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War with China: not only possible, but inevitable
Here's a guide to how it may happen -- and how we can win
Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States
by Jed Babbin; Edward Timperlake
Will the U.S. go to war with China? Yes, say Ed Timperlake and Jed Babbin. Timperlake (a veteran defense analyst) and Babbin (former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense) show in their new book Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States that the Chinese want that war, and think they can win it -- and will keep pushing the United States until it begins. It's shaping up to be a huge struggle for democracy and freedom: between America's commitment to defend Taiwan at any cost and China's increasingly bellicose attempts to expand its commercial and military reach at American expense, war between the U.S. and China is now virtually inevitable. But in Showdown, Babbin and Timperlake offer indispensable strategies and tactics for how the U.S. can and must respond to the Chinese military threat.
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Babbin (author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think) and Timperlake (co-author of the New York Times bestselling Year of the Rat and Red Dragon Rising) here bring you the very latest developments in China's quest to become a superpower. They explain the combination of alliances and global tinderboxes that could turn China's quest for superpower status into nothing less than World War III. They detail China's aggressive military buildup, revealing how it has been even more rapid than that of Nazi Germany before World War II. They also expose China's military and commercial maneuvering to outflank the United States -- much as the Soviet Union tried to do at the height of the Cold War.
But Babbin and Timperlake, both of whom are military veterans, do much more than just offer expert analysis. In a dramatic style worthy of Tom Clancy, they take you into the field with Navy SEALs and Air Force bomber pilots, invite you inside the war councils at the White House and the Pentagon, and peer within China's own Politburo in an exciting -- and all too likely -- series of war scenarios stretching from a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 2008 to its extension of total control over the Pacific region within a few years. This is by no means an exercise in fiction: these disturbing, gripping scenarios are based on the latest and most reliable intelligence -- and they make clear that China is an immense and immediate threat to America's national security.
If we don't stop China now, the coming war could engulf the entire world (particularly since the Chinese post-Communist regime is happy to make common cause with the forces of the worldwide Islamic jihad). Provocative, thrilling, exhaustively documented and sobering, Showdown is a wake-up call for our elected officials -- and for everyone who loves America.
Details of the run-up to war with China:
- How China is already working to increase the number of America's enemies and decrease the number of America's friends
- The growing social problem in China that could weaken the regime's grip on power -- or could lead straight to World War III
- The unholy alliance between Communist China and the warriors of the global Islamic jihad -- and how it could result in a war with the United States over Middle Eastern oil
- A little-noted front of the global conflict between China and the United States: Latin America (especially oil-rich Venezuela)
- Why a Chinese attack on Taiwan would spark a conflagration in the Pacific larger than anything since World War II
- How the Communist Chinese have carefully gauged how to liberalize the Chinese economy while maintaining Communist control of the government
- An anti-Communist revolution in China? Why this is extremely unlikely, even though the internal threat to the Beijing regime is substantial
- Cyber-warfare: its many forms, and why Japan and the United States are so vulnerable to cyber attacks from China
- How China spends billions a year on the most modern aircraft, missiles, submarines, and electronics that it can obtain -- and steals what it can't buy, through its enormous espionage campaign against the United States
- A second Korean War? Why it's likely -- only this time, the madmen in North Korea have nukes
- Disquieting similarities between the rhetoric of the Chinese regime today and that of the Japanese in the run-up to World War II
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