China's Vision of Victory

Have not heard such a perspective about the Chinese Government and it’s political agenda.This book is a great way to supplement any information about the future of our global environment as a whole

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!

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.

I purchased this book as a followup on Pillsbury's 100 year marathon in the hopes of understanding the Chinese elite vision of what a Sino century would look like. Unfortunately, most of the book was an overlap on previous reviews of China's rise and how they have done it, and not enough into the psychological/social/political idea's into what the future holds once China holds the torch. It does a good job breaking down the strategies and tactics of the communist regime, hence the 3 stars, but the book didn't provide what the title suggested; insights into what a China dominated world will actually look like.

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.

The Chinese Communist Party's goals are actually quite scary if achieved. They wish to control the world in technology, space, militarily, production and culturally. Their use of the global media is brilliant and their espionage is also first rate especially technologically. All done under the reassuring guise of returning China to what it was centuries ago. However what it was then was number one but without a navy. Today with a culture that permits no individual rights as one can only serve the Party being a global number one has a completely different connotation.This is a book the entire world should read regardless of one's personal views. The Chinese, Indians, Europeans and North Americans. Particularily perhaps those countries accepting "gifts" in the Belt and Road program.

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.

Interesting but hard work

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.

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.

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.

It gets a bit repetitive, but the subject matter is crucial. The scariest book I have read in a long time.