PRC POSSIBLY WOBBLY, ASKING FOR TALKS: 3/4: Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure Hardcover – by James Fanell (Author), Bradley Thayer (Author),
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🗓️ 4 May 2025
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For decades, the United States has underestimated the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it has left our country vulnerable to their devious plans—a profound, strategic miscalculation. As a result of this carelessness, the United States is at risk of losing its dominant position in global politics.
But how did this happen? How was it possible that the US could lose its dominant position after its Cold War victory and allow the rise of a peer enemy over a short period of time—about thirty years.
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| 0:35.3 | This is CBSI and the world. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm visiting with two authors, James Finnell and Bradley Thayer. |
| 0:42.0 | Their new book is Embracing Communist China, America's greatest strategic failure. |
| 0:47.1 | Failure is important here because admitting failure is a challenge for everyone, |
| 0:52.2 | but especially as I learned from Jim and Brad, |
| 0:56.4 | the U.S. Navy. |
| 0:58.3 | Jim, I come to you because you're a veteran of intelligence gathering at the U.S. Navy and analysis, |
| 1:05.7 | strategic analysis. |
| 1:07.8 | And in what is to be done about the Chinese Communist Party's aggression against Taiwan, |
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