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Uh, oh. A New Enemy.

No, I haven't read the book, and I intend to avoid doing so. The author's precis of his apocalyptic, decades-long, multi-fronted conflict theory with perceived enemy China is itself sufficiently off-putting.

We can chalk it up as just another iteration of the Golden Horde thesis, a prevalent idea in American life as early as the 1850s, when it became an underpinning of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- making Chinese immigration unlawful in the U.S. until, if you can believe it, 1965.

China may be many things to the U.S., but a devil-enemy responsible for all our ills she is not. That false conception is as far-flung from reality as the imaginative indications of China's complicity in nuclear terrorism in the American television series, Jericho. And it grinds my gears to see fear-mongering spread to a public that doesn't know much better than what our "experts" attempt to teach it.

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