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Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win Hardcover – January 25, 2022
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever conducted.
That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. What is wholly new, however, are the number of American elites who are eager to help the Chinese dictatorship in its quest for global hegemony.
Presidential families, Silicon Valley gurus, Wall Street high rollers, Ivy League universities, even professional athletes—all willing to sacrifice American strength and security on the altar of personal enrichment.
In Red-Handed, six-time New York Times bestselling investigator Peter Schweizer presents his most alarming findings to date by revealing the secret deals wealthy Americans have cut to help China build its military, technological, and economic might. Equally as astonishing, many of these elites quietly believe the Chinese dictatorial regime is superior to American democracy.
Schweizer and his team of forensic investigators spent over a year scouring a massive trove of global corporate records and legal filings to expose the hidden transactions China’s enablers hoped would never see the light of day. And as Schweizer’s past bombshells like Profiles in Corruption, Secret Empires, and Clinton Cash all made clear, there are bad actors on both ends of the political spectrum.
Exhaustively researched, crisply told, and chilling, Red-Handed will expose the nexus of power between the Chinese government and the American elites who do its bidding.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper
- Publication dateJanuary 25, 2022
- Dimensions6 x 1.13 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100063061147
- ISBN-13978-0063061149
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Peter Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute and the former William J. Casey Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is a number one New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into eleven languages.
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- Publisher : Harper (January 25, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0063061147
- ISBN-13 : 978-0063061149
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.13 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Peter Schweizer is the author of, among other books, “Clinton Cash,” “Extortion,” “Throw Them All Out,” and “Architects of Ruin.” He has been featured throughout the media, including on “60 Minutes” and in the “New York Times.” He is the cofounder and president of the Government Accountability Institute, a team of investigative researchers and journalists committed to exposing crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
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In this work the author involves all aspects of American specialness which China has taken full advantage of to assist its regime to accomplish its geo-strategic goals at the expense of the United States (US). From it it appears American elites have sold the rope to hang and hand the US to China. The book exposes US citizens who have translated themselves and their companies’ services into lucrative operations helping Chinese firms while at the same time taking Beijing’s side in its trade dispute with undermining the US.
Although this book has no photographs, it is very well constructed, it is well organized with a table of contents for its nine chapters, along with 20 % of the book reference material, and a fine, easy to use index. After reading this most recent Schweizer piece I immediately sold all my positions of companies exposed in it and you should do the same.
This is a magnificent book, in its reporting power, its meticulous research, its simple textual brilliance and chronological narrative. RH stands “on the top” with other Schweizer contributions of the past. If all the material referenced in this book is factual, then these stories of corruption make the films “Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Distinguished Gentleman” appear as child’s play!
Schweizer outlines the double dipping of the Bidens and legislators retiring to become high paid lobbyists for China and more directly the CCP. He described how Cabinet members, diplomats and even retired military engage in the same consulting businesses that initially in the 60s sought engagement, trade and peace, but soon turned to participation in vicious subversion. For Silicon Valley technocracy, the market opportunity for sales to China’s 1.44 billion population was initially an irresistible siren call above all other considerations, and for most the profits outweighed thoughts about our national security. The Author, includes Wall Street financing of the Chinese military with investment products not accountable to our Securities Exchange Commission, including many retirement funds. He goes on to describe the Bush and Trudeau families’ close relations with Chinese officials of the CCP. Don’t forget Senator Dianne Feinstein or Senator Mitch McConnell and the Chao family of ship builders. Schwartz focuses particularly on Yale University with the massive and mostly unaccounted for Chinese donations and joint programs.
This book names names, dates and dollar amounts with a surprisingly long list of persons who’s greed forgoes their honor. He names a few not so easily seduced and a few of the good. The last chapter makes suggestions: Ban lobbying on behalf of Chinese military- and intelligence-linked companies. Ban Chinese military- and intelligence-linked companies from appearing on US stock exchanges. Ban joint research between Chinese and American universities. Ban investment in corporations with Chinese military and intelligence projects. Wall Street firms need to consistently apply Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). —- needs to include National security as well (ESGS)
I don’t know how you are going to gain truth in Media companies, now owned or financed by China. They own Hollywood too.
James Mann is the former Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and is now a scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He argues that “engagement” is essentially a strategic fraud. Clyde Prestowitz, a longtime observer and author on China matters, believes we should replace engagement with reciprocity. (However, reciprocity cannot exist when one party holds deception as the highest good while the other views truth as the guiding virtue — the Eastern mind set versus the West.
Schweizer mentions the unlikely but hopeful agreement between Ted Cruz of Texas and Chuck Schumer of NY in upholding the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and the 1966-2019 Foreign Contributions and Things of Value Act, § 30121 & 303(2). Schweizer seems to leave it to Prestowitz’s view of “reciprocity in Lou of engagement,” and our hope for further agreement between Ted Cruz (R) and Chuck Schumer (D) in closing the loopholes. In any case we must counter Beijing’s elite capture strategy.
Our present circumstance deserves remembering the words of Thomas Paine, Christmas Day 1776.
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered….What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.” Thomas Paine 1776
We must end all foreign lobbying and deficit trade. Swing the ax, and renegotiate only that which recuperates our middle class and gives meaningful employment to those who struggle. Any reengagement must rebuild US manufacturing, moral, American jobs, middle class liquidity and National security; and first of all, stop sleeping with the enemy.
This book should be required reading for everybody, especially in Washington.
Not dunking on the Chinese people.
It’s the CCP’s relentless encroachment into every aspect of our culture and the complicity of American politicians from both parties that will make you want to puke.
Well researched. Arguably the most meticulously cited book I have ever picked up.
Schweizer has his facts straight in a body of work that is unassailable.
Required reading my friends.
















