3/4: The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China Hardcover – April 25, 2023 by Jonathan D.T. Ward (Author)
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3/4: The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China Hardcover – April 25, 2023 by Jonathan D.T. Ward (Author)
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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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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachelors. The decisive decade, the new book from Jonathan |
| 0:11.3 | D.T. Ward, American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China. Jonathan, I tell the story of |
| 0:18.1 | three members of the cabinet, the Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary |
| 0:23.5 | of Commerce. Beijing does not want the Secretary of State to visit. I'm told. Beijing wants |
| 0:33.6 | the Secretary of Treasury to visit. I'm told. Beijing is unclear whether it wants the |
| 0:39.0 | Secretary of Commerce to visit. However, it might. Why? Two polls, engagement that would |
| 0:46.3 | be Treasury and maybe Commerce or competition that would be State. This is diplomacy, practice |
| 0:54.2 | now at the global level. China has an advantage in that it veers between |
| 1:00.1 | will for you and the charm offensive. Does it want to engage the United States and our |
| 1:08.9 | secretaries or does it want to defeat them, compete with them? What is Beijing's point of view? |
| 1:16.2 | Why is it hesitant about State? Well, John, Beijing understands that the U.S.-China |
| 1:23.4 | economic relationship works overwhelmingly to their advantage and overwhelmingly to our |
| 1:27.9 | disadvantage. They've been able to rise from an agrarian state in the 1980s to an industrial |
| 1:34.4 | and technological superpower today. That has basically been built through engagement |
| 1:39.3 | with the United States through access to U.S. and world markets to access to our capital |
| 1:44.9 | and our technology. They would like that to go on for as long as possible. At the same |
| 1:50.3 | time, they would like to ensure that we fail to win this longer contest that they have |
| 1:56.2 | frankly brought to us. As State catches on and as State gives voice to the security challenges |
| 2:04.3 | and as Treasury certainly makes many of the opposite noises. We saw recently in a speech |
| 2:11.0 | from the Secretary of the Treasury that apparently we are not trying to create an economic advantage |
| 2:16.5 | over China. That was the declaration of a total absence of a U.S.-grand strategy or at least |
| 2:23.3 | such deep contradictions that there will be no real effect in winning this game. So I think |
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