4/4 Why is Blinken going to Beijing on June 18? 4/4: The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China Hardcover – April 25, 2023 by Jonathan D.T. Ward (Author)
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4/4 Why is Blinken going to Beijing on June 18? 4/4: 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.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachelorette, Jonathan D.T. Ward. The book is the decisive |
| 0:10.7 | decade. American grand strategy for triumph over China. I've been emphasizing the Chinese |
| 0:16.7 | point of view because it's a fascination and it's non-transparent. Jonathan's book also |
| 0:22.4 | involves the American point of view and what needs to be done. He's touched on many of |
| 0:26.8 | these items before but it's worth repeating some of them. The one I go to immediately, Arsenal |
| 0:32.5 | of Democracy. I've always loved that term, Jonathan. Secure allied supply chain and a new Arsenal |
| 0:39.0 | of Democracy. Since February 24, 2022, the Arsenal looks half empty, maybe fully empty. What needs |
| 0:46.8 | to be done, Jonathan? Well, we're going to need to rebuild our industrial base. I mean, that's |
| 0:51.8 | I think the most one of the most significant elements of this contest. In the Second World War, |
| 0:57.8 | for example, we were nearly three times the size of the combined industrial output of Germany |
| 1:03.7 | and Japan together during the 1930s. Today, we're about 15 percent of world manufacturing, |
| 1:10.2 | but China is 30 percent of world manufacturing. Not only are we not at the overwhelming majority, |
| 1:18.2 | as opposed to our adversaries, we are trailing our adversaries here. I think we're seeing that |
| 1:23.7 | alarm bell ring when it comes to actual military power. Many groups have now focused on the fact |
| 1:30.3 | that our own existing Arsenal cannot supply a conflict with Russia and China or even with one |
| 1:37.8 | of them for long. But we need to have a broader general industrial base and that means focusing on |
| 1:44.6 | rebuilding the U.S. manufacturing base, securing our supply chains and deploying capital |
| 1:49.8 | in America to ensure that our manufacturing and industrial capabilities changed dramatically. |
| 1:56.2 | And part of that is going to be the decoupling from China. That will take place on some level |
| 2:00.8 | or another, but the more that we're able to build from ourselves or from our allies, |
| 2:08.6 | as opposed to from our adversaries in Beijing, the better off will be. North American economic |
| 2:13.4 | integration. What is that? Right. So I think at the end of the day, what we really need is |
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