Michael Pillsbury performs a great service in defining the threat emerging from China. The threat many not initially be militaristic, but it is certainly detrimental to the Breton Woods system and the propagation of liberalism throughout the world. China is the enemy of American individualism, free press, free markets, freedom of religion, nuclear nonproliferation, and any other ideals attributable to the West. This book posses to the reader: Can we afford to let the Chinese Communist Party become the hegemony they accuse the United States of being? This book is required reading for a post-COVID-19 world in which China works to integrate Taiwan just as it has done with Hong Kong (and the Tibet and Xinjiang provinces before them).

The book spoke a lot about a political regime hell-bent on taking over as the major world power by whatever means necessary. The moves they are making should be obvious to the casual observer how much China is willing to do anything to get what it feels it should have. The author does a great job humbly convincing you not to fall under the same misconceptions he was guilty of. Read tia book and pay attention to mews in the Pacific region and you’ll see how painfully truthful the authors words are.