At least with the Cold War, though, Americans realized we were in it!

Ira Stoll reports,

Peter Schweizer’s new book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” lays out how, as the book puts it, “elites, from Washington to Wall Street, for Silicon Valley to academe, have been coopted and are helping the regime while in some cases even bolstering China’s military and intelligence complex.”

Mr. Schweizer recommends banning lobbying on behalf of Communist Chinese military- and intelligence-linked companies, keeping such companies off American stock exchanges and passing a new law to prevent American universities and businesses from aiding Chinese military and intelligence projects.

Elbridge Colby, a Trump administration defense department official, has also written a recent book, “The Strategy of Denial,” that focuses on the China threat. He recommends a strategy for containing it that involves reducing American forces in Europe and focusing instead on bolstering the Asian nations that hem in China — Japan, Australia, the Philippines.

David P. Goldman, reviewing Mr. Colby’s book in Law & Liberty, proposes instead a trillion-dollar U.S. investment in military technology.

Better than a costly conflict would be a Cold War-style victory in which domestic and international pressure forces the collapse of a communist dictatorship. At least with the Cold War, though, Americans realized we were in it.

Read more here: https://www.nysun.com/foreign/what-might-awaken-americans-to-the-war-with/91965/ hat tip Glenn Reynolds