Countering China's Great Game

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781682479506 Author(s): Michael Scott Sobolik Format: Hardcover Year: 2024 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pages: 240

Description: 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 SobolikA?s new book Countering ChinaA?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 AmericaA?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 CCPA?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 JinpingA?s A?project of the centuryA? has entered its second phase: leveraging yesterdayA?s investments for todayA?s political and military ends. Xi will never do away with the BRI because it is strengthening BeijingA?s strategic position from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands to Africa and Latin America. The BRI is the apotheosis of the CCPA?s grand strategy. America needs a blueprint to take it down. Sobolik provides this blueprint by identifying the BRIA?s core weakness: imperial overstretch. After identifying ChinaA?s penchant for empire-building, he identifies the BRIA?s key weaknesses globally and traces them back to the CCPA?s vulnerabilities at home. SobolikA?s work offers policymakers a plan to go on the offense and win AmericaA?s new cold war.

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