U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put it bluntly: “We want people everywhere to understand the threat from China.” That warning underscores the special challenge posed to American security and the 21st century global order by the Communist autocrats in Beijing.
The very idea there is a threat from China will surprise Americans accustomed to thinking of terrorism and Islamic extremism as the foremost national security concern confronting the United States in the post 9/11 era. They couldn’t be more wrong.
The reality is that Beijing and Communist-ruled China pose an existential threat to United States’ national security of the sort not seen since the days of the Soviet Union. Whether we want to be or not, we’re engaged in new Cold War.
In his recent book Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy (Encounter Books, September 2019), veteran investigative journalist Bill Gertz lays bare the Chinese ambition to dominate the 21st Century both militarily and economically … and how China increasingly views the United States as an adversary to be defeated.
Deceiving the Sky shines a light on threatening Chinese practices designed to undermine the U.S. economy, weaken and ultimately defeat our military, and diminish our global influence … and how our leaders in Washington too often failed to understand the preparations Beijing is making for a future confrontation with the United States.
In 2000, Gertz's book The China Threat was prescient in assessing Communist China's goals and intentions. Deceiving the Sky includes new details of the danger and proves his warning was correct.From ancient Chinese strategy, for wise military leaders to achieve victory in war they must be willing to deceive even the emperor himself -- or Heaven itself -- using deception to fool the enemy. This is exactly what Chinese Communist leaders have been doing to the United States in their quest to replace America as the world's sole superpower.
Deceiving the Sky is a great example of Gertz's special brand of investigative journalism...
"Readable, authoritative, and comprehensive, Bill Gertz's fine description and discussion is the first guide anyone should pick up who seriously seeks to understand China's immense, menacing, and yet baffling military buildup-aimed at us."
Arthur Waldron Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania"Bill Gertz is a renowned expert on the Chinese military and state security apparatus---as well as China's over-arching ambitions to become the next superpower. This valuable volume will help readers better understand the underpinnings of the increasingly ferocious 'new Cold War' between the United States and China."
Dr. Willy Lam Adjunct Professor, Center for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong"If a French journalist had successfully crafted in 1930 a devastating critique of France's weaknesses in relying on the Maginot Line, he could possibly have saved Paris and changed history. We should all pray that Bill Gertz is heeded in such fashion by his growing audience-much depends on it."
Ambassador R. James Woolsey Former Director of the CIA, 1993-95"Deceiving the Sky is a great example of Gertz's special brand of investigative journalism: thorough analysis and a blend of leaked material, off-the-record interviews, official interviews, and research. Gertz's coverage of China's threats to the US and our allies in space and cyberspace makes this book a 'must read'"
Larry Wortzel Former two-time military attache at the American Embassy in Beijing"Mr. Gertz provides detailed examples of how a special class of elites known as 'China hands' have failed to accurately assess and predict the aggressive actions of the People's Republic of China. This book is a clarion call for a change to forty years of an 'engagement at all costs' China policy."
James E. Fanell Retired Captain, U.S. Navy, Government Fellow at Geneva Centre for Security Policy; Former Director of Intelligence, US Pacific Fleet"When Bill Gertz writes on China, everyone should listen"
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic PolicyThe Chinese military buildup is designed specifically to cripple American military capabilities and to dominate the Asia-Pacific … and how the Chinese military is preparing for showdowns with the United States in space as well as the digital realm
How Chinese spies steal American corporate secrets and advanced technology to build up Beijing's military and surveillance apparatus … theft estimated to cost Americans as much as $600 million annually — a truly staggering sum
The shameful episode of the Obama Administration rejecting an application for asylum from a high-level, would-be Chinese defector over fears of angering Beijing
Why Beijing pursues policies to deceive Western leaders about their intentions … and how they depend on their “willful blindness” in order to succeed
How Chinese authorities have mastered “high-tech totalitarianism” to monitor its 1.4 billion people, crush dissent, and strengthen its chokehold on Hong Kong …. and how China plans to use its high-tech prowess to control the internet and gain advantage over Western nations
More than this, Gertz’s Deceiving the Sky shows how policies of appeasement toward China favored by Obama, Hillary Clinton, and others have utterly failed … and how the shift-change in approach taken by the Trump Administration is the best way to counter the growing China threat.
As Gertz explains, the current administration is fighting back, and is the best hope in a generation for countering China’s grand plans for achieving global supremacy under a new world order based on an ideology of Communism with Chinese characteristics.
Bill Gertz is a national security correspondent for the Washington Times. He is the author of numerous bestselling books on national security, military, and intelligence issues including Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11. He has been reporting on China for more than 30 years.
"Deceiving the Sky is a great example of Gertz's special brand of investigative journalism: thorough analysis and a blend of leaked material, off-the-record interviews, official interviews, and research. Gertz's coverage of China's threats to the US and our allies in space and cyberspace makes this book a 'must read."'
--- Larry Wortzel, former two-time military attache at the American Embassy in China
GET YOUR COPYIntroduction
Deceive the Sky to Cross the Ocean: An ancient Chinese strategy being applied today of using deception to fool the enemy into not responding to China's drive for global hegemony
How analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency failed to properly assess the threat from China for 20 years
How the 40-year policy of unrestricted engagement with China failed to produce a non-communist, benign China
How the Trump administration initiated a fundamental shift in U.S. policy, focusing on the economic threat from China that has impacted all other US policies.
How the Obama administration appeased China, and ignored Beijing's massive theft of American technology
Chapter 1: How Communists Lie: The 2007 ASAT Test
New details of how China lied and covered up its destructive 2007 anti-satellite missile test that spread tens of thousands of dangerous debris pieces in space
How the ideology of Chinese communism employs lies and deception as a fundamental operating principle
Secret U.S. cables reveal how China lied to the United States and world for over a year about its ASAT missile test that destroyed a satellite
Chapter 3: China Wars: The Failure of Pro-China Appeasement
How Hillary Clinton gave up to Chinese security authorities a high-ranking Chinese defector who had sought refuge inside the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, China
How U.S. intelligence agencies inflicted a string of strategic intelligence failures on the United States related to China
How senior U.S. intelligence officials adopted and disseminated incorrect and damaging views of China within the U.S. government for decades, severely undermining American security
How a senior CIA official in charge of China admitted that past views of China not seeking global supremacy were wrong
Chapter 4: The Coming Space War with China
How China in 2025 could launch a space war targeting American satellites as part of a strategic plan to defeat United States
Chapter 5: Assassin’s Mace in Space
How the Pentagon's Joint Staff warned in a secret 2018 report that China will soon be able to disrupt or destroy US satellites in orbit
How China has joined with Russia in seeking to limit U.S. space warfare capabilities with a proposed ban on space weaponry at the United Nations
How China's launch of three small, satellite-killing robots in 2013 revealed how Beijing incorporated American multiple satellite-launching technology illegally transferred to China in the 1990s during the administration of President Bill Clinton
How China developed several types of space weapons to destroy U.S. satellites: Ground-launched missiles, lasers, microsatellites, cyberattack systems and electronic jammers
Chapter 6: Seeking Digital Superiority: China’s Cyberattacks
How the National Security Agency intercepted communications between Chinese hackers and discovered that China had hacked Boeing's military aircraft databases
How Chinese military hackers stole C-17 technology that cost the United States $3.4 billion to develop
A document outlining how Chinese hackers for six years broke into American corporations in the case of Chinese hacker Su Bin who led a clandestine hacking team that stole defense secrets on the C-17, and F-22 and F-35 stealth jets
Details of the flight test plan for F-35 jets stolen in the Su Bin case, along with technology used in the radar-evading stealth bomb launch system for the F-22.
Chapter 7: High-Tech Totalitarianism
How China has imposed massive electronic surveillance through phones, video cameras and other electronic devices
How Beijing has adopted a high-tech "social credit" system now being used to control the population, such as preventing citizens deemed engaged in political crimes from using rail or air transportation
Details on China's use of technology for the repression of more than 1 million Uighurs in occupied East Turkistan in western China
How Google collaborated with China's communist government in developing a censored search engine
Details of an internal Chinese propaganda directive showing how Chinese internet trolls target America and denigrate democracy
Chapter 8: Chinese Intelligence Operations
New details of China's use of the Ministry of Public Security, the national political police, in targeting U.S. intelligence, including a failed operation to spy on a U.S. military base in Key West, Florida
How the Trump administration launched a crackdown on Chinese spying following years of previous administrations ignoring the danger
How Chinese intelligence penetrated the CIA and killed or imprisoned as many as 30 recruited CIA agents in China
New details of Chinese spying operations provided by recently retired CIA counterintelligence official Mark Kelton.
Details of the betrayal of CIA operations officer Jerry Lee who spied for China after leaving the agency
Chapter 9: Influence Power: Beijing and the Art of Propaganda and Disinformation Warfare
How a conservative think tank caved to Chinese government pressure in halting the appearance of a dissident Chinese billionaire
How a former Republican Party fundraiser, Elliott Broidy, sought to lobby senior American officials as part of a scheme to forcibly repatriate dissident Guo Wengui back to China
Chapter 10: Financial and Economic Warfare with Chinese Characteristics
How China is waging economic and financial warfare against the United States
China's secret plan to coopt U.S. state retirement pension funds as a means of influencing American policies toward China
How China outlined its game plane for waging "unrestricted warfare" in a book by two Chinese colonels
Details of how the Trump administration for the first time in decades sought to stem China's massive theft of American technology
Chapter 11: Corporate Communism: Huawei and 5G
How China's is using Huawei Technologies in a bid to corner the world market on next generation telecommunications infrastructure and technology
How China plans to dominate cyberspace through controlling the Internet of Things, the network of billions of inter-connected electronic devices
Chapter 12: Military Might: World Domination Through the Barrel of a Gun
A war scenario outlining how China could conduct a global Pearl Harbor -- a surprise missile attack against U.S. military forces around the world
How China's military has been preparing for war with the United States for three decades
How China's military was able to beat the United States in a race to deploy a new high-speed rail gun. The technology for the high-speed projectile weapon was stolen in the early 2000s by a Chinese spy and defense contractor in California named Chi Mak
How China will soon deploy ultra-high speed hypersonic missiles capable of hitting any target in the United States with a nuclear or conventional warhead in 15 minutes or less, while capable of maneuvering to avoid missile defenses
China's 16 vulnerabilities that could be used by the Pentagon to defeat the People's Liberation Army in a future conflict
How a U.S. war plan would rapidly defeat China in a future conflict
Chapter 13: Flashpoints at Sea and China’s String of Pearls Expansion
How China's plan to take over Taiwan is part of a larger strategy of global domination
How Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned Chinese leaders in June 2018 that the confrontation over control of the South China Sea could lead to World War III
How China is dangerously seeking to turn the South China Sea into Chinese sovereign lake and control the strategic waterway that is used for the sea transit of up to $5 trillion in goods annually
How China's communist leaders had a secret plan for dealing with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis during his 2018 visit to Beijing
How China's 2 million-troop military has grown increasingly unstable as a result of political purges and anti-corruption arrests of senior leaders
How China's Belt and Road Initiative is a Trojan horse for global expansionism and military adventurism by Beiing
How China is quietly establishing a network of commercial port and land facilities as part of a drive to expand its power globally
China's growing threat to democratic Taiwan and Japan
Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Declare China an Enemy, Liberate the Chinese People
The United States should begin a gradual economic decoupling from Communist China
America should counter Chinese financial warfare with a U.S. program of economic warfare
How peacefully ousting the Communist Party of China will be the first step in creating a free and democratic China
The United States should step up aggressive intelligence and counterintelligence operations against the Communist Party of China and its military, the People's Liberation Army
A plan to reform American diplomatic tools should be implemented to better confront and counter growing Chinese hegemony
The United States should develop a global network of democratic alliances targeting China that will seek to pressure Beijing into abandoning its totalitarian communist system and global designs
America should severely restrict activities by Chinese nationals in the United States and in allied nations by recognizing the subversion and technology theft threats they pose
American missile defenses around the world should be expanded as part of a strategy of neutralizing China's massive and growing force of ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles
The United States should launch "gray-zone" asymmetric warfare to negate China's similar warfares
America should create a democratic Chinese parliament in exile that will develop new policies for a free China
The United States should play the "Russia card" against China by seeking a free and democratic Russia aligned with the free world
Lauren Miklos, Encounter Books, 212.871.6310 or lmiklos@encounterbooks.com