Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure

To learn more about tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, watch SD METRO Associate Editor Douglas Page’s interview with retired U.S. Navy Captain James Fanell and Dr. Bradely Thayer, published at sandiegometro.com. They wrote a book, Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure, writing that many U.S. presidential administrations, both Democrat and Republican, misread Beijing’s ambitions, allowing it to become what it is today, a sizable threat to the United States and its allies. Capt. Fanell is a 29-year veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was the director of intelligence and information operations of the Pacific Fleet. Dr. Thayer is a founding member of the Committee on Present Danger China. They discuss the magnitude of the risk as they see it, U.S. strengths, China’s military abilities, and what the United States and its allies will face should Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China, fall to a possible Beijing-led military assault.