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"""Michael Sobolik's new book, Countering China's Great Game, provides a clear-eyed, comprehensive plan for winning the new Cold War with China and puts forward a convincing argument why that's the best--if not the only way--to avoid the hot war nobody wants. By laying out the history, character and strategy of the Chinese Communist Party, he explains how Western policies of engagement have failed and why a new strategy is urgently needed. This is required reading for anyone who wants to understand China's rising threat to the global world order.""--Josh Rogin, Washington Post ""Since his time on the Hill, Sobolik has established himself as the conscience of the conservative coalition taking on the Chinese Communist Party. With Countering China's Great Game, he emerges as a strategist. Beijing, beware!""--Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, President and CEO, Long Term Strategy Group ""Instead of treating Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative as little more than an overblown infrastructure program, Michael Sobolik's insightful new book highlights the imperial ambitions that lie behind Beijing's far-flung activities. Unlike many others who have written on the subject, Sobolik goes on the identify the BRI's key points of vulnerability and to suggest how these can be exploited to impose costs on the Communist Party regime. Recommended reading for anyone involved in the burgeoning debate over America's strategy for competing with China.""--Aaron Friedberg, author of Getting China Wrong and A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia ""In Countering China's Great Game, Michael Sobolik skillfully and persuasively describes the Chinese Communist Party's grand strategy to displace the United States. Drawing on close personal experience and a deep understanding of the Party's system and goals, he gives readers an inside look at the stakes--and how we can fight back.""--Rep. Mike Gallagher, Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party ""The threat from China represents America's worst national security crisis in decades. Michael Sobolik presents a sober strategy to put the tyrants in Beijing on their heels and ensure the 21st century is an American century. This a serious read from a serious scholar. And I hope all Americans with a stake in U.S. national security read and heed his findings.""--Morgan Ortagus, former State Department spokesperson ""How should America handle the challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party? In this fascinating new book, scholar Michael Sobolik carefully lays out strategies to understand and ethically push back against Beijing. It's a book well worth reading."" --Isaac Stone Fish, author of America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger"

"Michael Sobolik’s new book, Countering China’s Great Game, provides a clear-eyed, comprehensive plan for winning the new Cold War with China and puts forward a convincing argument why that’s the best—if not the only way—to avoid the hot war nobody wants. By laying out the history, character and strategy of the Chinese Communist Party, he explains how Western policies of engagement have failed and why a new strategy is urgently needed. This is required reading for anyone who wants to understand China’s rising threat to the global world order.""—Josh Rogin, Washington Post    ""Since his time on the Hill, Sobolik has established himself as the conscience of the conservative coalition taking on the Chinese Communist Party. With Countering China’s Great Game, he emerges as a strategist. Beijing, beware!""—Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, President and CEO, Long Term Strategy Group   ""Instead of treating Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative as little more than an overblown infrastructure program, Michael Sobolik’s insightful new book highlights the imperial ambitions that lie behind Beijing’s far-flung activities. Unlike many others who have written on the subject, Sobolik goes on the identify the BRI’s key points of vulnerability and to suggest how these can be exploited to impose costs on the Communist Party regime. Recommended reading for anyone involved in the burgeoning debate over America’s strategy for competing with China.""—Aaron Friedberg, author of Getting China Wrong and A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia “In Countering China’s Great Game, Michael Sobolik skillfully and persuasively describes the Chinese Communist Party’s grand strategy to displace the United States. Drawing on close personal experience and a deep understanding of the Party’s system and goals, he gives readers an inside look at the stakes—and how we can fight back.”—Rep.  Mike Gallagher, Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party   ""The threat from China represents America's worst national security crisis in decades. Michael Sobolik presents a sober strategy to put the tyrants in Beijing on their heels and ensure the 21st century is an American century. This a serious read from a serious scholar. And I hope all Americans with a stake in U.S. national security read and heed his findings.""—Morgan Ortagus, former State Department spokesperson   ""How should America handle the challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party? In this fascinating new book, scholar Michael Sobolik carefully lays out strategies to understand and ethically push back against Beijing. It's a book well worth reading."" —Isaac Stone Fish, author of America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger"

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Michael Sobolik is a Senior Fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). Previously, he was a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. Sobolik's work at AFPC covers American and Chinese grand strategy, regional economic and security trends, America’s alliance architecture in Asia, and human rights. His analysis has appeared in Foreign Policy, Newsweek, The Dispatch, Jane’s Defence Weekly, National Review, and RealClearDefense, among others. Sobolik lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Chelsea and their son Dev.

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