Deceiving the Sky, Bill Gertz
Deceiving the Sky, Bill Gertz
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Deceiving the Sky
Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy

Author: Bill Gertz

Narrator: Claton Butcher

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2020

Synopsis

The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing that 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 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 Twenty-first 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 of a threatening and expansionist nuclear-armed communist dictatorship 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 on an ideology of Communism with Chinese characteristics. 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.

About Bill Gertz

Bill Gertz is a national security columnist for the Washington Times, and senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon. His column on the Pentagon, Inside the Ring, appears weekly. He currently lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife Debra. Find him online at Gertzfile.com and @BillGertz.

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Goodreads review by Gator on April 06, 2020

Let’s do a comparison. Two books written in close proximity to one another One in 2018 and this one 2019. The first book is Becoming by Moochelle Obama (2018) on Goodreads 414,624 ratings with 40,223 reviews and a 4.56 stars out of 5. On Amazon it has 31,061 ratings/reviews and 4.8 stars out of 5. T......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on September 06, 2019

China is the greatest foreign threat to the US. Decades of pro-China policies and unrestricted engagement designed to produce a democratic China have failed. Appeasement from the administrations of Clinton and Obama have resulted in massive theft of technology, predatory economic practices, and a da......more

Goodreads review by Ben on July 21, 2021

Very good read. I found this another fascinating and interesting political science book. I'm enjoying my recent world political reads. Some really great recommendations in this book. What countries can do. More really eye-opening strategies. I found it amazing how much has changed since the book has......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on July 08, 2020

Excellent book. The one I would recommend to anyone looking for detailed historical analysis of and future strategic recommendations for US policy to defeat the CCP. The US has a moral imperative to spearhead international foreign policy rooted in the defeat of communism. This is the unfinished work......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 27, 2019

I can not remember the last time I was so enraged when reading a book - did I mention depressed? For this reason I could only stomach a chapter or so at a time. The author goes in depth detailing China's overt and covert spying, tech pillaging, lying.... The nightmare for the US began when Kissinger......more

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