failure and defeat that existed in the previous four challenges to America’s survival. A totalitarian, communist Chinese system could dominate a generation from now. This is not an exaggeration. It is a practical reality based on the patterns that exist today. What we do, how we respond, the level of our commitment to preserving American values and freedom will decide the outcome of this new challenge. What is fascinating about these critical moments of decision making and active implementation is that they all follow the same pattern.
- Recognition: There is a recognition that there is a problem threatening the survival of our nation.
- Debate: Public debate follows about how big and how big and how real the danger is, which is paralleled by some bureaucratic moves toward containing the problem
- Consensus: A general consensus is formed that the problem is real and must be solved.
- Mobilization: Mobilization toward a solution begins that includes new strategies, new structures, and new systems that incorporate new language and intellectual formulas. If we can build a consensus about dealing with the Chinese communist totalitarian dictatorship, we will discover that we have more internal challenges than any mobilization effort since the Revolutionary War.
- Implementation: There is persistent implementation of the strategies, structure, and systems that include learning from failure and modifying activities and ideas until they work. This process occurs with a focus on the main effort despite the ebb and flow of politics, events, and attitudes
- Success: Success is won, leading to new challenges. It is important to remember that even if America succeeds in developing and implementing a strategy to deal with the Chinese communist totalitarian threat, it will not be the end of the game. What we are doing in this immediate challenge is necessary and unavoidable. There will be no holiday from responsibility even if everything goes well with China.
CONCLUSION: A dominant China would actively promote its principles of governance – one-party dictatorship, a socialist-market economy, and sharp curbs on fundamental rights – to the far corners of the world. We owe it not just to ourselves, but also to the peoples of Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia – and even to the Chinese people themselves – to ensure this does not happen.
Source: Bully of Asia by Steven W. Mosher
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
| 5_china_long_meeting_chinese_threat_-_segment_5.pdf |