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China’s War on the World
‘The first step of gaining control of any population is to create some kind of fear’
“The pandemic was designed to create enormous fear in populations around the globe.”
T
he warfare is daily,” Gen. Robert Spalding says of China’s policies. “It never ends.”
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, author of "War Without Rules."
In two recent episodes of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek and retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding discuss the Chinese regime’s strategy of unrestricted warfare, in which any and all tools are allowed—from flooding our streets with fentanyl to stealing intellectual property to exploiting a global pandemic. The goal? To dominate the world without firing a single shot. Spalding is an expert in unrestricted warfare and the author of the new book “War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination.” JAN JEKIELEK: “War
GEN. ROBERT SPALDING:
The pandemic was designed to create enormous fear in populations around the globe. The first step of gaining control of any population is to create some kind of fear. You’re willing to give up your freedom, 52 I N S I G H T June 3–9, 2022
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Without Rules” is about another book, “Unrestricted Warfare,” which was written 20 years ago. You call that book the manual that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used to achieve dominance in many areas. In your book, you use the example of how the CCP weaponized the pandemic to explain how one of these unrestricted warfare strategies could work. Why don’t you lay that out for me?
