Foreign policy expert reveals 2 key offensive strategies US must 'seize' on to win 'Cold War' with China

The United States is presently embroiled successful a Cold War with China according to adept Michael Sobolik, who precocious told Fox News Digital that the lone way towards triumph involves going connected discourtesy successful 2 cardinal areas. 

Sobolik, a Senior Fellow successful Indo-Pacific Studies astatine the American Foreign Policy Council, released his caller publication "Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance" connected Tuesday, wherever helium outlines respective ways that the United States indispensable instrumentality the combat to China successful its evolving acold war. 

"Chapter six of my publication is 1 of the astir important portions of the publication from a competitory position due to the fact that it zeroes successful not connected however to vie against Beijing astir the world, but however to exploit the CCP's weaknesses wrong of China conscionable arsenic the CCP has infiltrated America successful truthful galore ways," Sobolik told Fox News Digital. 

"We request to instrumentality the contention to them connected their location court, and determination are astatine slightest 2 antithetic ways we tin bash this."

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Michaele Sobolik, Xi Jinping (Getty Images)

The archetypal measurement that should beryllium taken, Sobolik explains, is cracking down connected Chinese commercialized routes moving done the occidental portion of Xinjiang wherever an alleged genocide is being committed against the Uyghur population.

"The Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide successful its ain state successful portion due to the fact that they privation implicit and full power of that geographic portion for the intent of making definite commercialized on those Belt and Road corridors flows reliably and securely," Sobolik explained. "If you person to perpetrate genocide for your overseas argumentation to relation properly, that is simply a weakness. That is not a motion of strength. That is simply a motion of weakness and fearfulness and this implicates American argumentation due to the fact that a batch of the commercialized that is moving done Xinjiang and is leaving China and going to galore different countries successful the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and Europe."

"A batch of that commercialized is being conducted successful US dollar transactions. After September 11th, 2001, the United States recognized it wasn't conscionable capable to spell aft the terrorists themselves," Sobolik continued. "You besides had to spell aft the fiscal networks down the violent cells and we person truly beardown laws connected the books that let the US authorities to unopen disconnected terrorists from the planetary fiscal system. 

"One of the large argumentation proponents successful my publication is if immoderate federation is committing genocide for the act, either principally oregon partially to payment economically from committing genocide, and if that economical payment comes from US dollars, past the United States needs to chopped those actors disconnected from the planetary fiscal system," helium added.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping adjusts his overgarment arsenic helium stands to sing the nationalist anthem astatine the closing league of the National People's Congress held astatine the Great Hall of the People successful Beijing, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Sobolik told Fox News Digital that the United States tin springiness China 2 choices by allowing it to usage the U.S. dollar oregon perpetrate genocide "but you can’t bash both."

"If the United States were to instrumentality a argumentation similar that, we would efficaciously chopped disconnected fractional of the Belt and Road commercialized routes successful Eurasia," Sobolik said. "It would beryllium an tremendous strategical determination for the United States and it would beryllium the astir punitive effect from Washington to China for committing genocide ever and I deliberation it is thing that policymakers request to see cautiously and seriously."

The 2nd "competitive step" the United States tin instrumentality to spell connected the discourtesy with China, according to Sobolik, is successful the "realm of information" particularly erstwhile it comes to the coronavirus.

"The crushed COVID became a pandemic successful the archetypal spot is due to the fact that the Chinese Communist Party cared much astir stopping accusation astir the microorganism than they cared astir stopping the microorganism itself and past Americans died," Sobolik said. "The Chinese Communist Party tried to screen up the beingness of COVID again, due to the fact that they are an authoritarian authorities and authoritarian regimes are acrophobic of the information and transparency. Free code wrong of China, transparency wrong China is not conscionable a quality rights issue, it's besides a nationalist information contented due to the fact that Americans died, countless Americans died from COVID."

In his book, Sobolik writes extensively astir however it is "high time" to propulsion backmost connected China’s "Great Firewall" of censoring escaped code and accusation and told Fox News Digital that the U.S. authorities is not doing capable connected that front. 

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Michael Sobolik, writer of Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance  (Fox News Digital)

"This hesitancy to spell aft 1 of the biggest weaknesses the CCP has is endemic yet again of this misunderstanding of the satellite we unrecorded in," Sobolik argued. "This is not a affirmative sum satellite wherever we tin cooperate and vie with China, astatine the aforesaid time, the Chinese Communist Party is waging a Cold War that they mean to win. If we privation to triumph it, we indispensable place the biggest weaknesses that our adversary has and their fearfulness of transparency is 1 of their biggest."

"If they request full power of sermon wrong of a monolithic state arsenic large arsenic China, let's marque it harder for them to execute that. Let's marque it much costly for them. To execute that, we request to enactment them connected their backmost heels and unit them to respond to us."

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Sobolik told Fox News Digital that 1 of the reasons helium wrote Countering China's Great Game successful the archetypal spot was due to the fact that American policymakers "need to spell connected the violative and make problems" for China and "seize the initiative" alternatively than simply playing defense.

"Good defence mightiness triumph NBA hoops championships, but bully defence is the bare minimum," Sobolik said. "It's bully housekeeping. You don't get a golden prima for taking attraction of your ain homeland. You get a golden prima for going retired and opposing authoritarian regimes. Cold wars are won by seizing the inaugural and going connected the offensive."