This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Grant Nusheum. His book is When China Attacks a Warning to America.

It begins in the late 20th century, but here we are in the second decade and third decade of the 21st century.

Xi Jinping, a man who is poorly educated, has nightmares about the Red Guards, was alienated from his family, came to America,

now and again, showed himself to be someone who was regarding the U.S. as a friend, right before

his ascension. I believe there was a trip across American, which he got very good press.

However, that was then.

This is now.

And she is not the author,

but he's the

practitioner of psychological warfare.

He's very good at it.

So are his lieutenants. What is it that psychological warfare

has done to the United States? What is Mao marketing grant? Well, first for psychological warfare,

and this is really a key part of all military operations, is to get the other side to do what you want him to do.

And ultimately, that's what war is about is forcing an enemy to do something, to think a certain way.

And the Chinese have been very effective at this, getting the Americans for decades to think,

to think that they had to cooperate with

the PRC. We have to engage with them. Help the Chinese understand the rules-based order.

And the idea being that we're the ones who have the problem, we're just not helping the Chinese

understand it well enough.

Militarily, you've got the U.S. military, the Pentagon as well, for decades to think that

China posed no military threat. It either didn't have the hardware, the know-how, or it just

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