China: The Gathering Threat

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HarperChristian + ORM, Apr 17, 2005 - Political Science - 906 pages

In a book that is as certain to be as controversial as it is meticulously researched, a former special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency shows that the U.S. could be headed toward a nuclear face-off with communist China within four years. And it definitively reveals how China is steadily pursuing a stealthy, systematic strategy to attain geopolitical and economic dominance first in Asia and Eurasia, then possibly globally, within the next twenty. Using recently declassified documents, statements by Russian and Chinese leaders largely overlooked in the Western media, and groundbreaking analysis and investigative work, Menges explains China's plan thoroughly, exposing:

  • China's methods of economic control.
  • China's secret alliance with Russia and other anti-America nations, including North Korea.
  • China's growing military and nuclear power-over 90 ICBMs, many of them aimed at U.S. cities.
  • How China and Russia have been responsible for weaponizing terrorists bent on harming the U.S.
  • Damage caused by China's trade tactics (since 1990, we've lost 8 million jobs thanks to China trade surpluses).
 

Contents

ReformRepression and the New ChinaRussia Alliance
1
The First Mao Years 19491965
19
The Cultural Revolution 19651976
47
Soviet War Threats and the
59
Economic Modernization and
74
Communist Hardliners Crush
99
Political Liberalization19861989 7 ChinaU S Relations after Tiananmen19891992
115
U S China Relations19932000
124
The New Century with President Putin
229
U S Russia Relations Since 1992
254
Chinas International Actions
293
The New ChinaRussia Alliance
336
Stealthy Strategy toward Global Dominance
367
A Prudent and Proactive U S Strategy
431
Incentives for Democracy and
451
Realistic Engagement Not
463

A New Congressional Approach to China
151
Russia
153
The Soviet Era in Overview
167
Gorbachev and the End of the USSR19851991
179
The Yeltsin Era19922000
193
Encouraging Democracy and Human
478
Acknowledgments
515
Index
557
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