Countering China's Great Game : A Strategy for American Dominance / Michael Scott Sobolik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobolik, Michael Scott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yi dai yi lu (Initiative : China).

Geopolitics--China.

Geopolitics.

United States--Foreign relations--China.

United States.

China--Foreign relations--United States.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2024.

Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The United States is in the midst of a new Cold War with the Chinese Communist Party, and we are losing. America's leaders believed for decades that we could make China like us by engaging the CCP and trading with it. Since COVID-19, a new consensus is emerging--one that sees Beijing as a threat to America's security, interests, and values. But leaders in Washington are reacting to this threat and playing defense. Like America's efforts to contain the Soviet Union, the United States needs a strategic vision to overcome the CCP and prevail in this struggle. This book offers a plan for American victory over the CCP and presents a roadmap to sabotage the crux of the CCP's foreign policy: the Belt and Road Initiative"-- Provided by publisher.

"The United States is in the midst of a new cold war with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and America is losing. That claim, at the core of Michael Sobolik's new book Countering China's Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance, challenges the Washington, D.C. conventional wisdom about U.S.-China relations. Officials in Washington are reacting to the CCP and playing defense. Like America's efforts to contain the Soviet Union in the twentieth-century Cold War, the United States needs a strategic vision to overcome the CCP. Sobolik offers a plan for American victory over the CCP and presents a roadmap to sabotage the crux of the CCP's foreign policy: the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). At its core, the BRI is not an economic venture. It is a geopolitical gambit. Chinese leader Xi Jinping's "project of the century" has entered its second phase: leveraging yesterday's investments for today's political and military ends. Xi will never do away with the BRI because it is strengthening Beijing's strategic position from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands to Africa and Latin America. The BRI is the apotheosis of the CCP's grand strategy. America needs a blueprint to take it down. Sobolik provides this blueprint by identifying the BRI's core weakness: imperial overstretch. After identifying China's penchant for empire-building, he identifies the BRI's key weaknesses globally and traces them back to the CCP's vulnerabilities at home. Sobolik's work offers policymakers a plan to go on the offense and win America's new cold war"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Imperialism strikes back

From time immemorial

Middle Kingdom resurgent

America's triumphalist hangover

Sabotaging Beijing's empire

Crossing red lines.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-68247-951-X

OCLC:

1425808836