Black Swans and Stealth War Mark US–China Relations, Expert Says

Black Swans and Stealth War Mark US–China Relations, Expert Says
A health worker checks the temperature of women entering the subway, screening for possible coronavirus cases, in Beijing, China, on Jan. 26, 2020. Betsy Joles/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—The United States faces a stealth war in which a fascist regime turns the openness of the West’s institutions against it.

This was the diagnosis of the threat posed by China, from retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert S. Spalding, a former China strategist who spoke at the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) on Feb. 12. Spalding is the author of the recently released “Stealth War, How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept.”