3/4: When China Attacks: A Warning to America by Grant Newsham (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 31 August 2024
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https://www.amazon.sg/When-China-Attacks-Warning-America/dp/1684513650
Communist China is ambitious. It wants to replace the United States as the world’s leading superpower. And it is well on its way. It is dominant in the world economy. It is a master at intellectual property theft. It shows strategic genius at cornering essential markets. It has been staggeringly successful in buying influence among American elites. And its military buildup is astonishing.
So far, China has been waging a cold war on the United States and its Asian allies. But, emboldened by American weakness and decline, that cold war is about to turn hot. The flashpoint will be Taiwan—but the war will extend over the entire Pacific Theatre. The results could be devastating.
America is facing the possibility of humiliating regional retreat—one with almost unimaginable costs to our economy and security. That’s the warning of Grant Newsham, a longtime China analyst for the Marine Corps, the Foreign Service, and Morgan Stanley Bank in Japan. His shocking new book When China Attacks is a fire bell in the night—a warning about an imminent hot war that we are already in the process of losing. It offers a frightening, but well-founded, blow-by-blow account of what might happen.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CVS. I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. I'm visiting with Colonel Grant |
| 0:07.6 | Neutschem, United States Marine Corps retired, the author of When China Attacks |
| 0:12.4 | a Warning to America. |
| 0:14.0 | What is the goal? |
| 0:16.0 | What is the mission statement for Shijingping, now the strong man of Asia, |
| 0:21.0 | having extended his supremacy into a third term, unprecedented since the Maoist |
| 0:27.2 | revolution and the death of Mao in 76. |
| 0:31.7 | It's called Document 9. Grant tells me that it dates from right away early days of |
| 0:38.6 | Shijinping's strong man position. What does it say? What does it go, Grant? |
| 0:44.3 | Well, ultimately it describes China's main enemy, which is American ideas, |
| 0:49.3 | Western ideas. These ideas about freedom and individual liberty all the things that we take for granted |
| 0:55.9 | and consider really the foundation of our systems and he describes these as the enemy |
| 1:01.8 | to be destroyed. |
| 1:03.7 | And one of the ironic and somewhat depressing aspects of this |
| 1:09.2 | is when she gave this speech, it was in Chinese. It didn't get much attention at all. And this was around |
| 1:15.9 | 2013 when he had really solidified his control. And the Western press was publishing article saying that she was really a reformer secretly. |
| 1:27.0 | Once he got his position solidified, he was then going to ease up and we were going to see a very different China. So while the Western |
| 1:35.2 | media, which does not necessarily deserve a passing grade for its coverage of China over the years |
| 1:41.0 | by and large, but when they're saying she's a liberator at the same time, he's giving the speech to the people that matter in China saying, |
| 1:49.4 | this is our enemy, these Western ideas, and we are going to attack them and we're going to win. |
| 1:56.0 | I can remember the report early on in his time as a supremo that the military officer, senior military officers, were told to get rid of their |
| 2:07.4 | sports cars. I remember reporting that because it seems so odd that they would happen |
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