This book is a must read for anyone concerned about their freedom, threats to that freedom and to the United States and her allies. Please read on...

I initially purchased this as an Audible's book, recommended by a friend, a few days prior to undergoing surgery. A corneal transplant (DMEK) plus cataract removal with an inter-ocular lens replacement in my left eye. I needed something to do while laying on my back and this seemed like it was sufficiently stimulating enough that i wouldn't be bored. I always loved suspense novels like those written by Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth, Tom Clancy, John le Carre, etc. And I thought to myself, this might be even better. It is! It is the real deal!

As I was laying flat on my back. a position I must maintain for almost an entire week so the nitrogen bubble in my eye "glued" the grafted endothelial layer of skin to the back of my cornea, I enjoyed the calm, relaxing tone of the narrator's voice as he outlined, in somewhat astonishing detail, the author's experience about assignments, working for the United States, to collect information pertaining to the plans of China to become a democratic nation, enabling it's citizens human rights and reasonable autonomy.

Much of the U.S. policies toward China when Michael Pillsbury began his assignment, from the Presidencies of Nixon up to and including Bill Clinton, if my recollection is correct, revolved around assessing China's move to become a democratic nation. Which the author described later as wishful thinking.

I entirely finished this book in about three days and was able to move around when my brother contacted me by phone. We discussed this book and he sent me an article from Wall Street Journal "China Is National Security Threat No. 1" written by John Ratcliffe on Dec 3rd, 2020 in the opinion section. My brother works for an IT company that provides security for businesses, and during our conversation he recommended SANDWORM, another book I would highly recommend for the same reasons as the this book. It details how the Soviet Union, oops, I mean "Russia" used hacking technology to destroy the infrastructure and bombard the media with mis and dis information for political races in order to assume control of that country.

I would like to mention right now that once my eye had healed enough for me to remain in a vertical position for the entire day I read many of the negative reviews on this book and, as a result, purchased the Kindle edition of the book so I could reference the text to see if any of those claims were true. I also fact checked a enough material of this book to satisfy myself that this author knew what he was talking about. I think it pretty obvious what my research came back thumbs up for this book.

The bottom line is, if we do not stop fighting amongst ourselves, find some way to work together to address these threats to our nation and our freedom they will both be lost.

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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower