Book synopsis: (from Goodreads)
Trump vs. China: Facing America’s Greatest Threat
by Newt Gingrich
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounds the warning bell that communist-ruled China poses the biggest threat to the United States that we have seen in our lifetime.
The United States is currently engaged in a competition with the Chinese government unlike any other that we have witnessed before. This is a competition between the American system—which is governed by freedom and the rule of law—and a totalitarian dictatorship that is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. These are two different visions for the future; one will succeed, and one will fail.
My geopolitical guys have always said that China doesn’t bluff.
Far more than even the feckless politicians, it is our own business leaders who have brought us to this point. Many of them should be hanging from ropes for their treason in selling out the United States for their own personal gain. And the globalism fetish has directly led to a situation in which one company, TSMC, in one small island nation, has become so critical to the global supply chain that their demise could wreck the economy of every developed nation. Chasing ever-cheaper labor has put the world in peril. The United States is populous and resource rich enough to be a nearly self-contained economy. There is no excuse for farming out production of critical resources or components to other countries, especially when those items (such as semiconductors) have immense strategic implications.
Whatever happened to the idea of having many sources for goods so that competition could flourish? Instead, we’ve gotten this global supply chain that is littered with single points of failure.