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Book Review: The Chinese Information War
benrothke writes "It's said that truth is stranger than fiction, as fiction has to make sense. Had The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests been written as a spy thriller, it would have been a fascinating novel of international intrigue. But the book is far from a novel. It's a dense, well-researched overview of China's cold-war like cyberwar tactics against the US to regain its past historical glory and world dominance." Read below for the rest of Ben's review.
The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests
author
Dennis Poindexter
pages
192
publisher
McFarland
rating
9/10
reviewer
Ben Rothke
ISBN
978-0786472710
summary
Fascinating overview on the cyberwar with China
Author Dennis Poindexter shows that Chinese espionage isn't made up of lone wolves. Rather it's under the directive and long-term planning of the Chinese government and military.
Many people growing up in the 1940's expressed the sentiment "we were poor, but didn't know it". Poindexter argues that we are in a cyberwar with China; but most people are oblivious to it.
Rather than being a polemic against China, Poindexter backs it up with extensive factual research. By the end of the book, the sheer number of guilty pleas by Chinese nationals alone should be a staggering wake-up call.
In February, Mandiant released their groundbreaking report APT1: Exposing One of Chinas Cyber Espionage Units, which focused on APT1, the most prolific Chinese cyber-espionage group that Mandiant tracked. APT1 has conducted a cyber-espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006. The report has evidence linking them to China's 2nd Bureau of the People's Liberation Army.
China is using this cyberwar to their supreme advantage and as Poindexter writes on page 1: until we see ourselves in a war, we can't fight it effectively. Part of the challenge is that cyberwar does not fit the definition of what a war generally is because the Chinese have changed the nature of war to carry it out.
Poindexter makes his case in fewer than 200 pages and provides ample references in his detailed research; including many details, court cases and guilty verdicts of how the Chinese government and military work hand in hand to achieve their goals.
The book should of interest to everyone given the implications of what China is doing. If you are planning to set up shop in China, be it R&D, manufacturing or the like, read this book. If you have intellectual property or confidential data in China, read this book as you need to know the risks before you lose control of your data there.
Huawei Technologies, a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and services firm; now the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world is detailed in the book. Poindexter details a few cases involving Huawei and writes that if Huawei isn't linked to Chinese intelligence, then it's the most persecuted company in the history of international trade.
The book details in chapter 2 the intersection between cyberwar and economic war. He writes that any foreign business in China is required to share detailed design documents with the Chinese government in order to do business there. For many firms, the short-term economic incentives blind them to the long-term risks of losing control of their data. The book notes that in the Cold War with Russia, the US understood what Russia was trying to do. The US therefore cut back trade with Russia, particularly in areas where there might be some military benefit to them. But the US isn't doing that with China.
Chapter 2 closes with a damming indictment where Poindexter writes that the Chinese steal our technology, rack up sales back to us, counterfeit our goods, take our jobs and own a good deal of our debt. The problem he notes is that too many people focus solely on the economic relations between the US and China, and ignore the underpinnings of large-scale cyber-espionage.
Chapter 6 details that the Chinese have developed a long-term approach. They have deployed numerous sleepers who often wait decades and only then work slowly and stealthily. A point Poindexter makes many times is that the Chinese think big, but move slow.
Chapter 7 is appropriately titles The New Cold War. In order to win this war, Poindexter suggest some radical steps to stop it. He notes that the US needs to limit trade with China to items we can't get anywhere else. He says not to supply China with the rope that will be used to hang the US on.
He writes that the Federal Government has to deal with the issue seriously and quickly, to protect its telecommunications interests so that China isn't able to cut it all off one day. He also notes that national security must no longer take a backseat to price and cheap labor.
Poindexter writes that the US Government must take a long-view to the solution and he writes that it will take 10 years to build up the type of forces that that would be needed to counter the business and government spying that the Chinese are doing.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is the archetypal wake-up call book. Poindexter has written his version of Silent Spring,but it's unlikely that any action will be taken. As the book notes, the Chinese are so blatantly open about their goals via cyber-espionage, and their denials of it so arrogant, that business as usual simply carries on.
The Chinese portray themselves as benevolent benefactors, much like the Kanamits in To Serve Man. Just as the benevolence of the Kanamits was a façade, so too is what is going on with the cold cyberwar with China.
The book is an eye-opening expose that details the working of the Chinese government and notes that for most of history, China was the world's dominating force. The Chinese have made it their goal to regain that dominance.
The book states what the Chinese are trying to accomplish and lays out the cold facts. Will there be a response to this fascinating book? Will Washington take action? Will they limit Chinese access to strategic US data? Given Washington is operating in a mode of sequestration, the answer should be obvious.
The message detailed in The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests should be a wake-up call. But given that it is currently ranked #266,881 on Amazon, it seems as if most of America is sleeping through this threat.
Reviewed by Ben Rothke
You can purchase The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews (sci-fi included) -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.
Many people growing up in the 1940's expressed the sentiment "we were poor, but didn't know it". Poindexter argues that we are in a cyberwar with China; but most people are oblivious to it.
Rather than being a polemic against China, Poindexter backs it up with extensive factual research. By the end of the book, the sheer number of guilty pleas by Chinese nationals alone should be a staggering wake-up call.
In February, Mandiant released their groundbreaking report APT1: Exposing One of Chinas Cyber Espionage Units, which focused on APT1, the most prolific Chinese cyber-espionage group that Mandiant tracked. APT1 has conducted a cyber-espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006. The report has evidence linking them to China's 2nd Bureau of the People's Liberation Army.
China is using this cyberwar to their supreme advantage and as Poindexter writes on page 1: until we see ourselves in a war, we can't fight it effectively. Part of the challenge is that cyberwar does not fit the definition of what a war generally is because the Chinese have changed the nature of war to carry it out.
Poindexter makes his case in fewer than 200 pages and provides ample references in his detailed research; including many details, court cases and guilty verdicts of how the Chinese government and military work hand in hand to achieve their goals.
The book should of interest to everyone given the implications of what China is doing. If you are planning to set up shop in China, be it R&D, manufacturing or the like, read this book. If you have intellectual property or confidential data in China, read this book as you need to know the risks before you lose control of your data there.
Huawei Technologies, a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and services firm; now the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world is detailed in the book. Poindexter details a few cases involving Huawei and writes that if Huawei isn't linked to Chinese intelligence, then it's the most persecuted company in the history of international trade.
The book details in chapter 2 the intersection between cyberwar and economic war. He writes that any foreign business in China is required to share detailed design documents with the Chinese government in order to do business there. For many firms, the short-term economic incentives blind them to the long-term risks of losing control of their data. The book notes that in the Cold War with Russia, the US understood what Russia was trying to do. The US therefore cut back trade with Russia, particularly in areas where there might be some military benefit to them. But the US isn't doing that with China.
Chapter 2 closes with a damming indictment where Poindexter writes that the Chinese steal our technology, rack up sales back to us, counterfeit our goods, take our jobs and own a good deal of our debt. The problem he notes is that too many people focus solely on the economic relations between the US and China, and ignore the underpinnings of large-scale cyber-espionage.
Chapter 6 details that the Chinese have developed a long-term approach. They have deployed numerous sleepers who often wait decades and only then work slowly and stealthily. A point Poindexter makes many times is that the Chinese think big, but move slow.
Chapter 7 is appropriately titles The New Cold War. In order to win this war, Poindexter suggest some radical steps to stop it. He notes that the US needs to limit trade with China to items we can't get anywhere else. He says not to supply China with the rope that will be used to hang the US on.
He writes that the Federal Government has to deal with the issue seriously and quickly, to protect its telecommunications interests so that China isn't able to cut it all off one day. He also notes that national security must no longer take a backseat to price and cheap labor.
Poindexter writes that the US Government must take a long-view to the solution and he writes that it will take 10 years to build up the type of forces that that would be needed to counter the business and government spying that the Chinese are doing.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is the archetypal wake-up call book. Poindexter has written his version of Silent Spring,but it's unlikely that any action will be taken. As the book notes, the Chinese are so blatantly open about their goals via cyber-espionage, and their denials of it so arrogant, that business as usual simply carries on.
The Chinese portray themselves as benevolent benefactors, much like the Kanamits in To Serve Man. Just as the benevolence of the Kanamits was a façade, so too is what is going on with the cold cyberwar with China.
The book is an eye-opening expose that details the working of the Chinese government and notes that for most of history, China was the world's dominating force. The Chinese have made it their goal to regain that dominance.
The book states what the Chinese are trying to accomplish and lays out the cold facts. Will there be a response to this fascinating book? Will Washington take action? Will they limit Chinese access to strategic US data? Given Washington is operating in a mode of sequestration, the answer should be obvious.
The message detailed in The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests should be a wake-up call. But given that it is currently ranked #266,881 on Amazon, it seems as if most of America is sleeping through this threat.
Reviewed by Ben Rothke
You can purchase The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews (sci-fi included) -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.
problem is, what the fuck is that good for if you're not manufacturing anything.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
...of meeting the Chinese (or whomever) on this battlefield, but the sad fact is that we are not. Oh, we're death on "the threat" to RIAA and MPIAA interests, and we damned sure are doing what it takes to smoke out "teh terrorists" (all the while laying waste to our citizens liberties), but as a match for concerted, state-run effort the one we face with China, we're all but unarmed.
It's a dense, well-researched overview of China's cold-war like cyberwar tactics against the US to regain its past historical glory and world dominance.
How do I know how much of it I should believe? (Other than the fact that I read it on the internet.)
Yeah, you'd have to be delusional to think that countries play nice with each other, but seriously, how do we know how much of this is fact and how much is fearmongering (or cashing in on existing fears), or politics?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Nice book Poindexter
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beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master
I wish we had a well-researched overview of the NSA's cold-war like cyberwar tactics against the US to regain its past historical glory and world dominance.
what's the big deal?
i'm old enough to remember the nuclear cold war and as soon as it finished the french and other allies started spying on us commercially
everyone spies on each other. you do it even if you don't plan on going to war. you do it so that when you negotiate you know how much to give and what to ask for.
some of you naive kids need to grow up
Are we talking about China?
He notes that the US needs to limit trade with China to items we can't get anywhere else. He says not to supply China with the rope that will be used to hang the US on.
1. Not bloody likely.
2. Too fucking late.
China plans for the long term
Well, duh.
People who have been looking at China for the past two decades have been screaming this at the top of their lungs, only for this concept to fall on deaf ears. The US has forgotten about the lesson of Samuel Slater, and China has picked it up and they are schooling us.
Where the manufacturing goes, so does the science and engineering. And that's what the Chinese want. They want what we had and we're giving it to them hand-over-fist for short term profits.
The "problem" is cultural, and it is entirely self-made.
And it ain't gonna get fixed until US businesses start looking at the long term, which has about the same chance of happening as a snowball's chance in Hell.
--
BMO
Blah blah blah, evil red China is hacking us. You guys do it to us too, all the time, according to your new hero Snowden, but it's all good if your team does it, right? Now watch as you guys will try your damnedest to split hairs and somehow say that China's hacking was somehow worse or that the US hacking is justified for national security. That just cements the hypocrisy.
US would have already be fucked. That fact is that Windows dominates in China and the majority of Chinese backbones are bought from US companies such as Cisco. And everybody would assume the backdoors have already been planted.
Rest assured, only US is capable of building PRISM system or stuxnet virus. As a Chinese I see no difference in two regimes, US and China. They are both controlled by special interest groups. Neither of those countries are mine. As average people we are just given crumbs of the big pie. Only difference is that Americans got enough crumbs, not because the special interest group is more benevolent, just because they can afford less people here.
Don't give the shit like communist. China is not a communist or socialist country and it never is. Now it is pure capitalist like US, the worst kind of capitalism in the world.
There is no such thing as "intelectual property" in the 21st century America.
Deal. With. It.
As compared to spying on our own citizens?
Would be interesting to know....
Keep pointing at them and telling how they are spying on us. That way it keeps the attention away how we are also spying on us and them.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
We must spy everyone because they spy us! Is just wrong when others do it.
[Dr. Evil Voice] Yeeaaaa riiiiiiight.
Remember kids, if WE do it it's to fight terrorism. When someone ELSE does it they are bad, bad people.
Beware the phony posts attacking this book by the Water Army....it has started already
Let's point fingers at everyone else and ignore the fact that the US is still the worst of them all, combined.
Well if you are going to do a drive by accusations with no factsthen let me try also. Want to know the worst country for this stuff: Uruguay!
Did you just wake up from a coma? Snowden just did another interview, more details are coming.
Amazing that with all the so-called spy power, tools, and intercepts.that they can’t find Snowden. Something is amiss.
Is the review longer than the book?
Well if you are going to do a drive by accusations with no factsthen let me try also. Want to know the worst country for this stuff: Uruguay!
No, Paraguay (I get them confused too).
Let's point fingers at everyone else and ignore the fact that the US is still the worst of them all, combined.
As always, the most inflammatory comments come from AC's. If you're going to make an argument, at least be prepared to defend it. There are too many people here by the name of "Anonymous Coward" to do that.
Don't be naive, sure they know where he is, they just can't do shit about it since he's not in one of those kiss-ass country.
A new book has been released with rave reviews. It's called:
"The American Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to Chinese Interests"
Sounds like a good read!
Snowden just did another interview, more details are coming.
Notice all the people here defending the NSA from Snowden's disclosures? Me neither. If China isn't doing this to its own citizens then they probably have a crash program to catch up. Is getting screwed by our own government in one respect a good reason to let China screw us in other respects?
You mean they are different places? :)
Speaking of south america...check out this article today on msnbc: Why the World Cup can't save Brazil's tourism industry
http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/why-world-cup-cant-save-brazils-tourism-industry-6C10344869
Let's point fingers at everyone else and ignore the fact that the US is still the worst of them all, combined.
As always, the most inflammatory comments come from AC's. If you're going to make an argument, at least be prepared to defend it. There are too many people here by the name of "Anonymous Coward" to do that.
LOL yeah let's "argue" about it by attacking the poster instead of the actual point, because that is just so cool.
Pathetic.
like the US hasnt been doing to all its allies/enemies for years.
Snowden just did another interview, more details are coming.
Notice all the people here defending the NSA from Snowden's disclosures? Me neither. If China isn't doing this to its own citizens then they probably have a crash program to catch up. Is getting screwed by our own government in one respect a good reason to let China screw us in other respects?
You missed the point, The difference here is China never pretended to be some FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOM (tm) fighter running around telling people how to run things, but kept quiet when "friends" like the Saudi's does the exact same thing.
If everyone already knows you're a slut infested with dozens of STDs, why even bother pretending to be an innocent virgin, what's the fucking point?
You missed the point, The difference here is China never pretended to be some FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOM (tm) fighter ...
It's ok for China to oppress its own citizens because they never claimed they don't? According to your logic, it's ok to do anything as long as you're not a hypocrite about it.
How is this inflammatory? It's probably true. Oh - yeah - I forgot that Slashdot is dominated by arrogant, brainwashed Americans.
More AC(s). 'nuf said.
People post as Anon for similar reasons as to why people protest while wearing masks in corrupt police states.
If you have something to say, which is a valid, but very unpopular opinion, sure, you can post with your real handle, but then you'll just get bad karma on here by the horribly biased masses.
Maybe, just maybe, people post as AC because they recognize this. It does not mean their opinion is any less valid, although it may mean that they realize their opinion is likely to be unpopular.
See, here is your problem, you Americans never seem to understand one simple concept: "Mind your own business".
There are religious people who oppose eating beef, they don't show up outside your house screaming about "FREEDOM TO THE BULLS" when you eat a steak.
What is "ok" or not for others is up to others to decide, for their own people to judge and for their own people to deal with, it's not up to you to decide, sure you can do it in your head and talk about it in parties, but when you get all worked up about it and scream "OH MY GOD HOW EVIL" but at the same time ignore your own problems, you just sound like some delusional hypocritical idiot with no concept of boundaries and respect.
Study the world map before opening your mouths, there are other people on earth too.
This book is $38(!!!) on amazon? Huh? 200 page paperback?
More crying on nicknames from someone who can't make proper counter arguments.
Are you suggesting using a different nick will change the facts? What are you an idiot?
See, here is your problem, you Americans never seem to understand one simple concept: "Mind your own business".
By your own reasoning you don't know how to mind your own business, since (I infer from your post) you're not an American, and you're posting on an American website where American politics are frequently discussed. Unless you're Chinese, then by your own reasoning you really don't know how to mind your own business, since this is about Chinese and American issues.
Post back when you've resolved that hypocrisy.
Your "rebuttal" didn't address anything about what I wrote. Instead you just jumped into a rant. Did you have trouble countering my point?
More crying on nicknames from someone who can't make proper counter arguments. ... What are you an idiot?
I'm impressed by the way you stick to "proper counter arguments".
People post as Anon for similar reasons as to why people protest while wearing masks in corrupt police states.
They're afraid that jackbooted Slashdotters will break into their homes at night and drag them off, never to be seen again?
If you have something to say, which is a valid, but very unpopular opinion, sure, you can post with your real handle, but then you'll just get bad karma
Oooh, bad karma. Is that anything like the gulag?
I honestly don't know how much courage I have to stand up to jackbooted thugs in a corrupt police state, but I'm incredibly intrepid when it comes to posting unpopular arguments on Slashdot using my "real" name (full disclosure: ebno-10db is not the name on my birth certificate). I even do it at the risk of my life giving karma!
LOL now that is just retarded.
You failed to remember this "Mind your own business" was referring to the exact moment when you used "So it is ok for Country-X to do Y then?" as an argument, which is a typical derail and distract tactic Americans use when they don't want to face their own problems.
So when you pull that crap and someone THEN say: "Judge yourself before you judge others", that is not them minding your businesses, that is someone telling you to stop being an idiot. What you just pulled here is the equivalent of speaking too loud in a library, then someone tells you to keep quite, and you respond with "But you're speaking too."
Seriously, why even bother with what others countries are doing when your own country is doing all these creepy shit around the world.
You Americans still have no ideas how much shit you're in because all your brains can process is "OMG ALL THESE BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE, WE MUST FIX THEM, BECAUSE WE ARE FUCKING SAINTS".
You must not be aware of how the karma system works on here. Every time you get modded down, (or every few times, I'm not sure), your posts start off with one less rating point. Post enough unpopular shit, and eventually no one will ever see your posts.
There's nothing wrong with posting anon if you have a handle with good karma and don't want to destroy that.
Karma is a real thing on slashdot - we're not talking about metaphysics here.
And we are even more impressed by your dedication to "Real name discussions" by using names such as ebno-10db.
What a fucking idiot.
Karma is a real thing on slashdot - we're not talking about metaphysics here.
This is comical. I admire people like they guy who stood in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square, but somehow I don't feel like I'm in his league if I risk my Slashdot karma.
P.S. I'm fully aware of how the karma system here works, but some some reason I'm less afraid of it than truncheons and bullets (let alone tanks!).
I see the AC is still in rant mode, using such elegant counterarguments as "that is just retarded". Hint: the first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging.
In the case of NAFTA, jobs would go to Mexico, a nation that is friendly to the United States. That is the problem with the debate over 'free trade'. It focuses on if jobs should leave America, not which nation those jobs are going to, and if it is friendly with the United States. As I recall, Bill Clinton's reason for giving China Most Favored Nation, was that trade with China, would export American culture and ideas to China. The effectiveness of that remains to be seen.
About 40 years ago, sitting US President Richard Nixon went to China. The plane landed in Shanghai China and there Nixon did some business regarding the Shanghai Accords. The Shanghai accords were a written document that organized or stabilized the enormous gap between Communist Chinese political ideology and American political ideology.
I highly recommend John Adam's opera Nixon In China. Fragments are available on Youtube and Wikipedia has a very helpful series of entries that describe the historical visit to China.
The opera reveals a series of cultural mysteries: The oblique standoffish ideas of Kissinger, the amazing cultural impact of the wife of Chairman Mao, the feelings and warmth that developed as Pat Nixon visited a poultry farm, the frankness of Nixon and Mao realizing their own limitations as leaders.
What is happening today with theft of secrets, electronic intrusion, removal of manufacturing to China needs to be balanced with the realization that the white hot ideological differences between the US and communist countries has developed into a new oblique engagement where the line of contact has become a huge blur.
If anything, the joke is on both parties. Coming up on both the American and Chinese societies is a threat that both societies are equally completely unable to defend against, namely global warming.
When people watch a purported spy movie where a lone hacker can hack the computers of a spy-agency and blow-up the heating - and not laugh out loud - then I suppose they would have no problem swallowing this heap of cyber-bullshit and no mentions of Visual Basic in the entire review ..
AccountKiller
As a U.S. American reaping the benefits of the IT outsourcing industry in China, I always have to remind myself that the U.S. also sanctions cyberwarfare against China and other nations.
-- Jimtown Kelly
Yet another 'war'. And once again the evil ghost of Communism is raised from its grave. Some people just can't let go of the past, it seems.
I'm not denying that China spies on more or less everybody else; I just don't think their spying is any different from what the US, Israel, UK, ... do, and the motivation is in all cases the same: they want to get ahead in the game. It is a very naughty thing to do, but the again, keeping secrets is not a squeeky clean thing either, when you think of it. It's part of life, at the end of the day, and I think this book is just one more, rather sad attempt at spinning money on people's fear of the unknown.
And the first rule to bitch about AC is to use a real name, what is your point?
...and you've already surrendered everything. The Wu Mao Dang are eating what's left on your plate while you check Facebook.
There's nothing to address in what you wrote, you ignored AC's original argument and then try and rebuke him for not countering yours. The USA does the same stuff as China, the difference is China doesn't pretend that it's for freedom. Both are bad but at least the Chinese don't lie to themselves.
This guy is pushing an agenda that is likely linked to lucrative government contracting. Check out his linkedin profile: Former Member President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee Latest Book: The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests (McFarland Publishing) on sale March 29, 2013 Former faculty: Defense Security Institute, VCU, NOVA and Federal Examination Council of the Federal Reserve Board Former Staff Consultant, U.S. House of Representatives Director of Information Assurance, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Presented 10 international papers, 5 at Canadian Security Symposia, Ottawa 10 years Industrial Security. Inspected government contractor sites and taught first Industrial Computer Security Course for 9 years . 7 years Security Engineering, Intelligence Community
Too many people hope that the Chinese will be like the Russians were in the 50's - The Russians were allowed to purchase IBM 360 computers (remember those!) and years later they were 'exporting' their computer to their dependant satelites - complete with a thumb print on the circuit board where the factory worker held the board while spraying varnish, did not have quite the right electrical protection in certain areas.
China has been insinuating themself into the manufacturing stream for many years - USA outsourced to India and then India outourced to China - now the path is direct. And what the Chinese don't get by providing cheap manufacturing labor they listen in on or directly target technology.
Which was first (chicken or egg??) the government's desire to know strategic and tactical plans of other nations or industry desire to be 'in the know' of technology developments?
This is another area where 'publicly available' information is not the complete picture but the rest is not readibly available or open for discussion.
The only time in history China achieved something close to world Dominance, was when it was part of the Mongolian Empire.
It might have been a Dominant trading partner at some point, and the dynasties certainly had a large regional impact, but China has never been a world-dominating power. In history, you would count Rome, Macedonia, Kartoum, Germany, Ottoman empire, and a few others, but China was not one of them.
I am not belittling China in any way, but China is currently in a more dominating position than it has ever been.
The bigots were right all along.
I looked at the author's bio, but it did not say anything about him spending any time in China. Does anybody know his in country experience?
more interesting. details are divulged almost daily.