Countering China's Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1682479501 ISBN13: 9781682479506 Release Date: April 2024 Publisher: US Naval Institute Press Length: 240 Pages Weight: 0.71 lbs. Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1" The United States is in the midst of a new cold war with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and America is losing. That claim, at the core of Michael Sobolik's new book Countering China's Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance, challenges the Washington, D.C. conventional wisdom about U.S.-China relations. Officials in Washington are reacting to the CCP and playing defense. Like America's efforts to contain the Soviet Union in the twentieth-century Cold War, the United States needs a strategic vision to overcome the CCP. Sobolik offers a plan for American victory over the CCP and presents a roadmap to sabotage the crux of the CCP's foreign policy: the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). At its core, the BRI is not an economic venture. It is a geopolitical gambi