Stealth War

How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
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Stealth War by Robert Spalding delves into the covert strategies employed by China to undermine and surpass American global influence. The author, a former U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, examines how economic, technological, and military tactics are subtly reshaping the balance of power. Spalding provides insights into these strategic manoeuvres, offering both an analysis of current geopolitical dynamics and potential responses to these challenges.
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Stealth War

China expert Robert Spalding reveals the success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising their national security.

China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security.

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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 infrastructureβ€”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 combatβ€”and winβ€”China's stealth war.

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Stealth War by Robert Spalding receives praise for its critical examination of China's global influence and strategy. Described as a compelling exposΓ©, the book benefits from Spalding's unique insights as a former US Defense attachΓ© to China, offering an essential perspective on the geopolitical tensions between major world powers.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780593084342

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 October 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Portfolio

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

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.

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