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19 February 2024 (Monday)
Embracing Communist China
America's Strategic Failure
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - I have had the honor of knowing Fanell for many years. His career ended abruptly in 2015 after giving a speech on the rising military threat of mainland China. The Obama administration fired him for warning the public of a rising hegemonic power.
His 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer, specializing on the Chinese navy and its operations, concluded as the Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
He and Dr. Brad Thayer have co-written a book on the threat China poses on the world stage and the American government and business apologists for Beijing who allowed this to happen.
Dr. Thayer is a founding member of the Committee on Present Danger China and a former visiting fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford.
Retired U.S. Navy Captain James Fanell provided this statement:
I am pleased to announce the unveiling of a new book written by myself and my co-author, Dr. Brad Thayer, entitled Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure. It will soon be up on Amazon's website (if not already) for pre-order and will be formally launched during CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) 21-24 February. I hope you think about the message of the book, that is so very important given the on-going election in Taiwan and our very own US Presidential election later in the year. The failure to understand and act on the threat by the PRC is important today and should be a part of our national dialogue for who we select to lead this nation in the next years. I want to thank my co-author, Brad [Thayer], for his intellectual rigor, historical knowledge, expertise on grand strategy and friendship. Many on the RSR [Red Star Rising] have been involved with providing warning to this nation in some for or fashion over the last 30 years, it is you who we salute for your efforts...and to those who ignored these warnings, it is to their shame.
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Watch this video for a taste of the book’s insights: VIDEO. FYI - Skip the Advert when you click play.
Above: 256 Page;, March 12, 2024; ISBN: 9781648210594; Skyhorse Publishing - War Room Books; USD $26.99.
For decades, the United States has underestimated the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it has left our country vulnerable to their devious plans—a profound, strategic miscalculation. As a result of this carelessness, the United States is at risk of losing its dominant position in global politics.
But how did this happen? How was it possible that the US could lose its dominant position after its Cold War victory and allow the rise of a peer enemy over a short period of time—about thirty years?
In Embracing Communist China, authors James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer get to the bottom of this heinous miscalculation.
Broken down into three central arguments, Fanell and Thayer lay out not only the reason for China’s rise in power, but how the United States could have prevented it.
Due to failures on the parts of the national security commission, strategists, military personnel, and the intelligence community, a historical case of “threat deflation” caused our country to refute all supplied information of China’s growing power. By not taking this seriously, the PRC has risen with the goal of usurping the US as a global superpower.
US business interests and financiers trumped strategy. Seeing China as a source of cheap labor for manufacturing, investment, and intellectual labor—including for research and development—the mighty dollar’s influence reigned supreme, overlooking the big picture.
With their advancements, China used its political warfare strategy to promote threat deflation under Deng Xiaoping. As such, the PRC—learning key lessons from the Soviet Union’s mistakes in the Cold War—focused on elites from all aspects of US and other Western societies, enriching them and shaping their perception of China and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while using the enticement of a growing market to influence their behavior.
As Americans, we can no longer think of China as a secondary power, but one that is looking to remove the US as the most powerful country in the world. By understanding the profound strategic failures made by the US are we are able to correct them and so defeat the PRC as the we did the Soviet Union.