China Attacks: a techno-thriller by Chuck DeVore and Steven W. Mosher
The Hong Kong Standard, February 13, 2001, by Peter Barker ...a page-turning flurry of the point-counterpoint world of military invasion and international political brinkmanship...
Human Events, May 7, 2001, by J. Curtis Lovelace "... a page-turner for those interested in Sino-American affairs... ...this commonsense approach to foreign relations couldn't be more timely."
Writer's Digest "...the authors set up the global chessboard and raise the stakes higher and higher..."
Armor Magazine, Sept-Oct. 2002, by 1LT John P.J. Derosa China Attacks is an astonishing novel... ... realistic and bracing... (it) provides us with looming threats of immobilizing tactics.
The Strategy Page, August 6, 2002, by Adam Geibel ...a well-told piece of art imitating life: will the Asian dragon triumph...?
Book Description China Attacks is an exciting, entertaining, yet informative novel that explores the international politics that may be leading the world to war, describes America's and China's vast military capabilities and plans, and posits a riveting scenario of catastrophic conflict as superpowers collide over the island nation of the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Told through the eyes of five main characters: a young, brash and beautiful CIA analyst; a rock-solid Marine Corps colonel; an Army National Guardsman; a Chinese commando officer; and a member of China's Communist Party elite, China Attacks, leads the reader through deception, betrayal, brutality and triumph.
From the Authors This book, now in its second edition, is a fictional treatment of how China might seek to attack Taiwan in the near future. Steven Mosher and I put a year of research and writing into this effort. We're pleased that the book has been translated into Chinese and sells in Taiwan. We hope you buy our book, read it, and find it hard to put down!
About the Authors Chuck DeVore is a California State Assemblyman serving 450,000 people in Orange County, California. He served in the Reagan-era Pentagon as a Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs. He later served on the staff of former Congressman Chris Cox (now Chairman of the SEC). He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Army National Guard in 2007. Prior to being elected in 2004, Mr. DeVore was vice president for research for an aerospace company.
Steven W. Mosher has used his fluency in Mandarin and experience living in China to help him research his best-selling non-fiction books about China and Asia including Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese and A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy. Mosher's latest book, Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World, was published by Encounter Books.
Author Chuck DeVore in Taipei with the Chinese language edition of CHINA ATTACKS
In mid-July 2005, Zhu Chenghu, a top general in the People's Liberation Army, threatened America with nuclear attack if the U.S. intervened to defend the democratic nation of Taiwan if China attacked.
In 1994, another Chinese general, later promoted to the second ranking officer in China, threatened Los Angeles with nuclear destruction.
Might the People's Republic of China be the 21st Century's Nazi Germany? With a revanchist nationalist ideology, state-guided capitalism, a massive military build-up, and a repressive one-party state, they certainly appear so.Most in the West are blind to this, of course, with making money being the sole concern.Very few Americans know the history of Chinese repression in Tibet, or care about the mass imprisonments of Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, or are aware of the increasingly violent crackdowns on protesting workers and farmers.And even those who are conversant in China's internal repression shrug off China's war rhetoric as just that: rhetoric.
First, some myth-busting facts about China would be in order. The CIA sets China's economic output at $7.3 trillion with a 9.1 percent growth rate.This is double the purchasing power parity of Japan and now more than half of the U.S. economy. China makes the most steel, consumes the second highest amount of oil, burns the largest quantity of coal in the world, now emitting more greenhouse gases than any other nation.They spend about $67.5 billion per year on their rapidly modernizing military, the second largest military expenditures in the world. China has active territorial disputes with India, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, and possibly Brunei, while lingering issues remain with Russia and Burma.
And then there's Taiwan, the democratic island nation of 23 million people that China claims as a renegade province, unworthy of independence.Earlier in 2005, the rubberstamp Chinese legislature passed an anti-succession bill aimed at justifying a war should the Taiwanese declare themselves independent through a national referendum.This parallels Nazi Germany's actions in 1938 when they invaded Austria the day before a scheduled Austrian referendum to affirm independence from Germany.This became known as the "Anschluss" or annexation. Might China attempt a similar move against Taiwan?
CHINA ATTACKS is the story of this war; how it may happen, and how it may end.
China Attacks was translated into Chinese for sale in Taiwan - it is banned in China
For more information about CHINA ATTACKS in English, see Amazon.com.
