This Book Listing is in order of its first use in the series. To learn more about each book, click on the red title.
1. Superpower Showdown: How the Battle between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War (2020) by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei: Bob Davis is a Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers economic issues and continues to write about China, where he was posted from 2011 to 2014. Davis has served as the Journal’s bureau chief in Brussels, covering the European Union, and as the Latin America bureau chief. Lingling comes from a Chinese military family in a farm province in southeastern China. She attended journalism school at one of China’s elite universities, Shanghai’s Fudan University, which required months of military training before freshmen started classes. The heavy-handed instruction pushed her to stay up late listening to BBC and Voice of America on shortwave radio, trying to learn as much English as she could and imagining a life in a land of freedom. After marrying a scientist in China, she and her husband moved to New York and became U.S. citizens. Still, her roots and her family are in China, a connection that pulled back to Beijing in 2001 for a job in the Journal’s Beijing bureau. Xi Jinping’s government in March 2020 ordered her to leave China along with other American reporters from the Journal, New York Times, and the Washington Post, the biggest expulsion of Western journalists from China since the Mao era. She thought about quitting to remain with her parents, but they rejected the idea as soon as she raised it. “Don’t give up,” her mother told her.
2.China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine (2017) by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh:Rosemary Gibson is the 2014 winner of the highest honor from the American Medical Writers Association and has been credited with creating national movements for safer, more effective healthcare. She is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is the founding editor of a narrative series in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine. She is also the author, with Janardan Prasad Singh, of three other books on healthcare. Janardan Prasad Singh is economic advisor at the World Bank. He designs strategies to strengthen economic development, health care, and national security for countries around the world. He has served as an advisor to prime ministers of India on national security affairs. Formerly, he was a member of the Board of contributors of the Wall Street Journal.
3. Trump vs. China: Facing America’s Greatest Threat (2019) by Newt Gingrich: Newt Gingrich served as the 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, He was a Congressman from Georgia from 1979 until he retired in 1999. He unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination of the President of the United States in 2012. In 1995 Time named him “Man of the Year.” Since he retired from the House of Representatives, he has become a prolific author penning 18 or so books with a number of them being New York Times best sellers.
5. Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is a New Threat to World Order by Steven W. Mosher:Steven Mosher, president of Population Research Institute, is a leading authority on China. He is the author of numerous books including Journey to the Forbidden China, One Woman’ Fight against China’s One-Child Policy, Population Control, The Rural Chinese, China Misperceived American Illusions and Chinese Reality, and China Attacks. He was a long-time resident of China. He frequently testifies before Congress, and publishes in Breitbart, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal.
6. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as a Global Superpower (2015) by Michael Pillsbury: Michael Pillsbury is the director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute and has served in presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, he is a former analyst at the RAND Corporation and research fellow at Harvard and has served in senior position in the Defense Department and on the staff of four U.S. Senate committees. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is fluent with the Mandarin language.
7. Unrestricted Warfare (1999) by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui: Qiao Liang was born to a military family in 1955. He is a member of the Chinese Writers’ Union and presently is assistant director of the production office of the air force’s political department and holds the rank of senior colonel in the air force. He has repeatedly won national and military awards. Wang Xiangsui was born in Guangzhou to a military family in 1954. He joined the army at the end of 1970. He successfully assumed the position of political instructor, group political commissar, section deputy head, regiment political commissar, and division deputy political commissar. Presently, he works in the Guangzhou Military Region Air Force Political Unit and holds the rank of senior colonel. The two authored Unrestricted Warfare which was translated from the original People’s Liberation Army Documents in 1999.
7. The Power and the Light (2019) by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry: Dr. Pry is Executive Director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board, and served as Chief of Staff of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack. As Professional staff and subject matter expert on the House Armed Services Committee (1995 – 2000), Dr. Pry organized hearings on EMP that led to the establishment of the EMP Commission. Dr. Pry served in the CIA (1985 – 1995) as an expert on Soviet and Russian nuclear weapons and strategy, and as CIA’s senior analyst on EMP. Dr. Pry’s books include: EMP Manhattan Project (2018), POSEIDON: Russia’s New Doomsday Machine (2018), The Long Sunday: Nuclear EMP Attack Scenarios (2016), Blackout Wars (2015), Electric Armageddon (2012), War Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink (1999), The Strategic Nuclear Balance: And Why It Matters (1990). Dr. Pry often appears on TV and radio as an expert on national security issues. The BBC made his book War Scare into a two-hour TV documentary Soviet War Scare 1983. His book Electric Armageddon was the basis for another TV documentary Electronic Armageddon by the National Geographic. The book The Power and the Light (2019) (utilized in this series) also includes excerpts from Dr. William Graham and Ambassador R. James Woolsey whose bios are in the excerpt text of the segment.
8. The Threat of EMP (2021) by Bobby Akart: Akart is a bestselling nonfiction author with his “Prepping for Tomorrow” series, number one bestseller in fiction, and also a top ranked author on Amazon ranking in the top five in the Spirituality/Religion genres. The author takes great pride in attention to detail. He was a great student that completed his three-year undergraduate program and immediately enrolled for a business administration and law degree aged only twenty-three. His education prepared him for a legal career in investment banking, trusts, and banking where he was wildly successful. With his legal career flourishing he took advantage of several business opportunities including commercial real estate development and restaurant operation, which made him a great deal of money. Soon after meeting and marrying his wife he quit the corporate scene. He first got involved in writing when he decided to leave everything behind after the death of his mother coupled with the 2008 financial crisis which convinced him that nothing was permanent, and everything could change in an instant. His book that is used in this series is part of the “Prepping for Tomorrow” series. Links to: The Heritage Foundation and The Survival Sullivan
BOOK LISTING FROM CHINA 2 9. Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love by Newt Gingrich (2021). Newt Gingrich is a former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and 2012 presidential candidate. He is chairman of Gingrich 360, a multimedia production and consulting company based in Arlington, Virginia. He is also a Fox News contributor and author of 41 books, including New York Times bestsellers Understanding Trump, Trump’s America, Trump vs. China, and Trump and the American Future. He lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife, Callista L. Gingrich, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. 10. The Drift: Stopping America’s Slide to Socialism by Kevin A. Hassett (2021). Kevin Hassett, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and managing director of the Lindsey Group, served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 to 2019. Returning to the White House as a senior advisor to President Trump, he helped guide the economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to this White House service, Hasset was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior economist for the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Columbia University and the New York University of Law. He is the author of the bestsellers Dow 36,000 and Bibbleology.
11. The Chief Witness: escape from China’s modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay and Alexandra Cavelius (2021). Born in China’s north-western province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. Her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime: being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities. In prison, Sauytbay was put to work teaching Chinese language, culture, and politics, in the course of which she gained access to secret information that revealed Beijing’s long-term plans to undermine not only its minorities, but democracies around the world. Upon her escape to Europe, she was reunited with her family, but still lives under the constant threat of reprisal. This rare testimony from the biggest surveillance state in the world reveals not only the full, frightening scope of China’s tyrannical ambitions, but also the resilience and courage of the author.
12.Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win by Peter Schweizer (2022). Peter Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute and the former William J. Casey Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author the New York Times number one bestsellers Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption, as well as the Times bestsellers Clinton Cash, Throw Them All Out, Extortion, and Do As I Say (Not As I Do). He is the author of numerous other books on history and politics that have been translated into eleven languages. His investigative work has been featured on the front pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal as well as CBS News’ 60 Minutes. Peter received his BA from George Washington University and his MPhil from Oxford University.
13. Hillsdale College Imprimis: Facing Up to China by Brian T. Kennedy (2020). Brian T. Kennedy is president of the American Strategy Group, chairman of the Committee for the Present Danger: China, and a board members and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, where he served as president from 2002 to 2015. He has written widely on national security affairs and public policy, including in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Investor’s Business Daily, and RealClearPolitics. He is author of Communist China’s War Inside America.