2/4: The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China Hardcover – April 25, 2023 by Jonathan D.T. Ward (Author)
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2/4: The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China Hardcover – April 25, 2023 by Jonathan D.T. Ward (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Decisive-Decade-American-Strategy-Triumph/dp/1635768454/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=mAw43&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=143-0258134-6610437&pd_rd_wg=C6fBq&pd_rd_r=c66b840c-3a2e-4011-b1b1-5b88a601bca6&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk
In The Decisive Decade, Dr. Jonathan D.T. Ward―China scholar and founder of the Atlas Organization, a consultancy focused on US-China global competition―offers a comprehensive framework for how the United States can, and must, defeat China on the world stage economically, diplomatically, militarily, and ideologically. International security and American supremacy are at stake―and now is the time for the US to take action.
China’s global power and influence grows every day. Working from a deep sense of national identity, the Chinese Communist Party is leading its country toward what it deems “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation,” and executing a long-term Grand Strategy to topple over its chief adversary, the United States. As China becomes increasingly repressive domestically and aggressive overseas, it threatens to upend America’s global dominance at every turn.
Ward provides novel and practical strategies that our government, as well as our businesses and our citizens, can utilize to undermine our adversary. Exhaustive campaigns in the economic, diplomatic, military, and ideological arenas, he argues, must be taken to achieve victory.
With expert analysis of the history of US-China relations, as well as insight into how the Russia-Ukrainian war can inform our strategic thinking, The Decisive Decade presents a unique toolkit for our triumph over China. We can succeed, but it won’t be easy; it will take all of our nation’s ingenuity, confidence, and willpower to win.
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| 0:55.0 | Jonathan, many American corporations saw China as a great profit bananza to make, to transform |
| 1:05.2 | their national and transatlantic business into a global business. |
| 1:10.7 | Few of those corporations remain now. |
| 1:13.3 | However, we're dealing with a much larger concept and whether caterpillar is going to do |
| 1:19.0 | well in China. |
| 1:21.0 | There's the first great divergence I read from your reporting. |
| 1:24.0 | How is the Industrial Revolution? |
| 1:26.0 | Couple centuries ago. |
| 1:27.9 | Now the second great divergence. |
| 1:30.1 | What is that? |
| 1:31.1 | So, the second great divergence is something that I've introduced in this book as an idea |
| 1:35.7 | for what would it really look like for us to win this contest from a historical perspective. |
| 1:41.3 | I mean, if we were to go farther out into the century and think, look, we actually headed |
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