This is a book every single U.S. CITIZEN should read. The purpose of the book is to expose the war China is waging against our country while using our citizens and representatives as the “army” to tear us down from within. Schweizer organizes the book in four parts that expose the strategic plan China is using.
Part one covers “Murder with a borrowed knife.” That is China’s comprehensive involvement by proxy in every step of the cartel operations responsible for the U.S. Fentanyl crisis. American political leaders, either because of personal political or financial considerations, sit silently by unwilling to confront China as hundreds of thousands of our citizens die.
Part II looks at the strategy of “Watch a fire from across the river.” The is the various ways in which Beijing surreptitiously sows and heightens social chaos in the U.S. by arming criminal gangs, using radical proxies in the streets, and deploying social media bots to create even more anger and division. Again, our political leaders remain willfully ignorant of what is going on.
Part III covers “Hide a dagger in a smile” strategies. This reveals the way China is quietly and systematically using investments not only in cultural products (such as Tic Tok, movies, and video games to penetrate the lives of our children and young adults. Hollywood titans participate in these actions because they profit financially, and our political elites ignore them because they profit politically.
Part IV investigates “Loot a burning house.” This section reveals the myriad of ways in which China sought to maximize American casualties from COVID and manipulated our leaders into imposing lockdowns, which became the largest suppression of civil rights during peacetime in U.S. history. Our health care leaders hid information from us to protect their Chinese colleagues and their financial interests.
This book is extensively cited, and Schweizer gets the strategy he reveals directly from the 2013 Chinese military manual, The Science of Military Strategy. This may be one of the most important political books I’ve read in quite some time.