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Red Dragon Rising: Communist China's Military Threat to America

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Being a student of the People's Liberation Army, I must commend Timperlake and Triplett for a long overdue effort to present the painful truth about the key enforcing pilar of power in the PRC today. As did the Cox Report earlier this year, RED DRAGON RISING presents a wake-up call for a country who's gaze has been averted by a corrupt administration and a national security bureaucracy that would rather salute and ignore a growing threat to America. They present for the first time in greater detail than anywhere else: the PLA export of nuclear and missile technology to Pakistan; how the PLA has long used North Korea as a front for proliferation; how the PLA CAN win the future war for Taiwan and begin to chase the US out of Asia; and how the PLA's investment in asymetrical warfare, namely information warfare, could lay low the United States.

Read this book for your kids. Really. You need to be informed about the wars we are blundering into, so that you can choose leaders today who can try to ensure that your kids don't have to march off to that awful future conflict.

Red Dragon Rising takes its place among the most important books that deal with America's future and the military challenge posed by communist China. It is must reading for both Asia and U.S. national security scholars. The book's photos and graphic naratives prove, beyond any doubt, the horrendous extent of the massacre of pro-democracy students and activists at Tiananmen Square and documents the current positions of the Chinese military commanders of the massacre. Triplett and Timperlake show that, unfortunately, a number of those brutal Tiananmen generals -- who now control China's nuclear arsenal aimed at the United States -- have been treated as guests of honor at the Clinton White House and at the Pentagon. Red Dragon Rising is a riveting clarion call to understand the peril we face and the need to rebuild America's military and counter-intelligence systems in the wake of the Clinton Chinagate scandals.

Year of the Rat, a frightening portrayal of an administration willing to sell out their country for their own financial gain, was only part of the story. Now Red Dragon Rising tells about the military that bought our administration.

Over the past 50 years the history of the PLA proves power does come from the barrel of a gun. Triplett and Timperlake show the atrocities Communist Chinese are willing to commit in order to keep control of their own citizens and neighbors, and what the Clinton administration is willing to do to curry favors from these murders. The generals, who ordered the Tiananmen Massacre, later were received with full honors at the Clinton White House. The students were only seeking freedom and the US repaid their memory by giving the Chinese government access to our weapons technology and military training. This administration continues to ignore undeniable proof of China's weapons proliferation to rouge nations, the theft of our nuclear secrets and hostile threats against its neighbors. The lack of a coherent foreign policy now upsets balance of power in Asia. China's growing military strength will be an issue all Americans will have to face in the next millennium.

Bill and Ed's first-hand insights are unsettling. They are knowledgable and have had some amazing resume's that detail their national security experience. The White House's response "no one cares" unfortunately is true. The lies and the depth to which they are exposed makes you wonder how Clinton can call China a "strategic partner." Glaring human rights violations, Clinton passing his blessings on giving away our best missile technology are just some of the deceptions exposed in this chronicle.

As Admiral Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese task force that struck Pearl Harbor in 1941 is quoted as saying: I am afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant. While the book is not easy reading, the message is compelling. As a student of Chinese metamorphosis since I was with the U. S. occupation forces in China in 1945, working with the Chiang Kai Shek forces, I have watched with interest the brilliance of the Chinese rulers (after Mao - who was a psychopath in my opinion) in putting together a workable system of the old shell game. Using cheap labor, most of whom are owned by the Chinese government, they have lured international firms to China with the song of free land (50-year lease) and low-cost labor in such a way as to convince the otherwise prescient foreign companies that there is a fabulous market for their products in China - a thesis that turns out to be absolutely absurd when wages in communist China are less than 4 dollars a day. To their credit, the Chinese really grasp the principles of the free market, in my opinion much better than the Americans, even though they plan to use it as a mechanism to increase their power for future military expansion into Siberia and then into Europe. This book should make a thinking person think. The sleeping giant is still asleep!

I have read the book and have heard from its authors. I find alot of information that I know is going on. I am a designer for the military and I know that we are in trouble. America (billy & co.) has taken our national security and given it away for money. The pictures are not fakes, and they show that money is worth more than lives. It is sad....Y2K or not Taiwan will be first, then the regime will try and claim more, and can do so after christmas 99 when the watercraft is delivered to china from russia. Funny thing is: how can bill & co spend money when there is no where to spend it. PLEASE BOYCOTT ALL CHINESE GOODS, SERVICES, AND PRODUCTS!!!!

In, 'Red Dragon Rising; Communist China's Military Threat to America', authors Timperlake and Triplett detail and delineate the threat posed to world peace and security by the People's Republic of China through their military apparatus, the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

The authors start with the background and examination of the events surrounding the bloody events of June 1989 in TianAnMen Square, where Chinese Communist hard-liners retook control of not just the Square adjoining the Gate of Heavenly Peace, but all of the People's Republic of China. The use of PLA troops against the Chinese people signaled the beginning of a new era of repression and swept away any hope for reform of the deeply corrupt Chinese governmental system.

Red Dragon Rising indicts the Clinton Administration as coconspirators in the development of the People's Liberation Army into one of the greatest security threats posed not just to the United States of America, but the entire population of the planet. Red Dragon Rising reveals: * how secret Oval Office meeting with senior PLA generals rehabilitated the murderers of Chinese young people at TianAnMen and discouraged the democracy movement in China; * how the failure to support America's democratic allies in Asia make war in the region more likely; * how the cover-up of Chinese arms sales to terrorist countries puts the entire world at risk; * how the presidentially authorized release of six hundred American supercomputers at the beginning of the 1996 presidential campaign led directly to an unprecedented threat to America.

Certainly, Red Dragon Rising will bring calls of 'China-bashing' and 'Commie-bashing' and the authors will be labeled as 'McCarthy-ite' from the PRC and it's supporters; but that is a smoke screen. Red Dragon Rising is not a conspiracy theory where the core information was found in a pumpkin patch or part of an underground list of suspected agents. Red Dragon Rising's voluminous notes and references, plus the authors' more than fifty years in national security affairs, will dispel any doubts on the background and conclusions reached in this important book.

Red Dragon Rising is a must-read book for anyone interested in national and international security issues or wishes to see a true picture of the People's Republic of China. It is dedicated: "To the Fallen, Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989"

This work is so alarming and so disturbing that the only consolation is hoping wide spread dissemination of its revelations equally upsets the imperial Chinese leadership.

Learning the lucid facts of just how ruthless and dangerous the military threat of the totalitarian Chinese Communist government is to world safety and American security is both sobering and enraging. The documented appeasement of China by the Clinton administration and their sell-out of US national interest for short-term profit and their own political gains are unforgivable.

The book's only real weakness is lack of presenting an overview of Chinese history and an estimate of China's geo-political grand strategy, which would have provided a good background and a stronger closing. Hopefully this will be soon adressed in future works.

America and the free-world should read this book to prepare for a hostile leadership already targeting us as it's number one enemy and rival.

In their first book, 'Year of the Rat,' the authors uncovered the ugly truth about illegal Chinese campaign contributions to Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Now in "Red Dragon Rising' they have exposed in frightening and pain-staking detail how the Clinton-Gore administration has helped Communist China achieve its military ambitions. By putting dollars before national security, they have assisted an emerging superpower in becoming a future deadly threat to our national security. To hell with the 'Lewinsky Affair,' China-Gate is the most outrageous scandal of this 'the most ethical administration in history.'

THIS BOOK CONTAINS AN EYE OPENING OVERVIEW OF OUR PRESIDENTS FAILURE TO UPHOLD AMERICAN VALUES AND HIS FAILURE TO PROTECT THE UNITED STATES AGAINST FOREIGN AGGRESSION. THE CONTEXT IS KEPT SIMPLE SO THAT EVERY AMERICAN WHO READS IT MAY GET A GRASP ON THE IMPENDING CRISIS THAT AMERICA WILL FACE IN THE FUTURE. THE PRESIDENCY AND AMERICA HAS BEEN SOLD OUT TO A FOREIGN COMMUNIST REGIME FOR PERSONAL GAIN. THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK IS AN EYE OPENER FOR ALL AMERICANS. IMPEACHMENT OF A PRESIDENT IS OUR DUTIFUL RIGHT IF THE PRESIDENT SO ENDANGERS OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND OUR HISTORICAL VALUES OF FREEDOM. BOTH OF WHICH HAVE BEEN COMPRIMISED. LET THIS BOOK OPEN OUR EYES TO A NEW FUTURE OF COLD WAR WHICH HAS ALREADY BEGUN.