XI COMPLAINS ABOUT "VICIOUS COMOETITION": 2/4: The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China Hardcover – by Jonathan D.T. Ward (Author)
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
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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.
With expert analysis of the history of US-China relations, as well as insight into how the Russia-Ukrainian war can inform our strategic thinking, The Decisive Decade presents a unique toolkit for our triumph over China. We can succeed, but it won’t be easy; it will take all of our nation’s ingenuity, confidence, and willpower to win.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
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| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
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| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. This is a new book, The Decisive Decade, American Grand Strategy for Triumph over China. A decade ago, of |
| 0:43.2 | decade, American grand strategy for triumph over China. A decade ago, Jonathan, many American corporations saw |
| 0:48.1 | China as a great profit bonanza to make to transform their national and transatlantic |
| 0:58.3 | business into a global business. Few of those corporations remain now. |
| 1:03.0 | However, we're dealing with a much larger concept |
| 1:07.0 | and whether Caterpillar is going to do well in China. |
| 1:10.0 | There's the first great divergence, I read from your reporting. That was the Industrial |
| 1:14.7 | Revolution a couple centuries ago. Now the second great divergence. What is that? |
| 1:21.2 | So the second great divergence is something that I've introduced in this book as an idea for |
| 1:25.8 | what would it really look like for us to win this contest from a historical perspective? |
| 1:31.2 | I mean if we were to go farther out into the century and think look we actually headed off this challenge we |
| 1:37.0 | stopped the challenge from Beijing and we |
| 1:39.6 | you know preserved the American lead border border and the world as as defined and you know |
| 1:46.3 | managed by the world's democracies as opposed to the dictatorships that can test |
| 1:50.5 | us now and I I thought back to you know the great divergence in history |
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