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The CCP vs America & The Free World Part 1: The Art of Unrestricted War (2025)

"All warfare is based on deception." — Sun Tzu's The Art of War
The CCP vs America & The Free World Part 1: The Art of Unrestricted War (2025)

Overview

For decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) convinced the world it was opening up. In reality, a 100 million-strong unelected elite has perfected a system of control that keeps one fifth of humanity — and increasingly the rest of us — in its clandestine grip.

The CCP vs America & The Free World is a groundbreaking book series that revives a forgotten truth: authoritarian regimes don’t just challenge us — they pose an existential threat. Learning from the collapse of past empires and the mistakes of the first Cold War, the CCP has refined a strategy for global domination that blends ancient stratagems with modern non-kinetic warfare: information manipulation, economic coercion and even biological and chemical weapons.

Part I: The Art of Unrestricted War connects history with today’s crises — from fentanyl and TikTok to the COVID-19 pandemic — and shows how subtle influence campaigns reshape our open societies from within.

Normalisation creep shifts our perceptions — we may not notice the larger change until it is too late, if at all.

Analogy-rich examples and pop culture references make complex ideas accessible, while evidence cuts through the CCP’s carefully cultivated opacity.

This is not just analysis — it is a call to awareness and action. By exposing how engagement with the CCP has made free societies more like them, not the other way around, the book reminds us of what unites the free world — and why we must defend it.

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