Kerby Anderson
How will the new administration deal with the China challenge? We can get some perspective from Senator Marco Rubio’s book, Decades of Decadence. He will soon be confirmed as Secretary of State. He exposes China’s attacks on four key elements of American strength: good local jobs, stable families, geographical communities, and a sovereign nation that serves as a beacon of freedom and prosperity.
He explained in his book that the U.S. and other Western countries made the false assumption that nation states would be more focused on economic interests and therefore would not go to war with each other. Politicians started making decisions that benefited this system and stopped making decisions about what was good for America. This empowered China, and now we are heavily dependent upon them for all sorts of essential goods.
We assumed countries would be doing what was good for the global economy and international order. Senator Rubio explained in my radio interview that “China didn’t get that memo, and Russia didn’t get that memo, and Iran didn’t get that memo, and North Korea didn’t get that memo.” Many countries have been operating in their national interest. Bringing China into the World Trade Organization (WTO) didn’t change China. It changed America.
We also need to address the myth that Chinese aggression is due to tensions between China and America that were created by U.S. foreign policy. It was convenient to blame Donald Trump for Chinese aggression. That argument no longer works. For the last four years we have seen the feckless Biden foreign policy. China has become more aggressive, not less. Trump wasn’t the problem. Chinese global intentions are the reason for its actions.
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio seem ready to face the daunting challenge of an overly aggressive China. They need your prayers.

Kerby Anderson
The recent Department of Defense report should concern all Americans. The authors conclude that China is engaged in the largest military build-up since Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Colonel Grant Newsham once served as the Marine liaison officer to Japan and is also a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy. His book, When China Attacks: A Warning to America, documents Communist China’s ongoing covert war against the United States and its allies. He gave a sobering interview with WorldNetDaily about China’s military intentions.
He explained that “China’s military build-up has been going on for over 30 years – regardless of who has been in the White House – Democrat or Republican.” It is true that the Chinese Communist Party has been emboldened by American weakness and perceived decline. And he added that “the Chinese communists certainly did not fear the Biden administration.”
On the other hand, Newsham argued, “The first Trump administration was the first one in my lifetime that actually frightened Beijing.” But that did not slow down the Chinese military build-up.” He warns, “Beijing will not let up in its quest to be able to dominate – and defeat, if possible – the U.S. and the U.S. military.”
He is not the only person warning Americans about China. Gordon Chang, in his book, Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America, warns that “China has a plan to destroy America. Does America have a plan to defend itself?” Even leftists, like Martin Jacques, write about When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order.
The Trump administration must be ready to face the formidable China challenge.