Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept

China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security.

The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America’s national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America’s economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure–and they’re winning. It’s almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese.

In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China’s motives and secret attacks on the West. Chronicling how our leaders have failed to protect us over recent decades, he provides shocking evidence of some of China’s most brilliant ploys, including:

  โ€ข  Placing Confucius Institutes in universities across the United States that serve to monitor and control Chinese students on campus and spread communist narratives to unsuspecting American students.

  โ€ข  Offering enormous sums to American experts who create investment funds that funnel technology to China.

  โ€ข  Signing a thirty-year agreement with the US that allows China to share peaceful nuclear technology, ensuring that they have access to American nuclear know-how.

Spalding’s concern isn’t merely that America could lose its position on the world stage. More urgently, the Chinese Communist Party has a fundamental loathing of the legal protections America grants its people and seeks to create a world without those rights.

Despite all the damage done so far, Spalding shows how it’s still possible for the U.S. and the rest of the free world to combat–and win–China’s stealth war.

Editorial Reviews

Review

โ€œ[A] searing exposรฉ of how the Chinese Communist Party continues to conduct its war for
influence around the world.โ€
โ€•Washington Examiner

โ€œAs the former US Department of Defense attachรฉ to China, General Spalding is in a unique position to offer a gripping tale of the multiple battlefronts of Chinaโ€™s war against America. Ten years from now, readers will remember this seminal work that accurately describes the current and future states of play between the worldโ€™s great powers.โ€
โ€•J. Kyle Bass, Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management

About the Author

Robert Spalding retired from the U.S. Air Force as a brigadier general after more than 25 years of service. He is a former China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, as well as a senior defense official and defense attache to China. He earned his doctorate in economics and mathematics from the University of Missouri and is fluent in Mandarin.

Excerpt. ยฉ Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Introduction

I know something about stealth. In 1998, I began training to pilot Bโ€‘2 Spirits, known far and wide as Stealth Bombers. The Bโ€‘2 was at that time the high- profile new weapon in the US Air Force arsenal, a dazzling, billion-dollar, high-tech machine that looked like it had flown in from a future century. Its โ€œcontinuous curvatureโ€ allowed it to avoid detection by the electromagnetic waves used by radar systems to track objects. In other words, I learned to fly a plane that achieved something every military strategist has dreamed of: being invisible.

Twenty years laterโ€” having served as chief China strateยญgist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as seยญnior US Defense official and Defense attachรฉ to the Peopleโ€™s Republic of Chinaโ€” I left my position as senior director for strategic planning at the White House, deeply concerned about a different stealth weapon being turned against my country. For the past forty years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been playing a beautiful game. It is sophisยญticated yet simple. It is a competition to gain control and influence across the planetโ€” and to achieve that outcome without resorting to military engagement.

Flying quietly below the radar, the CCP has been acยญquiring technology without paying a cent toward developยญing it, carefully taking control of the worldโ€™s shipping businesses, infiltrating our corporations and science laboraยญtories, and using American investor dollars to float the cost of its own factories and companiesโ€” and then, adding inยญsult to injury, insisting that that money stay in China.

War between nation-states in the twenty-first century looks much different than war in the nineteenth and twenยญtieth centuries. Instead of bombs and bullets, itโ€™s about ones and zeros and dollars and cents: economics, finance, data information, manufacturing, infrastructure, and comยญmunications. Control those fronts today, and you can win a war without firing a shot. Itโ€™s a simple, logical strategy. And it is one leaders in the West have been very slow to grasp.

Our political, military, corporate, and fiscal leaders have failed to recognize the subtle game the CCP has been playยญing. They have been operating, understandably, under the now outdated idea that war is fought only with bombs and bullets. The CCP strategy, however, is to fight in other ways, utilizing a variety of tactics. It advocates and sponsors a constant focus on theft, coercion, economic sabotage, and monopolization of infrastructure on a global levelโ€” all to increase Chinaโ€™s sphere of influence. Everywhere.

Like the Bโ€‘2 bombers I flew, the CCPโ€™s stealth war isnโ€™t truly covert. It has been hiding in plain sight. How did we miss it? Iโ€™m not interested in pointing fingers at one particยญular party. Both Republican and Democratic elites have missed the signsโ€” or are complicitโ€” and as a patriot who cares about my fellow citizens, my main interest is to defend the people of this country and the ideas that have driven it since it was founded.

Perhaps nothing threatens the CCP more than the Conยญstitution of the United States. Chinaโ€™s president, Xi Jinping, has stated as much, and CCP documents that I will share make clear that fundamental American conceptsโ€”the rights of free speech and freedom of religionโ€”are threats to the authoritarian power of the CCP, which believes that these liberties must never be allowed to take root in China and must never be the rights of Chinese citizens.

The CCPโ€™s fundamental loathing of our Bill of Rights and other legal protections should be chilling to anyone who values freedom. It is the primary reason I am writing this book. I want to alert the world to Chinaโ€™s stealth war and its strategy to dominate the planet by focusing on six spheres of influence: the economy, the military, global diยญplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure.

China is closing in on achieving its goal of influencing the politicians and corporations of the United States. If this happens, fundamental freedoms we take for grantedโ€” the ability to criticize a politician or a policy, to publish political statements, to report on governmental abuse or inefficiency, to sing the lyrics you want, to study literally any subject under the sun, to visit any website, no matter what ideology is espousedโ€” will come under assault.

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