ECONOMY IS THE BATTLESPACE: 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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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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| 0:35.1 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Baxter with Jonathan D.T. Ward, his new book, The Decisive Decade, American Grand Strategy for Triumph over China. |
| 0:43.3 | A decade ago, Jonathan, many American corporations saw China as a great profit bonanza to make, to transform their national and a transatlantic business into a global |
| 0:59.4 | business. |
| 1:00.6 | Few of those corporations remain now. |
| 1:03.3 | However, we're dealing with a much larger concept than whether Caterpillar is going to do |
| 1:09.0 | well in China. |
| 1:10.7 | There's the first great divergence, |
| 1:12.4 | I read from your reporting. That was the Industrial Revolution a couple centuries ago. |
| 1:17.5 | Now, the second great divergence. What is that? So the second great divergence is something that I've |
| 1:23.8 | introduced in this book as an idea for what would it really look like for us to win |
| 1:28.4 | this contest from a historical perspective. I mean, if we were to go farther out into the century |
| 1:34.1 | and think, look, we actually headed off this challenge. We stopped the challenge from Beijing, |
| 1:38.5 | and we, you know, preserved the American-led border in the world as defined and, you know, managed by the |
| 1:47.1 | world's democracies as opposed to the dictatorships that contest us now. And I thought back to, |
| 1:52.8 | you know, the great divergence in history where essentially the industrialized world took off |
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