Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World

A very inciteful picture of where our world, and the United States in particular, is headed. God forbid.

The Chinese keep threatening while their apologists keep denying the threat. Steven Mosher's Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World is still relevant in the post-9/11 world. The Islamofascist terrorists can hurt us, China can destroy us and actually aims to do so. Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu warned in July 2005 that if the U.S. interfered in a Chinese attack on Taiwan it could lead to a Chinese nuclear attack on U.S. cities. Gen. Xiong Guangkai, the Chinese Army's second highest ranking general, made the same threat ten years earlier in 1995, saying that Americans "care more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei." I'll believe the threats of Chinese generals over the self-serving denials of their stooges here in the West.

Steven Mosher is to be congratulateded. In Hegemon he has brilliantly summarized 2,000 years of Chinese history, a history which is based on the notion that China is the center of the world--and should be again. The China Threat is large and growing. China's Minister of Defense, Chi Haotian, recently remarked that "war with the United States was inevitable." These are chilling words, and make it clear that China is prepared to eject the U.S. from Asia by force if necessary, just as they have threatened Taiwan with the use of force unless it "returns to the embrace of the motherland."Steve Mosher's book, Hegemon, is a brilliant essay on the logic of China's historical domination of Asia, and what this implies for the future of Asia and the World. He isl careful to differentiate between the Chinese people, for whom he expresses great admiration, and the Chinese government, which is undeniably one of the most brutal in the world.He proposes a sensible policy for the U.S. and other Western countries to pursue vis-a-vis China--promoting bot only economic reform but also human rights,in the hope of China's peaceful evolution into a free market democracy. Everyone interested in world politics needs to reed this book.

The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union, history. But a new power is rising, one that has 5 times the population of the old Soviet Union -- and a growing economy -- and territorial designs on its neighbors.China has a long and proud history. Dr. Mosher properly puts this into perspective, showing readers that, except for very recent history, China has been bigger and stronger by far than any of its Western counterparts, such as the Roman Empire. The Chinese have a keen sense of this history, as well as their recent (past 150 years) humiliations at the hands of the West and Japan.This book is a must read for all those who think that trade with China can somehow buy off the ambitions of the Chinese leadership to rebuild their empire; their hegemony over Asia and the rest of the world.China has all the potential to make the Cold War with the Soviet Empire look like a walk in the park.

According to the Chinese strategic literature, Chinese strategists believe three things. First, they believe that war with the United States is inevitable, as China's defense minister has recently stated. Second, they believe that China can win such a war. Third, they believe that by the middle of the next century one country--a hegemon--will come to dominate the world, and that this hegemon will be China. Hegemon, Steven Mosher's new book on the China threat, makes it clear that China wants to organize the world the way it has for 2,000 years. It wants China as the center, surrounded by kowtowing tributary states. That is the very meaning of the country's name in Chinese: Zhongguo--the kingdom in the middle. But Mosher tells us that there is another name, even more revealing, that the Chinese have for their country. They call it Tianxia--all under heaven. A fitting name for a once and future hegemon, a manifest ruler of the world. This is a must read for all those concerned about China's growing stature in the world, and what America must do to forestall the China threat, and promote human rights and democracy in that vast and powerful country. Waiting until China attacks Taiwan will be too late. America needs to wake up to a new and chilling reality. Reviewer: Chuck DeVore is a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010, a California State Assemblyman, he served as a Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs in the Department of Defense from 1986 to 1988, retired from the Army National Guard as a lieutenant colonel, and is the co-author of "China Attacks."