Greetings and welcome to the Monday, July 31st, 2023 edition of the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum, co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

This New York Times article reads like the plot of the next mission impossible.

According to the Biden administration, China has hidden malicious computer code deep inside networks

controlling our power grids, communication systems, and water supplies that feed our military bases in the U.S. and around the world.

One congressional official called the malware a ticking time bomb that could give China the

power to interrupt or slow American military actions by cutting off power, water, and

communications to our bases.

Its impact could be even broader, however, because that same infrastructure often

supplies the houses and businesses of ordinary Americans. Officials acknowledge that they do not know

the full extent of the malware's presence and networks around the world, in part because it is so

well hidden. Understandably, Americans view China as our greatest enemy in the world

today. Complicating matters greatly, however, China is also our largest trading partner, and they

see the world very differently than we do. In his recent foreign affairs article titled,

China is ready for a world of disorder, America is not,

geopolitical analyst Mark Leonard reports, quote, most Western leaders and policymakers try to preserve

the existing rules-based international order, but Chinese strategists increasingly define their

goal as survival in a world without order.

End quote. This is because the West was built on a Judeo-Christian foundation that sees the world in

the context of right and wrong, good and evil, and believes that history is progressing

towards a final conclusion. By contrast, China's atheistic worldview rejects the

concept of objective good and evil, viewing right as whatever advances their interests and

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