If you are stuck in quarantine and would like to read something, may I recommend BULLY OF ASIA *Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order" by Steven Mosher.
It's from 2017 so it's pretty new, but pre-coronavirus. I feel like the book predicted some things!
The author is very based. He a navy veteran who worked in China and realized that seriously messed up things go on there. For example, forced abortions and sterilizations. He talks about how his opinions are often not accepted in the academic community, because they view China as peaceful, and he doesn't.
The book explains what the CCP government is like and the mindset of the Chinese people. Clearly, China feels above the law and been prepping for something big for over 50 years. China has a very warlike attitude and will do anything to maintain control: fighting battles, rewrite culture, make up history, ethnic cleansing, genetic displacement, forced migration, redraw borders, bomb their neighbors, "disappear" journalists, lie, steal and spy, harvest organs, even throw political rivals out the window. This book really explains what we're up against!
When I hear news headlines I sometimes don't know what to think. For example, the Harvard professor arrested for helping to set up a lab in China and being on China's payroll. Or, accusations that someone from China stole American intellectual property. Or, my current favorite, that coronavirus is all fine in China and CNN running videos of people in Wuhan doing Tai Chi at the park.
Well after reading this book I GET IT! China has a huge propaganda machine and people literally "disappear" when they try to counter it, they are constantly stealing from us and then crying that we hurt THEM when the owner tries to receive damages for the steal, they have spies EVERYWHERE! (I am sure that reporter that pissed Trump off the other day is one, look her up!)
So, I really recommend this book from a based writer if you want a detailed perspective of China's history and what they're up to now. The CCP will stop at nothing to remove the USA from our place as "world hegemon" and replace us. If you want to get an inside look at it read this and you will see their hands all over the b.s. surrounding coronavirus and more parallels like manufacturing dominance, too. A very "America first" book!
(It's kinda hard to find a copy of this book right now but if you use the app "Libby" you can read books from your local library on your phone, that's what I do.)
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