I admit to selfishly having enjoyed this past Sunday afternoon by listening to an entire book in one setting like I’ve not experienced for far too long. Struggling to win over a prevailing sore throat for a week, I was basically quarantined from people and confined to my office to avoid afflicting anyone else, which is a bummer during a Holiday weekend and what’s even worse, I’m not entirely sure I’ve won the battle yet.
But before leaving Sunday afternoon, my eldest son Ben, suggested I read two books that he had recently read while on vacation in Viet Nam. And by 10 pm, I had finished listening to the first one by Robert Spalding titled “Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept.” You may remember last Thanksgiving Ben introduced me to Matthew Kelly who was exactly the author I needed to read from extensively during my recuperation period and my life’s course adjustment. I am not exactly sure how Stealth War may impact me in the next year, as that as with everything, depends entirely on how we allow God to facilitate or coordinate all the variables in our lives. Micro-managing or facilitating my life is not my big concern any longer. Knowing one’s essential life’s purpose provides a focus so that my goal now is to simply obey His bidding, which I’m suspecting this author was doing when he wrote this book, a goal espoused by many of us but too seldom actually practiced, by me at least! It is a story that really needs to be told, portions I’m sure that are in stark contradiction to the fake news surrounding us today. The following paragraphs are taken from the book’s promos.
China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating America institutions and compromising our national security.
The media often suggest that the Russia poses is the greatest threat to America’s national security, but the real danger lives farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a 6-front war on America’s economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure — and they are winning. It’s almost too late to do the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese.
In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China’s motives and secrete attacks on the West. Chronicling how our leaders have failed to protect us over recent decades, he provides shocking evidence of some of China most brilliant ploys, including:
1. 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.
2. Offering enormous sums to American experts to create investment funds that funnel technology to China.
3. Signing a 30 year agreement with the US that allows China to share peaceful nuclear technology, ensuring that they have access to American nuclear know-how.
Spaulding’s concern isn’t merely that America could lose its position on the world stage. More urgently, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 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 is still possible for the US and the rest of the free world to combat and win China’s stealth war.
Robert Spalding is a national security strategist and a globally recognized expert on Chinese economic competition and influence. He retired from the US Air Force as a brigadier general. He is a former pilot of theB-2 Stealth Bomber, as well as former director for strategic planning at the National Security Council in the White House. He was the chief architect for the widely praised National Security Strategy.
Rob has lived in mainland China, both as an Olmstead scholar and as the senior defense official at the US Embassy in Beijing, and traveled extensively throughout Asia. He is fluent in Mandarin. During the 2016 UUD incident, Rob averted a diplomatic crisis by negotiating with the Chinese PLA for the return of the UV, without the aid of a translator.
Rob is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.
This book is an executive summary of the last six years of Rob’s efforts to combat the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in America and around the world.
To watch Rob’s interviews on Fox News and CNBC, as well as numerous radio and YouTube channels, concerning matters of national security, 5G, and foreign policy, visit armchaireconomist.io.