When China Attacks

A Warning to America

By: Col. Grant Newsham

Narrated by: Axel Bosley

Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

A warning about America’s impending war with China. The conflict is coming, a former Marine intelligence officer shows, and we’re not ready. But it’s not too late to prepare.

Communist China is ambitious. It wants to replace the United States as the world’s leading superpower. And it is well on its way. It is dominant in the world economy. It is a master at intellectual property theft. It shows strategic genius at cornering essential markets. It has been staggeringly successful in buying influence among American elites. And its military buildup is astonishing.

So far, China has been waging a cold war on the United States and its Asian allies. But, emboldened by American weakness and decline, that cold war is about to turn hot. The flashpoint will be Taiwan—but the war will extend over the entire Pacific Theatre. The results could be devastating.

America is facing the possibility of humiliating regional retreat—one with almost unimaginable costs to our economy and security. That’s the warning of Grant Newsham, a longtime China analyst for the Marine Corps, the Foreign Service, and Morgan Stanley Bank in Japan. His shocking new book When China Attacks is a fire bell in the night—a warning about an imminent hot war that we are already in the process of losing. It offers a frightening, but well-founded, blow-by-blow account of what might happen.

Is American defeat inevitable? No, but only if America’s leaders heed the sobering message of When China Attacks.

©2023 Col. Grant Newsham (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

Must read…

…Every single American Citizen should read this book! I enjoyed the intro, which is what could happen if nothing changes… and there is still time to change!

Forewarned is Forearmed

Excellent presentation of the dangers ahead if we don’t change our approach to China. Every leader in Congress needs to take heed.

Most worthwhile book which I have listened to in a long time.

Full of facts, common sense and clear thinking.. Should be on the suggested reading lists for our leaders as well as Americans generally. Great book, especially good narrator/reader

Great Book

A must read for anyone studying the CCP and their global ambitions. Leaders must read this book.

You have to read this one

This is a very important book written by an insider, who has served his country and spent decades in Asia, working in various capacities, among others behind the scenes helping US allies
The opening is like watching Private Ryan, an incredible description of what might be awaiting the US and Asia in case of a Chinese invasion
What follows later is a wake-up call and a summary of all the Western failures of the last two decades, showing how the CCP is strong due to Western correctness and weakness
The last part of the book is about ways how we can still defend ourselves and try to win this war

Needed information

We need to wake up to those in this country that are selling us out. Col. Newsham is showing us our time is short yet we can do something about it. Thank you

Please America, read this book.

Thank you for writing this book. It's frustrating but necessary to be aware of the 'all in' approach China is and has been taking to destroy America from the inside out. Every utterance is jaw dropping, but no speculation. Grant Newsham has done fantastic research and clearly knows what he is talking about. The one thing I want to talk about specifically and is the thing the prompted me to write my first ever review ties in an entirely separate video that started playing about details of the Hunter and Joe Biden corruption scandle that I had not heard before, and that made me stop the video and pull up the chapter in this book about economic warfare ( chapter 11 I believe). I could not believe what I was hearing and needed to double check and wonder why NO ONE including those constantly talking about the bidens corruption has not been talking about this which may well be the worst thing yet. In the video a utuber talks about a trip in 2013 that VP Biden and Hunter took to China where Joe met with xi and Hunter met with a chineese banker named Johnathan Lee . 10 days later a new company was formed called BHR partners. hunter Biden sat on the board and Mr Lee was the CEO. In 2016 BHR was involved in the sale of the same cobalt mine in the congo that Mr Newsham mentions in the economic warfare chapter. Then in 2017 hunter bought a 10 percent stake in BHR for 420,000 dollars. then in 2022 joe passes the oddly named inflation reduction act that provisions 369 Billion dollars for climate and energy. it is critical to understand that if we want.. or need... or are forced to buy electric cars, cobalt is absolutely needed and to get it now requires going through China. Even though I read this book a while ago I remembered this part clearly because it made no sense. even Mr Newsham who is far more restrained then I could be calls the american business and political leaders 'fools'. They knew about the importance of cobalt yet no American companies bid on this deal. it seemed so bizzare and frustrating. now it makes sense. people were somehow being stopped from bidding is the only sensible thing to explain this and given this is the same Mr Lee that hunters text message where he tries pressing me lee as 'he and his father who is in the room with him are demanding action'. this actually explains a lot. even Mr Newsham and others pointing out the China threat can never answer the basic question of ' why are we doing this seemingly to ourselves? '. I mean, why are we just letting china get away with it all? we can't be that dumb. that oblivious. sure there's greed, but even the wall Street greed can not explain all of it. this helps. tying this idea to many other aspects of the book I admit is speculation but by doing so, I felt like what copernicus must have felt like when he explained all the anomalies of the ptolemaic system by simply putting the sun in the middle instead of the earth. that is, with just a small perceptual shift in the most basic cause everything else falls into place.

Repetitive and full of bias

Although there are interesting information about China relationship with the rest of the world, the author seems to repeat his biases, often in sufficiently supported by evidence. I tried to finish the book but I just couldn’t do it.

This book weakens the US by dividing its citizens

I give this book 2 stars because if it’s aim is to further US National Security, the blind spots outweigh the correctly stated facts about US-China relations. In order to create strategy to further our National Security, it is imperative that the policy makers and decision makers can absorb facts and trends without bias or blind spots. In such a partisan time, it is especially crucial that these leaders do now allow their political leanings to get in the way of absorbing facts in a sober-minded manner. Any leader that approaches the China problem with a partisan bias first and foremost will endanger the US and it’s allies. Therefore it is crucial we listen to moderate voices that do not demonstrate political bias as we prepare the country for the more dangerous world where China is increasingly aggressive.

Imagine a circle. At the top is authoritarianism. At the bottom is democracy. If you start from democract and go along the circle just to the right you have moderate Republicans. If you start from democracy and go along the circle just to the left you have moderate Democrats. These days most people that affiliate with political parties are further along the circle than the moderate section. So go a bit farther either way and you have most democrats and republicans today. But what if you keep going in either direction? The farther you push either ideology, the farther you get away from democracy and the closer you get to authoritarianism. This is the danger of either political party taken to its ultimate extreme without checks or balances.

The author is writing from a far right perspective trying to prevent the US from ultimately being turned into a vassal state of China under one-party rule. Yet he sees the problem of authoritarianism as a distinctly radical Democrat problem. He is blind to the fact that if he takes his ideology just a little farther to the right than where he currently is, the US is weakened, cannot stand up to China, and becomes its own authoritarian nation. This blind spot makes this book dangerous despite a lot of factual information. This book seeks to call to action but the call to action is to fight against liberals rather than to join liberals in a bipartisan effort to unite against Chinese aggression.

There are many good books about the current US-China tensions that give factual advice in a bipartisan way. These books are just as sober about the dangerous realities of China and it’s goals. Yet these books deliver their information in a way that brings together the citizens of the US rather than separate them. If we are to stand up to such a huge threat as China, only united will we stand, protect our allies and ultimately prevail.

Awful and weird

This book contains some weird jumps where you’re suddenly in a future fantasy version of the US that is inspired by China.

I thought this was a serious book about a serious subject but while the subject is serious this book is at times absurd. There must be way better sources on the subject than this.

Definitely going for a refund if that’s still possible.