When China Attacks, Col. Grant Newsham
When China Attacks, Col. Grant Newsham
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When China Attacks
A Warning to America

Author: Col. Grant Newsham

Narrator: Axel Bosley

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/28/2023

Synopsis

A warning about America’s impending war with China. The conflict is coming, a former Marine intelligence officer shows, and we’re not ready. But it’s not too late to prepare.Communist China is ambitious. It wants to replace the United States as the world’s leading superpower. And it is well on its way. It is dominant in the world economy. It is a master at intellectual property theft. It shows strategic genius at cornering essential markets. It has been staggeringly successful in buying influence among American elites. And its military buildup is astonishing.So far, China has been waging a cold war on the United States and its Asian allies. But, emboldened by American weakness and decline, that cold war is about to turn hot. The flashpoint will be Taiwan—but the war will extend over the entire Pacific Theatre. The results could be devastating.America is facing the possibility of humiliating regional retreat—one with almost unimaginable costs to our economy and security. That’s the warning of Grant Newsham, a longtime China analyst for the Marine Corps, the Foreign Service, and Morgan Stanley Bank in Japan. His shocking new book When China Attacks is a fire bell in the night—a warning about an imminent hot war that we are already in the process of losing. It offers a frightening, but well-founded, blow-by-blow account of what might happen.Is American defeat inevitable? No, but only if America’s leaders heed the sobering message of When China Attacks.

About Col. Grant Newsham

Col. Grant Newsham, a retired U.S. Marine, served in the Indo-Pacific for decades, including in intelligence and liaison roles, and was instrumental in establishing Japan’s amphibious force. As a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, he covered a number of regions, including East and South Asia, and specialized in insurgency, counterinsurgency, and commercial matters. An attorney, he lived in Tokyo for more than twenty years, working for an investment bank and in the high-tech industry.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben on June 07, 2023

Important Book on Foreign Policy This is an exceptionally important book that delves into the realm of China's international relations and foreign policy. With meticulous research and impeccable writing, Newsham delivers a compelling narrative that sheds light on the urgent need for awareness and str......more

Goodreads review by Sean C. Killeen on April 19, 2023

Concise examination of the Xi dominated CCP and the threat it poses to Western Democracy. This book will not be well received by the Old China Hands, academics, and profiteers on Wall Street who turbo-charged this political Frankenstein Monster with direct foreign investment, sponsorship into the W......more

Goodreads review by Scotty on May 12, 2023

Very informative. It is a view from 35,000 feet. It is a look at the forest, but not every pine cone. Colonel Newshaw does a good job and hooked me at the start, but then there was a deviation from the kinetic attack on America to other kinds of warfare, which I appreciate and know of, but the book......more

Goodreads review by The Indian Book Club on November 03, 2024

Colonel Grant Newsham's When China Attacks – A Warning to America is an insightful and urgent exploration of China's rising geopolitical ambitions and the potential for conflict. Drawing from his extensive experience as a U.S. Marine officer, diplomat, and expert on East Asian security, Newsham prov......more

Goodreads review by Mike on April 21, 2025

An exhaustive and perhaps hyperbolic warning about China. I don't disagree China is America's biggest threat and adversary. I don't disagree America has been ignoring that threat or even playing into China's game for personal profits (perhaps our worst problem; greedy Americans). And the author does......more

Quotes

“Grant Newsham’s family intervention with the United States of America, a nation locked in a cycle of self-destructive behavior in its relationship with Communist China. It’s the brave effort of a man who has dedicated his life to American national security and studying the Chinese threat to wake us up before it is too late.” Sam Faddis, retired CIA operations officer and senior editor of AND Magazine

“America’s war planners think China’s war planners think like America’s war planners. Not so! Grant Newsham shows us the horrific consequences that can result from American misperceptions of Chinese intentions and capabilities.” Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China

“Will make you uncomfortable—but by design. China wars on a distracted U.S. without effective challenge. Taiwan is critically endangered, our era’s Sudetenland. Will we wake up and act in time?” Wallace C. Gregson, lieutenant general (retired), former commander U.S. Marine Forces Pacific, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs

“Newsham’s comprehensive description of China’s ‘whole of society’ approach to warfare…is edgy, well researched, convincing, and yes, it will make you uncomfortable—as it should!” Robert Thomas vice admiral (retired), U.S. Navy, former Seventh Fleet commander

“Newsham…plumbs a new well of PRC experts who have not sold their souls to the Chinese Communist Party.” Jim Fanell, captain (retired), U.S. Navy, former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations U.S. Pacific Fleet, fellow at Geneva Centre for Security Policy

“A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of U.S. power in the twenty-first century.” Alexander B. Gray, former deputy assistant to the President of the United States and chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, 2019–2021

“Gripping, lucid, and jam-packed with strategic intelligence…A Marine Corps–style boot camp for your mind.” Ian Easton, author of The Final Struggle: Inside China’s Global Strategy

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