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China's Vision of Victory Kindle Edition

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Someday we may say that we never saw it coming. After seventy-five years of peace in the Pacific, a new challenger to American power has emerged, on a scale not seen in generations. Working from a deep sense of national destiny, the Chinese Communist Party is guiding a country of 1.4 billion people towards what it calls “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” and, with it, the end of an American-led world. Will this generation witness the final act for America as a superpower? Can American ingenuity, confidence, and will power outcompete the long-term strategic thinking and planning of China’s Communist Party? These are the challenges that will shape the next decade and more. China’s Vision of Victory brings the reader to a new understanding of China’s planning, strategy, and ambitions. From seabed to space, from Africa to the Arctic, from subsurface warfare to the rise of China’s global corporations, this book will illuminate for the reader the new great game of our lifetimes, and how our adversary sees it all.

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"Stimulating." - The Financial Times

"It's sobering stuff. We're left to hope that there's a whole lot of people like you on the home team." - Brian Williams, The 11th Hour

"The extraordinary rise of China is unprecedented in world history and the biggest geopolitical development of the first two decades of the 21st Century; it is likely to continue to be so for decades to come. Jonathan Ward is very well qualified to document China's extraordinary growth, and he describes it superbly in China's Vision of Victory, a powerful work that is sure to provoke thought and serious reflection."

- General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and US Central Command, and former Director of the CIA

"Jonathan Ward has provided an eye-opening analysis of China's strategic ambitions. He effectively demolishes the longstanding expectation in Washington that a prosperous rising China will be content to integrate itself into the Western international order - to the contrary, he demonstrates that Beijing's objectives include nothing less than renovating that order to serve China's own strategic interests. As the United States debates the future of its China policy, China's Vision of Victory deserves the widest reading."

- Ashley J. Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

"Dr. Ward tells an absorbing and well-researched story about China's grand strategy to achieve 'supremacy among all nations' by 2049 and the role of Western capital in fueling China's rise. China's Vision of Victory is a must-read for Western policy makers, intelligence agencies, chief executives, global investors, and globally-minded thinkers. It is a real-life page-turner, if ever there was one."

- J. Kyle Bass, Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management

"Jonathan Ward is a young scholar with not only all the necessary linguistic and travel credentials, but with something even more important, a vision of history rooted in geography that allows him to espy the future."

- Robert D. Kaplan, author of Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

"I've long admired Jonathan's determination to get to the truth, on the ground. It is rare to find someone able to combine politics, philosophy, linguistic expertise and hard travel - and bring it to bear on some of the toughest issues of our generation - Jonathan is one of those remarkable people."

- Rory Stewart, author of The Places in Between and The Prince of Marshes

"This book is a very timely Master Class on China. Everyone with a keen interest in China's political, military and economic policy, past and present, should study this book carefully. Jonathan Ward's gimlet-eyed analysis and prescriptive recommendations should be taken to heart by all."

- Jack Devine, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (Ret.), author of Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story

"China's Vision of Victory is insightful, compelling, and long overdue. Whether your interest is business, economics, diplomacy, or politics, Jonathan Ward's assessments and analysis are on target. More importantly, his book will help you understand the complexity and interconnection of all facets of America's relations with China. Jonathan has given us a new take on the many challenges we face in addressing Chinese power and its relationship with the world."

- Admiral Scott H. Swift, US Navy (Ret.), Commander of US Pacific Fleet, 2015-2018

About the Author

DR. JONATHAN D. T. WARD has been studying the rise of China for over a decade. From travels with truck caravans in Tibet and across the South China Sea by cargo ship in his early twenties, to accessing Communist Party archives that have now been closed to the world while a PhD candidate at Oxford, to consulting for the US Department of Defense and Fortune 500 organizations, he has brought experience of a traveler, the discipline of a scholar, and the insight of a strategy consultant to one of the toughest, biggest pictures of our time: what does China want, how will it try to get it, and what should America do? Dr. Ward is Founder of Atlas Organization, a consultancy focused on the rise of India and China, and on US-China global competition. He speaks Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07RV4VL8L
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Atlas Publishing and Media Company
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 11, 2019
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 24.8 MB
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DR. JONATHAN D. T. WARD has been studying the rise of China for more than a decade. From travels with truck caravans in Tibet and across the South China Sea by cargo ship in his early twenties, to accessing Communist Party archives that have now been closed to the world while a PhD candidate at Oxford, to consulting for the U.S. Department of Defense and Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Ward has brought the experience of a traveler, the discipline of a scholar, and the insight of a strategy consultant to one of the biggest challenges of our time: what does China want, how will it try to get it, and what should America do?

Dr. Ward is the Founder of Atlas Organization, a Washington DC and New York based consultancy focused on the rise of India and China, and on US-China global competition. He is a frequently invited speaker for government, industry, think tank, expert, and public audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Ward has briefed a wide range of audiences from the US Defense Intelligence Agency to the US Navy Strategy Division, to the Wall Street Journal, leading American corporations, and the UK Ministry of Defence.

Dr. Ward is represented by London Speaker Bureau as a keynote on Global Trends. He is a member of the 2018 Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington DC, a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme, and a former visiting scholar at the University of Oxford China Centre. He speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, and spent ten years overseas in China, India, Russia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East before returning to the United States to found Atlas Organization. A US citizen, Dr. Ward earned his PhD in China-India relations and his M.St. in Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford.

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  • R. Thomas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, sobering description of China's intentions
    Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021
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    This book should be required reading for all Americans who care about maintaining freedom anywhere in the world, especially in our homeland. This is not a sensationalist screed, but a thoroughly documented and carefully presented work that clarifies the confusion and fills in the lack of knowledge regarding China's intentions and activities. Dr. Ward draws on a wide range of sources, very often the public documents and statements of CCP officials. He makes clear that the issue isn't simply America moving aside to make room at the table for another Great Power, but that China itself would not seek such an outcome - they see a world order with them at the top and every other nation subservient to them. I would recommend this book, alongside Steven Mosher's /Hegemon/ and David Goldman's /You Will Be Assimilated/, as must-read works for anyone seeking to understand the events unfolding around us.

    Ironically, while I was reading this book, word broke that the Chinese had taken control of Uganda's Entebbe airport under terms of an agreement they'd made as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Before the ink is dry on his book, Dr. Ward's warnings are already coming to pass. Wake up, Free World! Your very freedom is at stake!
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  • Rick Blaine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent analysis of China's global goals
    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2020
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    I am a foreign affairs junky but my background is woefully lacking in Asian studies. If you want to know what all the hullabaloo is about with China these days this is the book that will explain it to you. It is clearly written. It doesn't require advanced Asian study knowledge. It educates the reader on China's domestic and foreign policy goals and leaves one at the end with an excellent understanding of what China's global aims are. It is a superb study of the challenges that the West faces with regard to China's goal of global domination.
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  • Larry G Maninger
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book that all should read.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019
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    Several years ago, I had the opportunity to listen to a talk given by a retired Navy Admiral who, prior to retirement, had been Commander-in- Chief Pacific, (CINCPAC). He was asked what he thought was the greatest threat to the future of U.S. Security. He said it would be China. This book goes into detail on just why that is likely to be the case. The comments and conclusions are frightening. Every American should be aware of this threat, thank President Trump for what he is trying to do about it, and demand all of our other elected officials, regardless of party, support the President in every reasonable effort to counter this threat.
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  • Seeker
    4.0 out of 5 stars a worthy update and supplement to the Hundred Year Marathon
    Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2019
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    This book could be regarded as a supplement and update on The Hundred Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury. But it is an important update incorporating the latest strategies laid out by Xi on rejuvenation of the nation, the Belt and Road Initiative and the 2025 and 2049 plans. Yet I agree with one reviewer that whilst Pillsbury at least at attempt to lay out some tactics to counter China’s aggression, this book is relatively weak on “Why America Must Win”. To address China’s ambition, a nuanced strategy is called for. Merely trying to isolate China and confront it in any international arena is a very blunt instrument. A nuanced strategy must first differentiate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from the Chinese people. Though many Chinese people are brainwashed to believe in CCP propaganda, few really harbor the ambition to take over the world and put America (and the Western world) under subjugation or have any sympathy over Xi’s domestic oppression. The Chinese people are generally hard working and peace loving. The US and the West could use their financial and economic tools to target at serious abusers of human rights, be they individual officials, their families or corporations. But they should not bar, and instead should welcome Chinese student to enter their countries and learn Western culture and values. We should continue to lambast and denounce the CCP’s abuse of human rights and support anyone oppressed by the CCP for being brave enough to say No to it in or out of China.
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  • art
    5.0 out of 5 stars The strategy for the long haul . . . or not?
    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2020
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    This is an excellent book about Chinese strategy and the history of that line of thinking. The book emphasizes the close-to-the-vest style employed by the Chinese over the centuries and especially its application since Deng. But since having read it last year, I find the Chinese have suddenly embarked on a very un-Chinese strategy of "in your face" diplomacy more akin to the Western gunboat style of diplomacy, sans gunboats. The countries of the West are masters of that strategy. Have the Chinese really changed their strategy or is this a tactical variation of their centuries old strategy? Is their current bluster hiding a sleight of hand continuation of the old strategy? A follow up book by Ward would certainly be a positive step in answering this question.
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  • May
    5.0 out of 5 stars there's no "sharing" with Communist China
    Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2019
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    Thank you Dr. Ward for writing this book! It makes absolutely clear, based on documentation and actions of the Chinese Communist Party, that there will be no "sharing" with China. No dual- or multi- power world, the Communists want to restore The Middle Kingdom, with the Chinese Communist Party in the drivers seat and everyone else paying tribute.
    Dr. Ward has studied, been there, speaks the language literally not figuratively. He presents clearly the fundamental opposition of the Chinese Communist Party to democracy, free speech and assembly, privacy and Western values. I sure got "woke" as will everyone else who reads this fascinating book.
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  • PAB
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but....
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2020
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  • Maxter
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to know whats going on, you have to read this book.
    Reviewed in Germany on November 28, 2019
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    I knew some stuff about China. And I also knew that this country is by far the most serious threat for the free nations in the world. But now that I finished the book I learned, that the case is way more dangerous than I assumed. In my opinion every politician in the western world and Africa should read this work to understand the chinese ambitions and to be prepared for what is coming.
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  • Jake
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for people care about the future of our world.
    Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2019
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    I think those reviews that claim "nothing in this book is something America didn't do, China is just doing the same". Simply didn't read this book, or very short-sighted and stupid or are just China's 50 cents army. People tend to forget the difference between an imperfect democracy and a totalitarian regime. It's an amazing book that will make you understand China's great plan to become the world's number 1 superpower, and the dystopian world order that comes after it. It's a book that will make you say "oh, I know exactly why China is doing this and their rationale behind it" next time when you see a news piece about China. Just understanding the true evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party. This book should be a mandatory read to western policymakers, western high tech companies CEO, CFO. Because American business and policymakers are handing away the world to a totalitarian regime that builds concentration camps and exporting their dystopian way of controlling society to the world, therefore legitimizing such a way of controlling society. It's an excellent book to understand what, why, how, when and everything about CCP.
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  • Client d'Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks
    Reviewed in France on November 1, 2019
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    As said
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  • Allan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Objective; insightful analysis
    Reviewed in Canada on January 2, 2020
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    This is a book which should be getting read and discussed in learning institutions and in general within the western world. It is not fearmongering, or alarmist - it simply provides detail and insight into Chinese political ambition and mindset. When the state controls much of your information, these thoughts permeate the culture. Excellent book.
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