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DECEIVING THE SKY Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy Also by Bill Gertz Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 Treachery: How America’s Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies Enemies: How America’s Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets—and How We Let It Happen The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big-Government Republicans Are Undermining America’s Security and Leading Us to War iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age DECEIVING THE SKY Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy Bill Gertz New York • London © 2019 by Bill Gertz All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Encounter Books, 900 Broadway, Suite 601, New York, New York, 10003. First American edition published in 2019 by Encounter Books, an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc., a nonprofit, tax exempt corporation. Encounter Books website address: www.encounterbooks.com Manufactured in the United States and printed on acid-free paper. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA LCCN 2019013888 To the Chinese People Contents INTRODUCTION Deceive the Sky to Cross the Ocean CHAPTER 1 How Communists Lie The 2007 ASAT Test CHAPTER 2 The East Is Red Communism with Chinese Characteristics CHAPTER 3 China Wars The Failure of Pro-China Appeasement CHAPTER 4 The Coming Space War with China CHAPTER 5 Assassin’s Mace in Space CHAPTER 6 Seeking Digital Superiority China’s Cyberattacks CHAPTER 7 High-Tech Totalitarianism CHAPTER 8 Chinese Intelligence Operations CHAPTER 9 Influence Power Beijing and the Art of Propaganda and Disinformation Warfare CHAPTER 10 Financial and Economic Warfare with Chinese Characteristics CHAPTER 11 Corporate Communism Huawei and 5G CHAPTER 12 Military Might World Domination Through the Barrel of a Gun CHAPTER 13 Flashpoints at Sea and China’s String of Pearls Expansion CONCLUSION What Is to Be Done? Declare China an Enemy, Liberate the Chinese People Acknowledgments Notes Index “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.” — Ronald Reagan, address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, March 30, 1961