{"title":"Political Science - International Relations - Arms Control","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"plan-red-chinas-project-to-destroy-america-9781630062804","title":"Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A much needed wake-up call that China assumes that it is open season on Americans.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Victor Davis Hanson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There is a Red Storm rising in the East\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eand America is already under assault from the Chinese Communist Party.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cb\u003eLou Dobbs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"THE EAST IS RISING AND THE WEST IS DECLINING\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Xi Jinping, 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission and the president of the People's Republic of China, wants to shape the world in China's image, and in his conception of the world there is no place for the United States or even the current international order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoted China analyst Gordon G. Chang warns that Xi Jinping believes he must destroy America to accomplish his objectives. And that Xi already has a plan to do it!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXi reveres Mao and is marching China back to Maoism. He is reinstituting totalitarian social controls, demanding absolute political obedience from everyone, and cutting foreign links. Closing China off from the world is an essential element of his plan to save the communist system. His isolationism and xenophobia evoke policies from the earliest years of the People's Republic and during the two millennia of imperial rule. And Xi can't stop talking about war. More significantly, he is implementing the largest military buildup since the Second World War, he is trying to sanctions-proof the Chinese regime, he is stockpiling grain and other commodities, he is surveying America for strikes and sabotage, he is mobilizing China's civilians for battle, and he is purging China's military of officers opposed to going to war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile America's elite thinks their country is at peace, China's regime is waging its brand of war. The Chinese regime has deliberately killed Americans in great numbers this century--with disease and in other ways--and it has a plan to destroy America. The communist party-state in fact believes it must eliminate the United States to ensure its own survival. And to accomplish its goals, the regime is now fast mobilizing to go to war. China is preparing to plunge the world into conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePLAN RED: China's Project to Destroy America, \u003c\/i\u003e Chang argues: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChina's campaign against America excludes nothing and uses every point of contact with American society to destroy it.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChina has been attacking America from inside America!\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChina's penetration of American society has been so thorough that the Communist Party has been able to kill Americans with impunity\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eXi turned an in-country epidemic into a once-in-a-century pandemic. This is the first time in history that one nation has attacked all the others.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Communist Party is using all its resources to support criminal activity in America, and Americans are dying as a direct result of those activities.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eXi Jinping's China is preparing to go to war. Not just \"unrestricted war\" or political war but \"hot war\" or \"kinetic war,\" in other words, war as Americans see it in the movies. \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnd China's regime is planning to kill Americans in even greater numbers. It is marching the country to war.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmericans, in the triumphalist mood after the fall of the Soviet Union, thought they should establish contacts with China. Now, the Chinese regime uses every point of contact against America, and at the moment the regime is overwhelming American institutions. The FBI is being overwhelmed, local law enforcement is being overwhelmed, governments at all levels are being overwhelmed, and private organizations are being overwhelmed. After more than three decades of intensive \"engagement,\" it is clear Washington's generous approach has failed. America has not changed China, as everyone now realizes; China has changed America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChang believes it is time to take a page from Ronald Reagan's playbook and work to bring down the enemy: the Communist Party. The Communist Party often talks about \"win-win\" solutions, but as its actions make clear, it believes there can be only one survivor, either the People's Republic of China or the United States of America. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this situation, there is only one solution: America needs to sever virtually every point of contact with the regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs much as the United States wants to avoid war, China, for a host of internal reasons, is driving hard toward it. And should China ultimately choose war, the United States will almost certainly be in the fight. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChina has a plan to destroy America. Does America have a plan to defend itself?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon G. 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She also served on the Chairman's Council on China Competition at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Elaine has also held senior positions at international organizations, including the World Economic Forum and INTERPOL. In the private sector, Elaine held various managerial roles at the Transportation Division of Siemens Corporation and at Cross Match Technologies (now HID). She also founded a risk advisory practice, LumiRisk, LLC. Elaine has also served as a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University and as a lecturer of business ethics in Yale's Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Elaine hosts the Coercive Capital podcast on the Illicit Edge network and has been published widely, including in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, New York Post, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The Hill. 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Bradley served more than 15 years on active duty as a U.S. Army officer, including time as a company commander, Black Hawk pilot-in-command, congressional affairs officer on the Army staff in the Pentagon, and staff officer in Afghanistan. As an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Bradley taught courses on American politics, foreign policy, and grand strategy. He also taught a graduate course on \"Congress and U.S. National Security Policy\" at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Bradley has testified to Congress, appeared on BBC, CBS, and CNN, and edited and co-authored major monographs on topics such as U.S. military posture, information warfare, and the American defense industrial base. He has published hundreds of essays and articles, including ones published by The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy. 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She held both political and career positions at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including deputy and acting assistant secretary for policy and director of cargo and trade policy. She served on the Transportation Security Administration's Aviation Security Advisory Committee and chaired its Air Cargo Security Subcommittee. She also served on the Chairman's Council on China Competition at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Elaine has also held senior positions at international organizations, including the World Economic Forum and INTERPOL. In the private sector, Elaine held various managerial roles at the Transportation Division of Siemens Corporation and at Cross Match Technologies (now HID). She also founded a risk advisory practice, LumiRisk, LLC. Elaine has also served as a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University and as a lecturer of business ethics in Yale's Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Elaine hosts the Coercive Capital podcast on the Illicit Edge network and has been published widely, including in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, New York Post, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The Hill. Elaine holds a master's in public policy from Georgetown University and a B.A. in international relations from Wheaton College.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMontgomery, Rear Admiral (Ret) Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) and as a senior fellow at FDD. Mark served for more than three decades in the U.S. Navy, held senior leadership roles in Congress, and is a recognized expert on cyber and technology policy. At CCTI, Mark leads efforts to advance U.S. national and economic security through technology innovation, and counter cyber threats against the United States and its allies, and combat adversary cyber campaigns. He also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative to implement the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he served as executive director. Mark was policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under Sen. John S. McCain, where he coordinated efforts on national security strategy, force posture, capabilities, and cyber policy. Mark served 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017. His flag officer assignments included director of operations (J3) at U.S. Pacific Command; commander of Carrier Strike Group 5 aboard the USS George Washington in Japan; and deputy director for plans, policy, and strategy (J5) at U.S. European Command. From 1998 to 2000, he served at the National Security Council as director for transnational threats. Mark frequently testifies before Congress and appears on major media outlets including CNN and the BBC. His writing has been widely published in outlets such as The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and he regularly travels to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel to support policy discussions, tabletop exercises, and military planning. Mark holds graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford and completed the U.S. Navy's nuclear power training program. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bradley L. 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