Plan Red

Préface

FOREWORD to *PLAN RED: China's Project to Destroy America *by Gordon G. Chang

China, the International Arsonist

China’s plan to destroy America first contemplates the destruction of the rest of the world. 

Since 2022, Xi Jinping has set a match to three continents. The Chinese leader green-lighted Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is supporting Russia’s war with lethal and other assistance. In North Africa, Beijing, in conjunction with partner Moscow, has been fueling insurgencies that resemble wars.

In the Middle East, China is backing Iran’s attacks, through terrorist proxies, on Israel and international shipping. “The Middle East, thanks in no small measure to Beijing, is soaked with blood,” Jonathan Bass of energy consultant InfraGlobal told me.

What is the most ambitious aggressor in history doing? Xi Jinping, who reveres Mao Zedong, is taking two pages from his hero’s “peasant movement” playbook.

First, Mao in 1949 prevailed over his enemy, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government, in the Chinese Civil War by “encircling the cities from the countryside.”

“While in the countryside, the Communist Party mobilized the masses of peasants and established base areas, thus opening up a road of encircling the cities from the rural areas and seizing political power by armed force,” states China.org.cn, a Chinese propaganda site, in An Illustrated History of the Communist Party of China.

Ukraine, North Africa, and Israel, as Xi’s Beijing sees it, are parts of the “countryside” today.

So, what is the “city”?

The Communist Party’s main enemy is the United States of America. In short, Xi believes he must disrupt much of the world to get at America.

The second page of Mao’s playbook involves the fomenting of “chaos.” “Great chaos under heaven achieves great order under heaven,” wrote Mao in 1966 to his wife, Jiang Qing, referring to the eventual establishment of worldwide Chinese rule.

Xi Jinping is assaulting the current order, and the razing of societies is just an intermediate step on his road to the complete control of humanity.

Isn’t that goal impossible to achieve?

Whether it is or not, Xi is making progress. We can see his initial successes in today’s wars.

Many believe that these conflicts are merely “regional.”

Today, however, there is no such thing as a “regional” conflict. Because superpower China is fighting either directly or indirectly around the world, every conflict has global implications. China’s leader, in short, is an arsonist, setting fires and fueling attacks on civilization with proxy wars.

In the 1930s, separate wars merged into what we now call World War II. The same thing can happen this time, especially because the United States and its partners do not realize the significance of what is occurring and are taking inadequate measures to confront Beijing.

Xi has not been trying hard to hide what he intends to accomplish, talking all the time about the “Chinese dream.”

The “Chinese dream,” by itself, is supposed to sound benign, but in context it is ominous. Xi has been working to impose on today’s world the vision of China’s emperors, who believed they had both the right and the obligation to rule what they called tianxia, “all under heaven.” In short, they considered themselves the world’s only legitimate rulers.

This means Xi does not believe that the United States should be considered a sovereign state.

Xi Jinping’s reliance on proxies is a sly strategy to slowly bleed America, but it also betrays a weakness. It’s clear, at least at this moment, that he is unable to confront the United States directly. His regime, after all, is beset by worsening crises at home.

The core crisis involves the Chinese economy, which is not growing robustly as Beijing claims. It may even be contracting, but in any event, it is not expanding rapidly enough to service debt that the regime and its instrumentalities have incurred, especially since the 2008 global downturn. In substance, China is now experiencing a long-delayed crisis.

The other fundamental weakness is demography. The number of people in China peaked in 2021, and the country could lose two-thirds of its population this century.

The Chinese people believe that the Communist Party, caught in the grip of Xi’s reversion to totalitarianism, has no solutions to modern-day problems. Many in China have already given up, either dropping out of society or fleeing for the United States and other countries.

Xi Jinping, therefore, must be seeing a closing window of opportunity to accomplish his goals, which means he must be thinking that he has to move soon against the United States. After all, he cannot achieve his dream without first taking down that great democracy.

China’s leader, I believe, realizes that he must make his crisis America’s crisis. That is why his regime has a plan to destroy America.

Gordon G. Chang

May 2024

Auteur

GORDON G. CHANG (BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY) lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong for almost two decades. He is a columnist at Newsweek, a regular contributor to The **Hill, and writes for NEWSMAX. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Conservative, Commentary, Barron’s, *and *The **Daily Beast. He is the author of China Is Going to War, The Great U.S.-China Tech War, Losing South Korea, Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, *and *The Coming Collapse of China.

The author lives & works in the New York City metro area.

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Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission and the president of the People's Republic of China,  wants to shape the world in China’s image,  and in his conception of the world there is no place for the United States or even the current international order. 

Noted China analyst Gordon G. Chang warns that Xi Jinping believes he must destroy America to accomplish his objectives. And that Xi already has a plan to do it!

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