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Air Dates: July 29-August 4, 2024

Over the last 25 years, while the United States fought costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the People’s Republic of China has been expanding its influence, its economic relationships, and even the reach of it’s military.  Michael Sobolik offers a sober look at the challenge China poses to the West and offers a strategy to guide America’s response.  

Sobolik is an expert in the American and Chinese grand strategy, regional economic and security trends, America’s alliance architecture in Asia and human rights. He served as a Legislative Assistant in the United States Senate, drafting legislation on China, Russia, India, Taiwan, North Korea, Cambodia, and strategic systems and missile defense from 2014 to 2019. He has been serving as a Senior Fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies for the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) since 2019. Sobolik hosts “Great Power Podcast,” AFPC’s show about great power competition and U.S.-China relations. He is also the author of “Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance,” which explains China’s growing threat to the global stage.

On this episode of “Story in the Public Square,” Sobolik urges Americans to realize the imposing threat of an imperialistic Chinese Communist Party. His new book, “Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance,” offers insights on how America can counter the growing influence of the CCP. He explains, “One of the reasons I wrote this book is to try to mobilize this awareness so Americans can shift and understand that we have a threat that we can get ahead of before the crisis comes. The crisis could be Taiwan, it could be a conflagration in the South China Sea, but there is a crisis coming. And if we can get ahead of the curve and forestall it, that’s going to be safer and, frankly, less expensive for the pocketbooks of Americans. But if we continue to wait, the price of reckoning with the CCP is going to continue to go up.”

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