Chapter 16 American Awakening (1)

In 2015, Michael Pillsbury published “The 100-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy To Replace America as the Global Superpower”, a milestone in America’s awakening to China. The book is a milestone in America’s awakening to China. Being fluent in Chinese and with 40 years of first-hand experience dealing with the CCP, he served as assistant secretary of defense and retired as director of the Center for China Strategy at the Hudson Institute, a think tank. His “100-Year Marathon,” which had been in draft form shortly after Xi took office in 2013, was circulated within the Defense Department and resonated widely. Xi’s 2013 meeting with President Obama was insincere like “chicken-and-egg”. Obama’s good intentions for the U.S.-China cooperation came to naught. Xi Jinping shouted “building a community of human destiny”, “providing Chinese solutions for the world”, extended his fist to the United States in the South China Sea and spread the Belt and Road to change the world map. 2014 Russia sent troops to East Ukraine and Crimea and the United States imposed severe economic sanctions. Xi Jinping, however, gave Putin a major blood transfusion, signing a 25-year, $270 billion oil deal and paying $70 billion in advance in one go, clearly going against the United States. The U.S. was under the illusion of aiding the CCP, hoping that China would “join the club of democracies” in 2015 but found that it had been deceived and had misjudged China.

Michael Collins, an assistant at the CIA, also said that the CCP is a “duck in the water” that hides on the surface and moves undetectably below the surface. Xi Jinping speaks grandly of a “win-win situation between China and the United States,” while CCP think tank Jin Canrong admits that “a win-win situation between China and the United States means that China wins twice,” and another think tank, Zhang Weiwei, says that “the CCP is starting to set rules for the United States. The U.S. government accepted the revelations of the Centennial Marathon. After 2015 Obama began to change his policy of “Engagement” to “Containment” of China. Deploying a return to Asian military power in 2016 to counter Xi Jinping’s South China Sea strikes. The U.S. has helped the CCP enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) for more than a decade but the Chinese Communist Party has violated its commitment to open markets. Xi Jinping’s rise to power has intensified his efforts to pull out his sword on the United States.

On November 29, 2018, more than 30 leading U.S. experts on China, after 1.5 years of research, published a 192-page report titled “Chinese Influence & American Interests, Promoting Constructive Vigilance.” marked the awakening of a whole generation of Chinese experts who had discovered that they had misjudged the CCP. Many of them, who used to be friendly and expectant of the CCP, now feel that their dreams have collapsed, creating a sense of disgust and powerlessness, and set up a consensus that they have a grievance against the CCP. The report generally resonates with Bangrui Bai’s “100 Years of Marathon ”. The report is authored by Larry Diamond, a professor at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society’s Center for U.S.-China Relations.

In October 2018, the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivered a special speech on China’s policy stating that U.S. expectations of China over the years to respect the principles of freedom, respect private property, respect human rights, and respect religious freedom had all fallen short. China has benefited from U.S. aid, its GDP has grown nine times over the past 17 years and it has become the world’s second largest economy. Now it is turning plowshares into swords, making the United States its enemy, stealing U.S. trade secrets, illegally acquiring U.S. intellectual property, stealing U.S. technology, confronting the United States militarily on land, at sea, in the air, and even in outer space. China has struck into the South China Sea to push the United States out of the Western Pacific and militarized the South China Sea aggressively. The CCP controls almost every aspect of people’s lives, including domestic surveillance of the people, persecution of human rights and the Great Firewall is getting higher and higher. Domestically, the CCP persecuted Tibetan monks protesting self-immolation, imprisoning millions of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. Externally, the Belt and Road to “debt diplomacy” hold involved countries. Taiwan has been suppressed and some countries have been induced to break off diplomatic relations with Taiwan by corrupting them with money. Three Latin American countries have been drawn in by the Chinese Communist Party and have broken off diplomatic relations with Taiwan since 2017.