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.
