The United States is currently embroiled in a cold war with China, according to expert Michael Sobolik, who recently told Fox News Digital that the only path to victory is to go on the offensive in two key areas. Ta.
Sobolik, a senior fellow for Indo-Pacific studies at the U.S. Foreign Policy Council, published a new book on Tuesday, Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance, in which he outlines several ways the United States should fight are doing. China is in the midst of a cold war.
”Chapter 6 of my book is one of the most important parts of the book from a competitive perspective. Because the focus is not on how to compete with Beijing around the world, but on how to exploit the Chinese Communist Party’s weaknesses within China, just as the Chinese Communist Party is infiltrating itself. America in so many ways,” Sobolik told FOX News Digital.
“We need to play on their home court, but there are at least two different ways to do this.”. ”
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Michaele Sobolik, Xi Jinping (Getty Images)
The first step, Sobolik explains, is to crack down on China’s trade routes through the western Xinjiang region, where genocide against the Uyghur people is said to have taken place.
”The Chinese Communist Party commits genocide in its own country, in part because it wants full and complete control over the geographic region to ensure that trade along the Belt and Road corridor flows reliably and safely. Sobolik explained. It is a weakness to commit genocide in order to make foreign policy work properly. It’s not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness and fear, and this has something to do with American policy. This is because much trade leaves China via Xinjiang and heads to many other countries in the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and Europe.. ”
“Much of that trade is done in U.S. dollars. After September 11, 2001, the United States realized that it was not enough to just go after the terrorists themselves,” Sobolik continued. “We also need to go after the financial networks behind terrorist organizations, and there are very strong laws in place that allow the U.S. government to keep terrorists out of the global financial system.
“One of the key policy advocates in my book is that if a country commits genocide largely or in part to derive economic benefit from the genocide, “If that economic benefit comes from the U.S. dollar, then the United States needs to cut that economic benefit and exclude those involved from the global financial system.”
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Chinese President Xi Jinping adjusts his jacket while standing to sing the national anthem during the closing ceremony of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Hang-guan)
Sobolik told Fox News Digital that the U.S. can give China two options: either allow the U.S. dollar to be used or commit genocide, but “we can’t do both.”
“If the United States were to implement such a policy, half of the Belt and Road trade routes in Eurasia would be effectively cut off,” Sobolik said. “This is a huge strategic move for the United States, it will be the most punitive response from Washington against genocidal China to date, and it needs to be carefully and seriously considered by policymakers. I think.”
According to Sobolik, the second “competitive step” the U.S. can take to take on China lies in the “information realm,” especially when it comes to the coronavirus.
”“The reason coronavirus became a pandemic in the first place is because the Chinese Communist Party was more concerned with blocking information about the virus than it was with stopping the virus itself, and Americans subsequently died,” Sobolik said. The coronavirus is here again because they are authoritarian regimes, and authoritarian regimes are afraid of truth and transparency. Freedom of speech in China, transparency in China is not just a human rights issue, but also a national security issue as Americans have died and countless others have died from the coronavirus. ”
In his book, Sobolik details how “the time has come” to stop China’s “Great Firewall” censoring freedom of speech and information, and says the U.S. government is not doing enough on this front. , he told FOX News Digital.
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Michael Sobolik, author of Counting China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance (Fox News Digital)
”“The Chinese Communist Party’s reluctance to pursue one of its greatest weaknesses is once again perpetuating this misconception of the world we live in,” Sobolik argued, adding, “This means we can cooperate and compete with China.” It’s not a positive-sum world.” At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party is waging a cold war to win. If we want to win it, we need to identify the biggest weaknesses our adversary has, and one of those biggest weaknesses is fear of transparency.”
”If they demand complete control of speech within a huge country like China, let’s make it harder for them to achieve it. Let’s make it more expensive for them. To accomplish that, we have to put them on our butts and force them to respond to us. ”
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Sobolik told Fox News Digital that one of the reasons he wrote “Countering China’s Great Game” in the first place was that U.S. policymakers were “going on the offensive and causing problems” against China and not just defending it. He said this is because they need to “take the initiative” instead of “taking control.”
“A good defense can win NBA basketball championships, but a good defense is the bare minimum,” Sobolik said. “You’re good at housework. You don’t get a gold star by taking care of your homeland. You get a gold star by going out and opposing a dictatorship. The Cold War is about seizing the initiative and going on the offensive. That’s how you win.”
