China’s Exhortation to Study (and Conquer)

“Don’t listen to the skeptics: China has historically been a major world power. The last 200 years have been an aberration in the 5,000-year-long history of China, not the norm. It’s just that the way in which China rises to become a great power again will look very different from previous iterations in the past. The United States must prepare itself for a complex, dangerous, and highly toxic global competition with China. It must start with protecting its advanced technology and intellectual property.”

The Art of Economic Warfare: China Gains the Upper Hand by Playing a Different Game

In this 6-part series that I wrote for American Greatness a few weeks back, I argue that America has lost the ability to conduct economic statecraft at a time when our enemies–notably China–have become expert practitioners of this incredible potent tool of statecraft.