I thought about writing a script about China – thriller, action, intrigue. The last film that dealt with China would be “Red Corner” which a Wikipedia review said, “…more the movie’s subtext swallows its story, until all that is left is Gere’s superior virtue, intermixed with his superior virility — both of which are greatly appreciated by the evidently under-serviced Chinese female population…” The film was banned in China. But it’s fertile ground for material. Imagine the conversation with a Studio Executive…
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Me: So, I found this article by Secretary of Defense Gates: “China Could Undermine U.S. Military Power in the Pacific.” China is expanding its navy in the Pacific to secure disputed territories in the South China Sea with lots of oil and gas. A Tom Clancy/Harrison Ford thriller. I’ve followed the Chinese military since the nineties and it’s a central plot of my novel, “Stealing Thunder.” [2] (Shameless Plug! 600 pages long; waiting for Amazon jerks to come through with the darn discount price…). Think “Clear and Present Danger,” “Hunt for Red October”…
Executive: Liked ‘Sum of All Fears.’
Me: Yes, but the terrorists in the book become cliched neo-Nazis in the film, remember? Gates said that we should be concerned with China’s “… cyber and anti-satellite warfare, anti-air and anti-ship weaponry.”
I studied “Unrestricted Warfare [3],” a book written by two Chinese colonels. Their strategy won’t bankrupt their Free-Enterprise-as-long-as-The-Generals-Get-Their-Cut Economy like the Socialist Soviet Union under Reagan’s brilliant strategy. They said, “One war [1991 Gulf War] changed the world.