WHEN CHINA ATTACKS: A Warning to America.

• Date: 01 September 2023
• Author: Hoadley, Stephen

Author: Grant Newsham Published by: Regnery Publishing, Washington DC, 2023, 420pp, US$29.99.

The title of this book is arresting and the author's message is alarming. Critics may ask if the danger is really so direct and imminent. Newsham would reply: 'read the book!'. For he has written a forthrightly expressed, conscientiously documented and comprehensively surveyed assessment of the threats from China, mainly to the United States but also to the West in general. Behind the book stand his credentials as a colonel in the US Marine Corps and a post-retirement career of public engagement with international security issues, including think-pieces, blogs and testimony before Congressional committees. He is a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies and a frequent contributor to the Asia Times.

So, what is the China threat? Newsham argues that the threat is not just imminent: it is already manifest. The war has already begun, he asserts in his chapter on 'The Battles China is Already Fighting and We are...