Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy

218 Pages·2019·1.925 MB·English

by  Bill Gertz

DECEIVING THE SKY
Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global
Supremacy
Also by Bill Gertz
Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security
The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America
Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
Treachery: How America’s Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our
Enemies
Enemies: How America’s Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets—and How We Let It
Happen
The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and
Big-Government Republicans Are Undermining America’s Security and
Leading Us to War
iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age
DECEIVING THE SKY
Inside Communist China’s Drive for
Global Supremacy
Bill Gertz
New York • London
© 2019 by Bill Gertz
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Encounter Books, 900
Broadway, Suite 601, New York, New York, 10003.
First American edition published in 2019 by Encounter Books, an activity of Encounter for
Culture and Education, Inc., a nonprofit, tax exempt corporation.
Encounter Books website address: www.encounterbooks.com
Manufactured in the United States and printed on acid-free paper. The paper used in this
publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992
(R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
LCCN 2019013888
To the Chinese People
Contents
INTRODUCTION Deceive the Sky to Cross the Ocean
CHAPTER 1 How Communists Lie
The 2007 ASAT Test
CHAPTER 2 The East Is Red
Communism with Chinese Characteristics
CHAPTER 3 China Wars
The Failure of Pro-China Appeasement
CHAPTER 4 The Coming Space War with China
CHAPTER 5 Assassin’s Mace in Space
CHAPTER 6 Seeking Digital Superiority
China’s Cyberattacks
CHAPTER 7 High-Tech Totalitarianism
CHAPTER 8 Chinese Intelligence Operations
CHAPTER 9 Influence Power
Beijing and the Art of Propaganda and Disinformation Warfare
CHAPTER 10 Financial and Economic Warfare with Chinese Characteristics
CHAPTER 11 Corporate Communism
Huawei and 5G
CHAPTER 12 Military Might
World Domination Through the Barrel of a Gun
CHAPTER 13 Flashpoints at Sea and China’s String of Pearls Expansion
CONCLUSION What Is to Be Done? Declare China an Enemy, Liberate the Chinese People
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We
didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can
inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it,
and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their
lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I
may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s
children what it once was like in America when men were free.”
— Ronald Reagan, address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber
of Commerce, March 30, 1961