Deceiving the Sky

Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy

Bill Gertz

• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781641771672
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: National Security
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later the hope of producing a benign People's Republic of China utterly failed. The Communist Party of China deceived the West into believing that the its system and the Party-ruled People's Liberation Army were peaceful and posed no threat. In fact, these misguided policies produced the emergence of a 21st Century Evil Empire even more dangerous than a Cold War version in the Soviet Union. Successive American presidential administrations were fooled by ill-advised pro-China policymakers, intelligence analysts and business leaders who facilitated the rise not of a peaceful China but a threatening and expansionist nuclear-armed communist dictatorship not focused on a single overriding strategic objective: Weakening and destroying the United States of America. Defeating the United States is the first step for China's current rulers in achieving global supremacy under a new world order based an ideology of Communism with Chinese characteristics. The process included technology theft of American companies that took place on a massive scale through cyber theft and unfair trade practices. The losses directly supported in the largest and most significant buildup of the Chinese military that now directly threatens American and allied interests around the world. The military threat is only half the danger as China aggressively pursues regional and international control using a variety of non-military forces, including economic, cyber and space warfare and large-scale influence operations. Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy details the failure to understand the nature and activities of the dangers posed by China and what the United States can do in taking needed steps to counter the threats.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Introduction: Deceive the Sky to Cross the Ocean
• Chapter 1: How Communists Lie The 2007 ASAT Test
• Chapter 2: The East Is Red Communism with Chinese Characteristics
• Chapter 3: China Wars The Failure of Pro-China Appeasement
• Chapter 4: The Coming Space War with China
• Chapter 5: Assassin’s Mace in Space
• Chapter 6: Seeking Digital Superiority China’s Cyberattacks
• Chapter 7: High-Tech Totalitarianism
• Chapter 8: Chinese Intelligence Operations
• Chapter 9: Influence Power Beijing and the Art of Propaganda and Disinformation Warfare
• Chapter 10: Financial and Economic Warfare with Chinese Characteristics
• Chapter 11: Corporate Communism Huawei and 5G
• Chapter 12: Military Might World Domination Through the Barrel of a Gun
• Chapter 13: Flashpoints at Sea and China’s String of Pearls Expansion
• Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Declare China an Enemy, Liberate the Chinese People
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index