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"""The Final Struggle shows, using the regime's own words, how Beijing's aspirations aren't regional-they're global, with grave implications not only for democracy, but for the centuries-old principle of national sovereignty."" -Matt Pottinger The Chinese government has a sinister secret. And it's hiding in plain sight. Drawing from internal military documents and never-before-seen writings and speeches by Xi Jinping, The Final Struggle takes readers inside Beijing's shadowy halls of power to reveal the plans, intentions, and operations of the most powerful - and covert - political organization in the world. For decades the economic rise of China has been paired with an insistence from the government in Beijing that theirs would be a peaceful rise; that other countries had nothing to fear from China. The democratic world has been largely content to accept those promises, as cheap manufactured goods and huge profits for Western elites flowed out of China. In truth, leaders from Deng Xiaoping onward have been biding their time as China's power grew. Today a strengthened, emboldened Chinese Communist Party is dropping the act. Chairman Xi Jinping has amassed more power than any leader since Mao Zedong, and his officials openly proclaim their intention to change the world, subvert democratic norms and instill their own brand of autocratic control. In a nutshell: to remake the world in China's image, something Xi refers to as ""the final struggle"". The arenas the CCP seeks to control include global manufacturing, currency markets, finance, trade, security, food production and distribution, human rights, health, counter-terrorism, human rights, strategic resources, and more. Taken together this amounts to nothing less than a desire for global domination, a desire the Party has already started to make a reality. Deeply researched and engagingly written, The Final Struggle is an urgent call to understand Beijing's true intentions, and to act before it's too late."

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Ian Easton's The Final Struggle: Inside China's Global Strategy is a must-read for anyone who cares about freedom's future. It's a convincing and in-depth study of the CCP's unbridled ambition for global dominance. -Mike Pompeo, former CIA director and U.S. Secretary of State The Final Struggle shows, using the regime's own words, how Beijing's aspirations aren't regional-they're global, with grave implications not only for democracy, but for the centuries-old principle of national sovereignty. -Matt Pottinger, former Deputy National Security Advisor An accessible and compelling look at the Party, how it operates, and the world it envisions. The Final Struggle is essential reading for anyone interested in defending the free world. -Congressman Mike Gallagher Easton's use of open source and leaked CCP and PLA documents is a prima facie case for why the U.S. needs to invest in more research of this type. The Final Struggle is an important addition to the China strategic studies canon. -Kelley Currie, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues A great explanation of how we got to a world where China 'would no longer even pretend to defer to the United States on the world stage' - and what to do about it. -Isaac Stone Fish, author of America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger The Final Struggle depicts the future we have to forestall and sounds an alarm we must heed. -Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, President and CEO of Long Term Strategy Group Easton's conclusions are grim and will be controversial, but they deserve to be considered and debated. -Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University In this rigorous yet accessible study, Ian Easton delivers the definitive and often chilling account of China's ambitions to supplant the existing global system. -Toshi Yoshihara, coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific Ian Easton's exhaustive study of the dystopian new world order Xi Jinping hopes to impose serves as a stark warning that we must prevail against the CCP's grand designs. -Dan Blumenthal, author of The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State

Ian Easton's The Final Struggle: Inside China's Global Strategy is a must-read for anyone who cares about freedom's future. It's a convincing and in-depth study of the CCP's unbridled ambition for global dominance. -Mike Pompeo, former CIA director and U.S. Secretary of State The Final Struggle shows, using the regime's own words, how Beijing's aspirations aren't regional-they're global, with grave implications not only for democracy, but for the centuries-old principle of national sovereignty. -Matt Pottinger, former Deputy National Security Advisor An accessible and compelling look at the Party, how it operates, and the world it envisions. The Final Struggle is essential reading for anyone interested in defending the free world. -Congressman Mike Gallagher Easton's use of open source and leaked CCP and PLA documents is a prima facie case for why the U.S. needs to invest in more research of this type. The Final Struggle is an important addition to the China strategic studies canon. -Kelley Currie, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues A great explanation of how we got to a world where China 'would no longer even pretend to defer to the United States on the world stage' - and what to do about it. -Isaac Stone Fish, author of America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger The Final Struggle depicts the future we have to forestall and sounds an alarm we must heed. -Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, President and CEO of Long Term Strategy Group Easton's conclusions are grim and will be controversial, but they deserve to be considered and debated. -Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University In this rigorous yet accessible study, Ian Easton delivers the definitive and often chilling account of China's ambitions to supplant the existing global system. -Toshi Yoshihara, coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific

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Ian Easton is a Senior Director at the Project 2049 Institute, where he studies defense and security issues involving the People's Republic of China. Previously, Easton was a visiting fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs, a China analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, and a researcher for the Asia Bureau of Defense News. He has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and given talks at the U.S. Naval War College, U.S. Army JAG School, Japan's National Defense Academy, Taiwan's National Defense University, and Germany's Command and Staff College. Easton holds an M.A. in China Studies from National Chengchi University in Taiwan and a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He studied Mandarin at Fudan University in Shanghai and National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.

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