4/4: When China Attacks: A Warning to America by Grant Newsham (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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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 | Colonel Grant Newsom, the United States Marine Corps retired, has done us all the favor of imagining a war with China over Taiwan. |
| 0:09.0 | When China attacks, the victims are already in the United States. |
| 0:12.0 | We started with Baltimore. There are a number of cities across America the Russ Belt |
| 0:18.0 | destroyed, wrecked by the Chinese plan. However, we're now coming to a battle plan. It'll never happen, you |
| 0:26.8 | say, especially if you've got a lot of money in the market. Well, there are reasons |
| 0:31.2 | that you think to yourself. |
| 0:33.0 | One is we have economic interests and that will restrain us. |
| 0:37.0 | Grant, does that hold up? |
| 0:39.0 | No, it doesn't, and I don't think it ever has has but that's been the belief is that well |
| 0:43.9 | they were so intertwined economically nobody would dare to go to war well they |
| 0:49.1 | were saying this in the 1930s as well but also once once again, listen to what the |
| 0:53.6 | she-jing-Ping and the Chinese communists are saying |
| 0:56.7 | is that they will absorb a lot of punishment |
| 1:01.0 | in order to sort of rejuvenate the nation. And she has made some very |
| 1:06.2 | favorable references to what China did in the Korean War, getting in yes suffering, but it was worth it. And he's told his citizens to get ready for |
| 1:15.1 | hardships get ready to eat grass is the expression they used it's been |
| 1:19.2 | sanctions proofing the economy so that China can absorb the economic penalties that would be applied if it goes after Taiwan. |
| 1:30.0 | But also the entire strategy years ago was to make China completely self-sufficient economically. |
| 1:40.0 | And the so-called made in China 2025 policy that he was promoting a while back until people |
| 1:46.3 | wise up to it and he changed the name. |
| 1:48.8 | That is intended to, as I said, get China so that it can withstand any pressure that may be applied if it does make a move militarily. |
| 2:00.0 | So this is one of the beliefs, and you hear it a lot from the Wall Street and the business class that, |
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