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For Susan
 
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Author’s Note
Introduction: Wishful Thinking
  1. The China Dream
  2. Warring States
  3. Only China Could Go to Nixon
  4. Mr. White and Ms. Green
  5. America, the Great Satan
  6. China’s Message Police
  7. The Assassin’s Mace
  8. The Capitalist Charade
  9. A China World Order in 2049
10. Warning Shots
11. America as a Warring State
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Also by Michael Pillsbury
About the Author
Copyright
 
AUTHOR’S NOTE
The CIA, the FBI, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and an agency of the Defense Department reviewed this book prior to publication to ensure that there was no disclosure of classified information. I appreciate the work of the reviewers to remove any sensitive operational details that might jeopardize methods used in the field.
 
INTRODUCTION
WISHFUL THINKING
“Deceive the heavens to cross the ocean.”
—The Thirty-Six Stratagems
At noon on November 30, 2012, beneath a clear late-autumn sky, Wayne Clough, the white-bearded, affable secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, appeared before a collection of cameras and microphones. As he spoke, a cold wind blew across the National Mall. The audience stood bundled in their overcoats as a representative of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held aloft a mysterious gold medal. The Smithsonian’s honored guest that day was the famed Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang, who had been feted the night before at a tony gala inside the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art—an event cohosted by my wife, Susan. Some four hundred guests, among them House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, Princess Michael of Kent, and the seventy-four-year-old widow of the shah of Iran, clinked glasses to celebrate the Chinese-American relationship and to catch a glimpse of Cai, who had won international acclaim for his awe-inspiring fireworks display during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Cai was known to celebrate Chinese symbols with performance art, and had once used lighted fires to extend the Great Wall by ten kilometers so it could be better seen from space. Our evenin ............

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