By: Bill Gertz, read in 2020

7 A summary of Trump's new China policies.
10 "On January 11, 2007...SC-19's non-explosive kinetic kill vehicle traveling at nearly 5 miles per second slammed into the satellite at an altitude of 530 miles, four degrees west of the launch point from the Xichang launch center...The satellite was destroyed instantly."
11 "the Soviet Union was created in 1922 by Vladimir Lenin."
21 "When the Chinese online community began using the image of Winnie the Pooh as a surrogate for Xi,...the image was banned on all state-controlled media."
24 "Xi, since his rise, has emerged as a killer in the mold of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao. He has become the incarnation of the three murderous tyrants."
28 "For China's 1.4 billion people, the realization is becoming increasingly clear that the rulers and the Communist Party are little more than a collection of thugs, and the system is a massive hoax that everyone must pretend to believe in."
138 "The danger of China influence, interference, and propaganda is that it is producing a steady erosion of American national sovereignty in many areas, such as undermining the fundamental electoral process of democracy and government policymaking and ultimately infringing on fundamental civil rights of Americans.

This growing threat cannot be ignored and must be countered if the United States is to remain a free and open society."
143 "...one of the more ominous developments facilitating Chinese penetration of these markets took place in June 2018 when Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) revealed that 234 Chinese A-shares, or domestic shares, would be included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index." Was this event what triggered me to divest our Chinese holdings?
146 "A month after his election as president in 2016, Donald Trump held a meeting of the nation's most powerful technology industry executives...Tim Cook of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Alphabet (parent company of Google); Elon Musk of Tesla; Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, and Satya Nadella of Microsoft...The meeting with Trump that December was to be the beginning of a new policy toward China that represented a major strategic shift for the United States. For the first time in nearly forty years the US government was pushing back against what has been unbridled Chinese economic warfare against the United States."
148 "...early on during the campaign...countering the threat from China was one of three priorities for the president. The other two included solving the problem of mass illegal immigration and confronting the growing nuclear danger posed by North Korea."
149 "Peter Navarro, an economist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, with little Washington experience. Navarro attracted the attention of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016 with his book and film Death by China, which highlighted the economic and trade threat posed by Beijing. Navarro would be appointed to a new White House post as assistant to the president and director of trade and industrial policy.

Initial plans called for Navarro to be given broad power within the White House and the administration. However, pro-China officials on many occasions were successful in boxing him out bureaucratically by first reducing his staff and then keeping him away from the White House by moving him to an office in the Eisenhower Executive Building adjacent to the West Wing."
150 "For Bannon, the new approach to China is to apply Reagan's strategy toward the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Reagan said in 1988 at a Moscow summit: "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.""
151 "Cultural warfare is China's use of Confucius Institutes around the world as stealth vehicles for promoting Chinese communism. In the United States there are more than a hundred Confucius Institutes that have been used for promoting cultural Marxism, a trend that has contributed to the increase in affinity for socialism among many young Americans."
153 According to Qiao and Wang, "...when people revise the history books on twentieth-century warfare in the early twenty-first century, the section on financial warfare will command the reader's utmost attention. The main protagonist in this section of the history book will not be a statesman or a military strategist; rather, it will be [political activist and billionaire financier] George Soros."
163 "Huawei is not a private company or even a company. It is a deception operation masquerading as a company that until 2019 successfully fooled thousands of people around the world. The real purpose of Huawei, as with other faux companies, is industrial espionage, intellectual property theft, and human intelligence-gathering operations."
213 "What is crystal clear is this fact: The American-led global system of governance and commerce has produced the most fantastic and extraordinary advancement of humanity in the history of the world."