The Enemy Inside
“He was halfway along on his journey, the two-and-a-half-hour flight from Hong Kong back to Beijing.
As he looked down on the sprawling foothills he could see another dam under construction, one in a vast series of projects.
China had come a long way. Cheng may have been a godless bureaucrat, but he knew that his nation had been blessed more than once by Joss, the ancient Chinese god of good fortune. They had but one great adversary left in the world, America, and to Cheng’s thinking, ba...sed on every measure available to him, America was in decline.
While the United States was distracted with its Mideast adventures and its myopic focus on terrorism, China was busy investing in long-term infrastructure and industry, grabbing up critical global resources—oil, metals, and rare earth among others. Even the fabled iPhone and the Apple computer were assembled in China.
As America’s wars dragged on with no long-term political solution, voters grew weary.MoreLess
As he looked down on the sprawling foothills he could see another dam under construction, one in a vast series of projects.
China had come a long way. Cheng may have been a godless bureaucrat, but he knew that his nation had been blessed more than once by Joss, the ancient Chinese god of good fortune. They had but one great adversary left in the world, America, and to Cheng’s thinking, ba...sed on every measure available to him, America was in decline.
While the United States was distracted with its Mideast adventures and its myopic focus on terrorism, China was busy investing in long-term infrastructure and industry, grabbing up critical global resources—oil, metals, and rare earth among others. Even the fabled iPhone and the Apple computer were assembled in China.
As America’s wars dragged on with no long-term political solution, voters grew weary.MoreLess
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