Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept by Robert Spalding (PDF)

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China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security.The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America’s national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America’s economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure–and they’re winning. It’s almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese. In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China’s motives and secret attacks on the West. Chronicling how our leaders have failed to protect us over recent decades, he provides shocking evidence of some of China’s most brilliant ploys, including:Placing Confucius Institutes in universities across the United States that serve to monitor and control Chinese students on campus and spread communist narratives to unsuspecting American students.Offering enormous sums to American experts who create investment funds that funnel technology to China.Signing a thirty-year agreement with the US that allows China to share peaceful nuclear technology, ensuring that they have access to American nuclear know-how.Spalding’s concern isn’t merely that America could lose its position on the world stage. More urgently, the Chinese Communist Party has a fundamental loathing of the legal protections America grants its people and seeks to create a world without those rights. Despite all the damage done so far, Spalding shows how it’s still possible for the U.S. and the rest of the free world to combat–and win–China’s stealth war.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “[A] searing exposé of how the Chinese Communist Party continues to conduct its war for influence around the world.” ―Washington Examiner“As the former US Department of Defense attaché to China, General Spalding is in a unique position to offer a gripping tale of the multiple battlefronts of China’s war against America. Ten years from now, readers will remember this seminal work that accurately describes the current and future states of play between the world’s great powers.” ―J. Kyle Bass, Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management About the Author Robert Spalding retired from the U.S. Air Force as a brigadier general after more than 25 years of service. He is a former China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, as well as a senior defense official and defense attache to China. He earned his doctorate in economics and mathematics from the University of Missouri and is fluent in Mandarin. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction I know something about stealth. In 1998, I began training to pilot B‑2 Spirits, known far and wide as Stealth Bombers. The B‑2 was at that time the high- profile new weapon in the US Air Force arsenal, a dazzling, billion-dollar, high-tech machine that looked like it had flown in from a future century. Its “continuous curvature” allowed it to avoid detection by the electromagnetic waves used by radar systems to track objects. In other words, I learned to fly a plane that achieved something every military strategist has dreamed of: being invisible. Twenty years later— having served as chief China strate­gist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as se­nior US Defense official and Defense attaché to the People’s Republic of China— I left my position as senior director for strategic planning at the White House, deeply concerned about a different stealth weapon being turned against my country. For the past forty years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been playing a beautiful game. It is sophis­ticated yet simple. It is a competition to gain control and influence across the planet— and to achieve that outcome without resorting to military engagement. Flying quietly below the radar, the CCP has been ac­quiring technology without paying a cent toward develop­ing it, carefully taking control of the world’s shipping businesses, infiltrating our corporations and science labora­tories, and using American investor dollars to float the cost of its own factories and companies— and then, adding in­sult to injury, insisting that that money stay in China. War between nation-states in the twenty-first century looks much different than war in the nineteenth and twen­tieth centuries. Instead of bombs and bullets, it’s about ones and zeros and dollars and cents: economics, finance, data information, manufacturing, infrastructure, and com­munications. Control those fronts today, and you can win a war without firing a shot. It’s a simple, logical strategy. And it is one leaders in the West have been very slow to grasp. Our political, military, corporate, and fiscal leaders have failed to recognize the subtle game the CCP has been play­ing. They have been operating, understandably, under the now outdated idea that war is fought only with bombs and bullets. The CCP strategy, however, is to fight in other ways, utilizing a variety of tactics. It advocates and sponsors a constant focus on theft, coercion, economic sabotage, and monopolization of infrastructure on a global level— all to increase China’s sphere of influence. Everywhere. Like the B‑2 bombers I flew, the CCP’s stealth war isn’t truly covert. It has been hiding in plain sight. How did we miss it? I’m not interested in pointing fingers at one partic­ular party. Both Republican and Democratic elites have missed the signs— or are complicit— and as a patriot who cares about my fellow citizens, my main interest is to defend the people of this country and the ideas that have driven it since it was founded. Perhaps nothing threatens the CCP more than the Con­stitution of the United States. China’s president, Xi Jinping, has stated as much, and CCP documents that I will share make clear that fundamental American concepts—the rights of free speech and freedom of religion—are threats to the authoritarian power of the CCP, which believes that these liberties must never be allowed to take root in China and must never be the rights of Chinese citizens. The CCP’s fundamental loathing of our Bill of Rights and other legal protections should be chilling to anyone who values freedom. It is the primary reason I am writing this book. I want to alert the world to China’s stealth war and its strategy to dominate the planet by focusing on six spheres of influence: the economy, the military, global di­plomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure. China is closing in on achieving its goal of influencing the politicians and corporations of the United States. If this happens, fundamental freedoms we take for granted— the ability to criticize a politician or a policy, to publish political statements, to report on governmental abuse or inefficiency, to sing the lyrics you want, to study literally any subject under the sun, to visit any website, no matter what ideology is espoused— will come under assault. Read more

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⭐To be more precise, the book is about how the Communist Party of China (CCP) took over while America’s elite slept.Let’s state some facts about the CCP first:• Fifty to one hundred million people perished under its 70-year rule.• It claimed to be anti-dictatorship and pro-democracy while fighting for power in the 1940s, but produced the most brutal dictator and ruthless regime soon after it took over China.• Today, numerous dissidents have been jailed, and more than one million Uighurs are placed in modern concentration camps. People are jailed for reasons as absurd as not supporting watching National Day Parade.Spalding is the right person to write this book to wake up the civilized world. China watchers can be largely grouped into the following categories:1. Corporatists/globalist/financiers who have vested financial interests in Mainland China. The concepts of liberty, equality, country are novel to them. They have mansions all over the world and support whatever generating profit for them. They lobby for the CCP all the time.2. Western scholars in the pockets of CCP. Their careers rely on field trips to China which visa requires self-censorship. The CCP put them in their pockets by providing VIP treatment – free tours, adjunct professorships, gifts, lavish dinners…3. Principled China experts who know the CCP, Chinese people, Chinese culture deeply (often speak fluent mandarin, and have extensive first-hand interactions and connections with Chinese people) and firmly hold their conviction of freedom, liberty and democracy. The author and people like Perry Link, Yu Ying-shih are in this category. Spalding’s various recent China related positions in two US administrations make him stand out in dissecting the CCP with unique knowledge.You often get parroting of CCP narratives from the first two categories, but get enlightenment from the third. This book is indeed enlightening. Because of the author’s reputation, I pre-ordered the book 3 months in advance, and red it over the first weekend after its release.If you are unable to read the entire book but want to get a quick understanding of the issue addressed by this book, please spend a few minutes reading the excellent introduction that is essentially a summary. It clearly points out the mother of all issues: the CCP regards the American core values – rights of free speech and freedom of religion – as the threats to their existence, so they have to fight America, not necessarily with traditional military weapons, for their survival. They have been gaining in all fronts with the help of elites and general complacency.The book is highly readable. It does not enlist any abstract theories or obscure anecdotes to make the arguments. It uses telling stories out the author’s own experience or investigation to convince people. It starts with a startling story about how a once highly respected American think tank censored its project to align with the CCP’s interests and many other organizations’ fear of antagonizing the funding sources related to the CCP. The CCP’s influencing web covers law firms, NGOs, legislators as high as the senate leader, current and former government officials of both political parties. America’s loss in all fronts can be attributed to something described by two words: Unrestricted Warfare. If you wonder how all of this is related to ordinary people, here you go: “Simply put, 3.4 million US jobs vanished between 2001 and 2017 due to our trade relationship with China”. The book connects frequently discussed d CCP’s regular rule violation, intellectual property theft with tangible things for ordinary people such as $37 billion per year income reduction for impacted American workers. “This book is for and about the men and women of America who yearn for the better life they had before their elites welcomed their enemy into the WTO and into their lives.”.Chapter 2 is a remarkable succinct history of China and Sino-US relationship as related to this book. This is great for those who are interested in the topic of this book but have had very limited exposure to Chinese history. It shows that America’s complacency with the CCP started from the first high level meeting between the CCP and the US government to normalize the relationship – Kissinger’s trip to China in 1971. I would even trace it back to the 1940s when some US officials were deceived by the CCP disguised as a pro-democracy, anti-dictatorship political party.The economic front is where the US suffered by far the most damage incurred by the CCP. Chapter three uses solid evidence to show how the CCP uses piracy, espionage, hacking, counterfeit, taking advantage of obsolete treaties to advance on the US. It also paints a clear picture of the giant Ponzi scheme like Mainland economy that scams innocent US investors to help keep it going, and the gigantic real estate (called unreal estate by the book) bubble. “China had three times the amount of money in circulation than the United States did, while generating $4 trillion less in GDP.”The military gain of China over the US while the US was fighting prolonged counterproductive wars costing trillions of dollars eventually is alarming. As a former Brig General working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the author saw everything, fought his best to fend off the unconventional CCP assault assisted by American elites. The CCP has gutted the US manufacturing so much that some military operations could be paralyzed should the CCP decides to cut the supply.On the digital front, the CCP is taking full advantage of the US openness while closing Mainland China with its notorious Great Firewall. It employs a two-million strong cyber army (so-called “public opinion analysts”) to troll the internet. PLA Unit 6139 keeps launching sophisticated attacks on all kinds of organizations in the US (government, companies, NGOs…). “a media lab at Beijing’s Tsinghua University receives the entire feed of data from China’s popular Weibo platform—that is, the posts, images, videos, memes, and metadata of its 450 million-plus users—to analyze.” You can imagine what a surveillance police state PRC is.Chapter 5 on 5G is most fascinating. As the author of a proposal for the National Security Council on the nation’s strategy for 5G, Spalding can speak authoritatively on this topic. This chapter can be used as a reference for a quick understanding of 5G and its potential ubiquitous impact on the society. Ironically, the author was forced out of the White House due to this proposal opposed by powerful telecom industry lobbyists. This is where the grace of the author shines. Many people in his situation would hold grudges against superiors and/or colleagues, and badmouth them in talks, books. He does not. On the contrary, he tries to shine a light on the bright side. I believe it is a blessing for him to be forced out because otherwise we would not have this great book and author’s tireless eloquent talks in front of different cameras to wake up American people.As a former member of two administrations, the author reveals how the CCP has managed to change the diplomatic behavior of the US: “the instructions from the Obama administration were loud and clear: we are not going to do anything in public to antagonize China, as the relationship is too significant financially.” The book details a case of self-censorship for the CCP by American taxpayer funded Voice of America. The CCP’s influence and infiltration are holistic and multipronged. Politicians and their families, academics, government officials are all their targets.Though the author is apparently not recommending doing business in China, the book’s chapter 8 would be highly valuable for anyone who chooses to do so. It uses specific cases to advise you on how to protect your interests in a very uncertain environment where everything is under the control of the CCP.One cannot leave the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) out when talking about the influence of the CCP. The book has an incisive dissection of this CCP’s grand scheme with the help of Nadège Rolland, a veteran French defense analyst.The gem of the book is the action plan for us – the last two chapters. If you cannot find the time to read the whole book to understand the author’s systematic reasoning, but are willing to take his words at face value, read the last two chapters and take any actions you can to combat the massive international cancer CCP.It starts with revealing stories about how the US brought down the USSR of which I had never heard. Since the CCP survives and grows by getting around rules, cheating, stealing, bribery. Enforcing laws and rules forcefully is a common sense based effective approach to combat them. The book lists different areas for such actions largely for the government to take. However, ordinary people can urge government officials, their representatives, their fund managers to do the right thing. The book concludes with 4 basic concepts: 1. Lead with principles based on the 4 freedoms. 2. Strengthen America by rebuilding the national infrastructure. 3. Organize to compete by helping and protecting our own innovation. 4. Rebuild the international order.This book’s timing couldn’t better. We are at a historic juncture where people will determine whether the world will allow the CCP to cause disasters like that created by Nazi Germany last century.The book is quite thorough about the threats from the CCP. However, I wish the author could take this opportunity to explain a highly relevant truth often forgotten by people – a totalitarian system is bound to have conflicts with democracies regardless of who are in the system. This will help dispel the common illusion of a benign totalitarian regime peacefully coexisting with democracies with the help of some internal reforming forces as advocated by the infamous open letter China is not an enemy.I can understand that it is better to overestimate the strength of an enemy than to underestimate it when devising a plan to combating it. I would like to point out that totalitarian regimes often grossly exaggerate its power and achievements at all levels. Let me use the Korean War as an example. The PLA troops were mostly battle-hardened veterans fresh from the civil war ended a year earlier. Equipped by the USSR with their guns, tanks, fighters, they were not nearly as outgunned by Americans as many people believe. Most American troops were young kids who had never been to a battlefield. The result is a casualty ratio of 9:1 (China:US). The CCP troops often had whole divisions collapsing rapidly. The CCP troops are the best in parades with goose-stepping.Considering the author has spent most of his career in the US military, a model of meritocracy, I suspect it is hard for him to imagine the ubiquitous nepotism or anti-meritocracy of the CCP’s regime. Xi, a middle school dropout, being at the top of the hierarchy is the norm. There is an estimated implicit price list for military ranks.I disagree with the widely accepted notion echoed by the book: the CCP achieved “the most mind-boggling growth in the history of the world.” Many use “miracle” to describe it. The Mainland living standard has just reached that of Taiwan and S. Korea in the 1980s based on GDP per capita adjusted for inflation, so the PRC took twice as much time to achieve the same as some other counties. It is true that the CCP is producing billionaires faster than other countries, but 400 million or so Mainlanders live under $5.5 per day, the poverty line for upper-middle-income ($3,956 and $12,235 GDP per capita) to which the PRC belongs now. To me, the disparity is mind-boggling, not the growth.I noticed two minor errors:• P.26 Zhou Enlai was the premier, not the foreign minister when he met Kissinger.• P.26 “ba” is usually translated to hegemony, not tyrant.This is a superb book. I will recommend it to anyone with potential interest in this topic. I have recommended it to our local library and will send it as holiday gifts.

⭐This is a difficult book to review because it covers so much – including foreign and domestic policy, finance and trade, and culture — of China. But its message is clear: after 40 years slumber it is time the West woke up.If you have been like most Americans believing that China will become more democratic with increased trade, and that we should be patient as China, a poor third world nation, struggles mightily to join the West, think again, it is not going to happen. Ever!This book is a summary of the author’s conclusions from his working lifetime studying the economic and cultural aspects of China. The author, General Robert Spaulding, is a retired general of the U.S. Air Force who flew B-52 and B-2 bombers and is a former China strategist to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.In Stealth Wars, he notes that shortly after WWII ended, Mao Zedong won the Chinese mainland over the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek and turned the mainland into a bastion of communism. It was not until Henry Kissinger came to the conclusion that China could be a bulwark against Communist Russia, that this belief became the default position among America’ elite intellectuals and of the United States foreign policy. Kissinger’s idea was that China would help the U.S. destabilize the Soviet Union. Ever since the early 1970’s the West treated China as a democratic-nation-in-waiting. But the Chinese had a different idea.Not only does China not wish to join the parade of democratic nations, but it sees itself as the center of all nations. After all, China has a 5,000-year history. While the West enshrined the concepts of rule of law and due process, the Chinese Communist Party has not. It believes that Western values of freedom of speech, freedom on religion, democracy, free trade, and human rights, are an attack on the CCP.It turns out that Kissinger’s decision was THE fatal foreign policy decision of the 20th century.China is engaged in war with the United “States which was made clear in 1999. That year two senior colonels in China’s People’s Liberation Army published a study called Unrestricted Warfare. It describes a battlefield not only of bombs and soldiers. It is more subtle and includes “armed force or non-armed force, military and non-military, lethal and non-lethal means to compel the enemy to accept one’s interests.” The CCP coalesced under the philosophy that influence is stronger than raw military power.Consequently, China has adopted a strategy to gain influence via several key areas, among them aerospace, agriculture, finance, transportation, military, infrastructure, and pharmaceuticals. It seeks world dominance in each of these areas.Spaulding says China’s Belt & Road Initiative is a step in that direction. Its objective is to gain control of infrastructure projects such as ports, mines, railways, and highways in countries between itself and Europe. China controls 90-95 percent of so called “rare earth minerals.” Why is this important? Because the digital world as we know it – portable phones, computers, 5G, etc. — could not exist without rare earth minerals. Even more troubling: China wants to replace the dollar as the reserve currency of the world, with the yuan.Spaulding is highly critical for the finance sector in the U.S. for it invests lots of dollars in various Chinese enterprises. What is particularly troubling is that China keeps profits in its country, tightly controlling money flowing out of the country. Furthermore, Spaulding notes the CCP requires that one of its members sit on each corporate board in the country.”Unfortunately, the author does not provide any footnotes, so we have no way of confirming the truth of what he writes. Except by the preponderance of what he asserts.Spaulding says we only have three years (the book was copyrighted in 2019) to regain the upper hand. There are a handful of solutions he says, but not much time. Foremost, America should assert the “legitimacy of the four freedoms” the West stands for—free markets, democratic principles, the rule of law, and self-determination. Second, America should rebuild its national infrastructure. Third, we should require our government to support and protect against digital theft, piracy, financial abuse and protect our innovations. Finally, we should rebuild the international order around the free world’s innovation of ideas, information, and capital with the objective of permanent peace. Lofty goals indeed, but the alternative in unthinkable. Read this book!

⭐For some time, I have been concerned about what’s going on between the US and China. Our politicians are using their China connections to get rich, while putting our country at risk. This book is well written and comes from a very reliable source. The author was closely connected with China, via his stint in the military AND because he took the time to learn Chinese, lived in China, and represented our government in China. PLEASE READ THIS BOOK!!

⭐A very thought provoking book that re-enforces and explores in more detail thoughts I had/stories encountered before reading this book. Whilst I don’t doubt there is a large element of truth to a lot of what is written here about China, i can’t help but feel slightly skeptical about the extent of some claims given the lack of evidence to support throughout. The author has first hand experience and so no doubt has a personal connection to most of the topics discussed. There are some very interesting examples in here that at the very least provide good conversational topics.The book certainly makes you think about China in the real world and a lot of this is supported by media around the world so I have no doubt that some of what is written is certainly going on. I would certainly recommend to anyone wanting to understand the current state of play in global order and the complacency America has taken in recent years putting historic norms at risk…

⭐This book provides a detailed and wide-ranging description of the multi-decade effort by the CCP (the Chinese Communist Party) to establish an unassailable totalitarian empire within its own territory while undermining all rival powers and potential sources of resistance.The author, who lived and worked in China for many years and speaks Mandarin fluently, is careful to distinguish between the Chinese government (the CCP) and the Chinese people at large, most of whom are blameless for the crimes committed in their name. As the author puts it, the officials of the CCP are “exquisitely trained” in deception, and have succeeded in convincing most people in the West that both China and its government are essentially benign and pose no threat to the rest of the world. In reality the CCP has spent the last three decades waging a stealth war against both domestic dissidents and the West, particularly the USA as its only serious rival for global power.The book describes how the CCP has waged this stealth war across six key areas: the economy, the military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure, giving specific and detailed examples for each of them.In summary, this book provides an urgently needed ‘wake up call’ for the people and governments of the Western world, and indeed everyone who currently enjoys life beyond the reach of the Chinese Communist Party. As of 2019, the CCP exercises ruthless totalitarian control over its population of 1.45 billion people, and represents by far the greatest threat to global security and freedom as it attempts to gain supremacy as a world power, destroying any who might oppose it. This book explains how we reached this point and what can be done to counter the existential threat that the CCP now poses to all of us.

⭐General Spalding has first-hand experience with the Chinese. He speaks fluent Mandarin and has lived in China with his family. While he has great love and respect for the people he is very critical of the CCP.This is a short book, very well written and straight to the point. A must-read for anyone in business. I also recommend reading, ” Rise of the Red Dragon” by Dr Michael Salla, after you have read this. The two books connect very well and show you the real picture, helping connect the dots.

⭐I’m a massive CCP hawk, and this is an interesting personal view, but it’s more like an over dinner/beers discussion than a genuine study. There are no references, and when you are making accusations of this magnitude you really have to provide evidence if you want to bring people with you

⭐This is happening now to us. It is frightening that we are so unaware. We are in a war and taking no notice.

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