{"id":13357,"date":"2007-06-22T23:04:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T06:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/22\/bill-gertz-on-the-china-threat-bill-gertz\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T06:04:48","slug":"bill-gertz-on-the-china-threat-bill-gertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/bill-gertz-on-the-china-threat-bill-gertz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gertz on The China Threat – Bill Gertz"},"content":{"rendered":"
From China Confidential blog:<\/p>\n
EDITOR’S NOTE: The debating society Intelligence Squared<\/a> US held a session last month on the motion: “Beware the dragon: A booming China spells trouble for America.” Bill Gertz<\/a> spoke for the motion. Excerpts of his remarks follow. Gertz, 55, is a defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times and the author of five books, including “The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America,” (Regnery) which was published in November 2000.<\/p>\n
I’ve identified what I call 11 sources of trouble for the United States from China. The first is China’s military buildup. Number two is the danger of war over Taiwan. Number three is expansionism over energy resources. Number four is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles. Number five is massive intelligence operations to steal US secrets and technology. Number six is influence operations and so-called money diplomacy. Number seven is unfair trade practices, including currency valuation manipulation. Number eight, intellectual property theft. Number nine, human rights abuses. Number 10, religious repression. And number 11, environmental degradation and global warming. [Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From China Confidential blog: EDITOR’S NOTE: The debating society Intelligence Squared US held a session last month on the motion: “Beware the dragon: A booming China spells trouble for America.” Bill Gertz spoke for the motion. Excerpts of his remarks follow. Gertz, 55, is a defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,100],"tags":[5959,7702],"class_list":["post-13357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-politics","tag-china-threat","tag-us-relations","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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